Scenic route
Gleichenberger Bahn
Bad Gleichenberg → Feldbach · Austria
- Distance
- 21 km
- Fastest time
- 38 min
- Average speed
- 33 km/h
- Operator
- Steiermarkbahn
- Train
- Steiermarkbahn railcar
- Countries
- Austria
- In service since
- 1931
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Twenty one kilometres of Styrian light railway from the spa at Bad Gleichenberg down to the main line at Feldbach, opened in the presence of the President of Austria in June 1931.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 1659880 — 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
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