Classic route
Hohenlohebahn
Crailsheim → Heilbronn · Germany
- Distance
- 88 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 1 h 14 min
- Average speed
- 71 km/h
- Operator
- Westfrankenbahn
- Train
- RE 80
- Countries
- Germany
- In service since
- 1867
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Up the Kocher from Heilbronn through Schwäbisch Hall to Crailsheim; the first half opened in August 1862 and the rest waited until 10 December 1867.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 146366 — 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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