Classic route
Summerauerbahn
České Budějovice → Linz · Czechia · Austria
- Distance
- 125 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 2 h 20 min
- Average speed
- 54 km/h
- Top speed
- 100 km/h
- Operator
- ČD · ÖBB
- Train
- ČD · ÖBB cross-border regional
- Countries
- Czechia, Austria
- In service since
- 1873
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The Summerauerbahn: out of Budweis, over the granite hills where Europe’s first horse-drawn railway ran, down the Mühlviertel to the Danube at Linz.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from 2 OpenStreetMap relations, their own nodes end to end: relation 48871 (63 km), relation 3860431 (67 km) — 125 km of the route between them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 8 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: ÖBB Scotty — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Read more on Wikipedia (in CS) ↗
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