Heritage route
Kandertalbahn
Haltingen → Kandern · Germany
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Sunday steam up the Kandertal from the Rhine plain at Haltingen to Kandern, the 1895 branch kept running by the society that saved it.
Stations
- 0 kmKandern
- 3 kmHammerstein
- 6 kmWollbach (Baden)
- 7 kmWittlingen
- 9 kmRümmingen
- 10 kmBinzen
- 13 kmHaltingen KTB
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.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 4589061 — 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
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Questions and answers
How long is the Kandertalbahn?
The Kandertalbahn runs 13 km from Haltingen to Kandern.
How long does the Kandertalbahn take?
The fastest scheduled journey is ≈ 36 min for the 13 km. That is an average of 22 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 40 km/h.
Who runs the Kandertalbahn?
Kandertalbahn e.V., with steam Lok 7, V7 diesel locomotive.
How old is the Kandertalbahn?
The line has been in service since 1895. 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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