Scenic route
Glarus Line
Linthal → Ziegelbrücke · Switzerland
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- Distance
- 27 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 49 min
- Average speed
- 33 km/h
- Operator
- SBB
- Train
- S 25
- Countries
- Switzerland
- In service since
- 1859
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The Glarnerlinie of 1859, single track up the Linth valley under the Glärnisch and the Tödi to the road-head at Linthal.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 4094899 — 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 4 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.2 km from the shape of Bus EV1
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Read more on Wikipedia (in DE) ↗
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