Heritage route
Brohltalbahn
Brohl → Engeln · Germany
- Distance
- 18 km
- Fastest time
- 1 h 30 min
- Average speed
- 12 km/h
- Top speed
- 20 km/h
- Operator
- Brohltal-Schmalspureisenbahn
- Train
- Vulkan-Expreß · 1000 mm
- Countries
- Germany
- In service since
- 1901
- Riders per year
- ≈ 70k
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The Vulkan-Expreß ambles at Tempo 20 from the Rhine at Brohl 400 m up into the volcanic Eifel, on metre gauge laid in 1901 to carry the region’s tuff and phonolite.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 3954076 — 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 0.2 km from the shape of P (Zug-Nr. 103)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Read more on Wikipedia (in DE) ↗
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