Classic route
Halle–Halberstadt railway
Halle → Halberstadt · Germany
- Distance
- 92 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 1 h 11 min
- Average speed
- 78 km/h
- Top speed
- 160 km/h
- Operator
- Start Mitteldeutschland
- Train
- RE 4 · Regional-Express
- Countries
- Germany
- In service since
- 1872
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The Halle end of the line that reached Vienenburg in 1872, ninety two kilometres by Könnern, Sandersleben and Aschersleben to Halberstadt on the northern edge of the Harz.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 5700563 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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