Heritage route
Bregenzerwaldbahn (Wälderbähnle)
Bezau → Schwarzenberg · Austria
- Distance
- 5 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 20 min
- Average speed
- 15 km/h
- Operator
- Verein Bregenzerwaldbahn
- Train
- Steam and diesel museum trains
- Countries
- Austria
- In service since
- 1902
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
All that is left of the 760 mm line to Bregenz: five kilometres of the Wälderbähnle between Bezau and Schwarzenberg, worked by steam and diesel through the Bregenzerwald on summer weekends.
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