Heritage route
Gulbene–Alūksne Narrow Gauge Railway (Bānītis)
Gulbene → Alūksne · Latvia
Gulbene–Alūksne Narrow Gauge Railway (Bānītis) in pictures
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- Distance
- 33 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 1 h 30 min
- Average speed
- 22 km/h
- Top speed
- 25 km/h
- Operator
- Gulbenes-Alūksnes bānītis
- Train
- TU10 diesel locomotive · vintage carriages
- Countries
- Latvia
- In service since
- 1903
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The only regularly operating narrow-gauge passenger railway left in the Baltic states, rattling twice daily through Vidzeme’s forests.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 3942748 — 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 1 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via Transitous: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of 692
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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