Classic route
Dresden–Görlitz railway
Dresden → Görlitz · Germany
- Distance
- 105 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 1 h 25 min
- Average speed
- 74 km/h
- Top speed
- 120 km/h
- Operator
- Die Länderbahn
- Train
- RE 1 · trilex
- Countries
- Germany
- In service since
- 1847
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Saxony end to end through Bautzen and the Lusatian hills, opened in stages from November 1845 and formally complete on 1 September 1847.
How this line was checked
- The 87 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 5371288 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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