Classic route
Almtalbahn
Wels → Grünau im Almtal · Austria
Wels built it to keep the Almtal from Lambach: the branch from Sattledt opened in 1901, owned by a local company until 1942 and run by the state railway from the first day.
- Distance
- 42 km
- Fastest time
- 1 h 5 min
- Average speed
- 39 km/h
Stations
- 0 kmWels Hauptbahnhof +3
- 2 kmWels Lokalbahn
- 2 kmWels Messe
- 4 kmSchauersberg
- 6 kmSteinhaus bei Wels
- 9 kmOberhart
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- 11 kmUnterhart
- 13 kmSattledt
- 17 kmGroßendorf
- 20 kmWiesmühle
- 21 kmVoitsdorf
- 25 kmWilfling
- 28 kmPettenbach
- 32 kmSteinbachbrücke
- 34 kmViechtwang
- 36 kmScharnstein-Mühldorf
- 38 kmKothmühle
- 40 kmTraxenbichl
- 43 kmGrünau im Almtal
The stations OpenStreetMap lists for this service, in order, with the distance along the line as drawn here. A train may skip some of them. A +N after a station: N other routes on this map stop or end there, and the map draws it as a station where lines meet.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 3914463: 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 3 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of R 53
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Questions and answers
How long is the Almtalbahn?
The Almtalbahn runs 42 km from Wels to Grünau im Almtal.
How long does the Almtalbahn take?
The fastest scheduled journey is 1 h 5 min for the 42 km. That is an average of 39 km/h end to end.
Who runs the Almtalbahn?
ÖBB-Personenverkehr AG, with R 53.
How old is the Almtalbahn?
The line has been in service since 1901. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.
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