Classic route
Gotha–Leinefelde railway
Gotha → Leinefelde · Germany
- Distance
- 67 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 42 min
- Average speed
- 96 km/h
- Top speed
- 160 km/h
- Operator
- DB Regio
- Train
- RE 1
- Countries
- Germany
- In service since
- 1870
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Forty two minutes across the Thuringian Basin through Bad Langensalza and Mühlhausen, opened in 1870 and now rebuilt for 160 km/h.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 4034298 — 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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