Classic route
IC Gera–Düsseldorf
Gera → Düsseldorf · Germany
- Distance
- 532 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 6 h 05 min
- Average speed
- 87 km/h
- Top speed
- 200 km/h
- Operator
- DB Fernverkehr
- Train
- DB IC coaches
- Countries
- Germany
- In service since
- 1876
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
East Thuringia to the Rhine: Gera and Jena, Erfurt and Eisenach under the Wartburg, then Kassel, the Ruhr and Düsseldorf.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 9264573 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 67 m of them
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Deutsche Bahn — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
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