Heritage route
Chiemsee-Bahn
Prien → Prien-Stock · Germany
Chiemsee-Bahn in pictures
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- Distance
- 2 km
- Fastest time
- 10 min
- Average speed
- 12 km/h
- Top speed
- 20 km/h
- Operator
- Chiemsee-Bahn
- Train
- 1887 Krauss steam tram
- Countries
- Germany
- In service since
- 1887
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The world’s oldest steam tram still in service, an 1887 green Krauss engine that shuttles down to the Chiemsee jetty for the boat to Ludwig II’s island palace.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 3227661 — 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 Transitous: our line sits 0.1 km from the shape of Chiemseebahn
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Read more on Wikipedia (in DE) ↗
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