Classic route
Aachen–Mönchengladbach railway
Mönchengladbach → Aachen · Germany
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Aachen–Mönchengladbach railway in pictures
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- Distance
- 62 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 50 min
- Average speed
- 74 km/h
- Top speed
- 160 km/h
- Operator
- National Express
- Train
- RE 4 · Regional-Express
- Countries
- Germany
- In service since
- 1852
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Built by the Aachen-Düsseldorf-Ruhrort company between 1852 and 1854 — one of Germany's oldest lines, and still the freight road from the Ruhr to Belgium.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 1296458 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 4 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of RE4 (Zug-Nr. 26406)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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