Classic route
Gäubahn IC
Zurich → Stuttgart · Switzerland · Germany
Gäubahn IC in pictures
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- Distance
- 240 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 3 h 05 min
- Average speed
- 78 km/h
- Top speed
- 160 km/h
- Operator
- SBB · DB
- Train
- SBB IC · DB
- Countries
- Switzerland, Germany
- In service since
- 1879
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The Gäubahn intercity: over the Rhine at Schaffhausen, past the Bodensee’s back country and down the Neckar cuttings into Stuttgart.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from 2 OpenStreetMap relations, their own nodes end to end: relation 1620985 (51 km), relation 12063 (169 km) — 220 km of the route between them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 16 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of IC 282
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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