Classic route
Frankenwaldbahn
Hochstadt-Marktzeuln → Probstzella · Germany
- Distance
- 54 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 45 min
- Average speed
- 72 km/h
- Operator
- DB Regio
- Train
- RE 14
- Countries
- Germany
- In service since
- 1885
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The climb over the Frankenwald from the Main valley to the Thuringian border at Probstzella by Kronach and Ludwigsstadt, finished in October 1885 and steep enough to need banking engines.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 7734952 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Deutsche Bahn — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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