Scenic route
Bastia–Calvi
Bastia → Calvi · France
- Distance
- 119 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 3 h
- Average speed
- 40 km/h
- Top speed
- 80 km/h
- Operator
- CFC
- Train
- AMG 800 railcar
- Countries
- France
- In service since
- 1890
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The Trinighellu’s Balagne arm: inland from Bastia to Ponte-Leccia, then down to a beach-hugging crawl from Île-Rousse to Calvi’s citadel.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 5893799 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 31 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 9 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Chemins de fer de la Corse — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
More scenic routes
- Glacier Express
“The world’s slowest express”: 291 bridges, 91 tunnels and the 2,033 m Oberalp Pass at an average of 36 km/h.
Wikipedia ↗ - Bernina Express
A UNESCO World Heritage railway: 7 % grades with no rack, the Brusio spiral, and the highest rail crossing of the Alps at 2,253 m.
Wikipedia ↗ - Bergensbanen
Northern Europe’s highest main line: over the bare Hardangervidda plateau at 1,237 m, through 182 tunnels.
Wikipedia ↗ - West Highland Line
Regularly voted the world’s most scenic railway: around Rannoch Moor and over the 21-arch Glenfinnan Viaduct of film fame.
Wikipedia ↗
More train routes in France.