Mountain route
Drachenfelsbahn
Königswinter → Drachenfels · Germany
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Germany’s oldest rack railway (1883) climbs 220 m in eight minutes from Königswinter past Schloss Drachenburg to the Drachenfels ruin above the Rhine — Siegfried’s dragon mountain.
Stations
- 0 kmDrachenfels
- 1 kmSchloß Drachenburg
- 1 kmKönigswinter Drachenfelsbahn
The stations OpenStreetMap lists for this service, in order, with the distance along the line as drawn here. A train may skip some of them.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 1331894 — 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 2 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.5 km from the shape of Tram 66
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
- See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it
Questions and answers
How long is the Drachenfelsbahn?
The Drachenfelsbahn runs 1.5 km from Königswinter to Drachenfels.
How long does the Drachenfelsbahn take?
The fastest scheduled journey is 8 min for the 1.5 km. That is an average of 11 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 12 km/h.
Who runs the Drachenfelsbahn?
Bergbahnen im Siebengebirge, with rack railway.
How old is the Drachenfelsbahn?
The line has been in service since 1883. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.
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