Classic route
Kinnekullebanan
Håkantorp → Gårdsjö · Sweden
- Distance
- 122 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 2 h 01 min
- Average speed
- 60 km/h
- Operator
- Västtrafik
- Train
- Kinnekulletaget
- Countries
- Sweden
- In service since
- 1910
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Four small railways stitched round the flat-topped hill of Kinnekulle by Lidköping and Mariestad, the last piece laid in 1910 and the whole of it regauged to standard by 1953.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 36433 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Read more on Wikipedia (in SV) ↗
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