Morocco's Al Boraq line, launched in November 2018, cut the journey between Casablanca and Tangier from four hours and forty-five minutes to two hours and ten minutes, making it Africa's first high-speed railway and the continent's sole service exceeding three hundred kilometres per hour. The French-built trainsets, adapted from the TGV Euroduplex platform, reach three twenty on dedicated track between Kenitra and Tangier, threading the Rif foothills and Gharb plain in a seamless ribbon of welded rail. Casablanca to Tangier train tickets grant access to a fleet that moves more than six million passengers annually, linking the economic capital's Casa Voyageurs terminus with Tangier Ville station in the city's colonial quarter, a few blocks uphill from the medina gate. The service runs seventeen times daily, departures spaced from early morning through late evening, every slot bookable weeks in advance through ONCF's digital platform or at station counters. First-class carriages offer reclining leather seats, power outlets, and onboard Wi-Fi; second class maintains the same speed and punctuality at a lower fare. The route itself unspools a cross-section of northern Morocco: the phosphate conveyor gantries south of Kenitra, the eucalyptus windbreaks of the Gharb, the sudden climb into the pre-Rif where the train slows through older track, then the long descent toward the Strait, Tangier's white apartment blocks appearing above the final curve. Reserved seating eliminates the crush common on older intercity services, and the climate-controlled cabins hold a steady twenty-two degrees year-round. Tangier, once the nexus of international diplomacy and contraband art, now anchors Morocco's northern industrial corridor, its port handling container traffic bound for Europe and West Africa. The medina's labyrinth, the Kasbah's whitewashed ramparts, and the clifftop cafés overlooking the Strait retain the city's layered identity—Phoenician, Roman, Portuguese, Spanish, French, and finally Moroccan after independence in 1956. The train deposits visitors within walking distance of the Grand Socco, the American Legation Museum, and the seafront Corniche, positioning Tangier as both a day-trip destination and a gateway to Chefchaouen, Asilah, and the Rif villages. The rail link has doubled hotel occupancy in Tangier's ville nouvelle and spurred a wave of boutique restorations in the medina's upper quarter, where riads now offer rooftop views across the Strait to the Spanish coast, fourteen kilometres north and visible on clear mornings.