Heritage route
Chemin de Fer du Bocq
Ciney → Yvoir · Belgium
Chemin de Fer du Bocq in pictures
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- Distance
- 21 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 1 h 15 min
- Average speed
- 17 km/h
- Top speed
- 40 km/h
- Operator
- Patrimoine Ferroviaire et Tourisme
- Train
- Vintage SNCB railcar · heritage diesel locomotives
- Countries
- Belgium
- In service since
- 1907
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Three tunnels and five stone viaducts pack into the Bocq valley on one of Belgium’s most dramatically engineered branch lines.
How this line was checked
- The 15 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 3775745 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 78.6% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 4 m); the longest stretch away from it is 4 km
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Patrimoine Ferroviaire et Tourisme — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Read more on Wikipedia (in FR) ↗
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