Classic route
Saalbahn
Jena → Saalfeld · Germany
- Distance
- 47 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 42 min
- Average speed
- 67 km/h
- Top speed
- 120 km/h
- Operator
- Abellio Rail Mitteldeutschland
- Train
- RB 25
- Countries
- Germany
- In service since
- 1874
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
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.
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
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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