Classic route
TER
Luxembourg → Longwy · Luxembourg · France
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- Distance
- 28 km
- Fastest time
- 37 min
- Average speed
- 45 km/h
- Top speed
- 140 km/h
- Operator
- CFL / SNCF
- Train
- CFL Class 2200
- Countries
- Luxembourg, France
- In service since
- 1880
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A short cross-border hop from Luxembourg’s Ville-Haute down to the old French steel town of Longwy, one of the busiest daily commuter runs into the Grand Duchy.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 20663428 — 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 RE 86556 (Zug-Nr. 86556)
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