Mountain route
Drachenfelsbahn
Königswinter → Drachenfels · Germany
Drachenfelsbahn in pictures
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- Distance
- 1.5 km
- Fastest time
- 8 min
- Average speed
- 11 km/h
- Top speed
- 12 km/h
- Operator
- Bergbahnen im Siebengebirge
- Train
- Rack railway
- Countries
- Germany
- In service since
- 1883
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
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.
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
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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