Scenic route
Istrian Line
Pula → Buzet · Croatia
- Distance
- 86 km
- Fastest time
- 2 h 30 min
- Average speed
- 34 km/h
- Operator
- HŽ Putnički prijevoz
- Train
- HŽ regional
- Countries
- Croatia
- In service since
- 1876
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The length of Istria at a walking pace, Pula to Buzet in two and a half hours through the red earth and the karst, on the state railway Austria opened to its naval port in September 1876.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 6317273 — 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 4 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: HŽPP timetable — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
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