🇩🇪 Operator
Train routes operated by Harzer Schmalspurbahnen
3 routes · heritage 3
Harzer Schmalspurbahnen runs 3 of the routes in the World Train Map atlas, 115 km of railway across 1 country. The longest is the Harzquerbahn at 46 km; the fastest is the Harzquerbahn, running up to 50 km/h; the oldest line it runs over here opened in 1887.
The company itself dates to 1993, filed on Wikidata as a transport company. What this page says about the company comes from Harzer Schmalspurbahnen's own Wikidata item, checked against the countries its routes here actually cross before any of it is used; everything about the railway is counted from this atlas. Official site ↗ · Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata Q481535 ↗
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- 3
- Total length
- 115 km
- Countries
- Germany
- Fastest
- Harzquerbahn · 50 km/h
- Longest
- Harzquerbahn · 46 km
- Oldest line here
- 1887
- Company founded
- 1993
- Type
- transport company
Heritage (3)
- Harzquerbahn
HSB’s metre-gauge trunk across the Harz: 2-10-2 tank engines storm out of Nordhausen up the Zorge valley to Drei Annen Hohne, the junction where the Brocken steam begins.
Wikipedia ↗ - Selketalbahn (Harz Narrow Gauge)
Metre-gauge Mallet steam locomotives still double-head trains out of Alexisbad on this Harz valley line, opened for timber and ore in 1887.
Wikipedia ↗ - Brockenbahn
Metre-gauge steam still storms year-round to the 1,141 m Brocken. Goethe’s witches’ mountain, sealed off as a Soviet listening post until 1989.
Wikipedia ↗
Photos via Wikimedia Commons — each route page credits the author & licence
How many train routes does Harzer Schmalspurbahnen run?
3 of the routes in this atlas are Harzer Schmalspurbahnen services, covering 115 km across 1 country (Germany). That is what this atlas draws, not the operator's whole network — a national railway runs thousands of local services no map of notable journeys would list.
What is the fastest Harzer Schmalspurbahnen train?
The Harzquerbahn, Nordhausen to Drei Annen Hohne, at up to 50 km/h. Its fastest scheduled run takes 2 h over 46 km.
Does Harzer Schmalspurbahnen run night trains?
Not in this atlas. All 3 Harzer Schmalspurbahnen routes listed here are daytime services.
When was Harzer Schmalspurbahnen founded?
Wikidata records the company's inception as 1993, and files it as a transport company. The oldest railway it runs over in this atlas opened in 1887 — the line and the company are rarely the same age, and this page dates both.
Countries Harzer Schmalspurbahnen runs in
- 🇩🇪 Train routes in Germany 115 routes
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