Classic route
Heath Railway
Buchholz → Hannover · Germany
Heath Railway in pictures
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- Distance
- 133 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 1 h 58 min
- Average speed
- 68 km/h
- Top speed
- 120 km/h
- Operator
- Start Niedersachsen-Mitte
- Train
- RB 38 · Regionalbahn
- Countries
- Germany
- In service since
- 1896
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The Heidebahn crosses the Lüneburg Heath from Hanover to Buchholz — single track, no wires, and one of only two railways of any weight on the heath.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 326153 — 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 3 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 1.2 km from the shape of RB38 (Zug-Nr. 14409)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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