Saalbahn

Forty two minutes up the Saale gorge from Jena by Kahla, Orlamünde and Rudolstadt, on a line opened through to Saalfeld on 30 April 1874.

The Saalbahn is a 153 km double-track main line electrified at 15 kV, joining the Thuringian Railway at Großheringen near Naumburg to the Frankenwaldbahn at Saalfeld, and forming part of the north–south trunk from Munich and Nuremberg to Halle, Leipzig and Berlin. This card takes the 47 km of it between Jena and Saalfeld.

Stations

1. 0 kmJena Paradies
2. 5 kmJena-Göschwitz +1
3. 9 kmRothenstein (Saale)
4. 15 kmKahla
5. 20 kmOrlamünde
6. 24 kmZeutsch
7. 28 kmUhlstädt
8. 37 kmRudolstadt (Thür)
9. 41 kmRudolstadt-Schwarza
10. 47 kmSaalfeld (Saale)

The stations on this line, as Wikidata lists them, in order along the line as drawn here, with the distance along it. Not every train stops at every station. A +N after a station: N other routes on this map stop or end there, and the map draws it as a station where lines meet.

How this line was checked

• Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 6031388: 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 5 m from it
• Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of RE 14
• Wikipedia has an article for this line
• See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it

Questions and answers

How long is the Saalbahn?

The Saalbahn runs 47 km from Jena to Saalfeld.

How long does the Saalbahn take?

The fastest scheduled journey is ≈ 42 min for the 47 km. That is an average of 67 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 120 km/h.

Who runs the Saalbahn?

Abellio Rail Mitteldeutschland, with RB 25.

How old is the Saalbahn?

The line has been in service since 1874. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.

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