Classic route
Kiskunhalas–Kiskunfélegyháza railway
Kiskunfélegyháza → Kiskunhalas · Hungary
- Distance
- 45 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 49 min
- Average speed
- 55 km/h
- Top speed
- 100 km/h
- Operator
- MÁV
- Train
- MÁV regional
- Countries
- Hungary
- In service since
- 1912
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Line 155 across the sandy Kiskunság between two market towns of the Great Plain, opened in 1912.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 20507237 — 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 3 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of IR 17807
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Read more on Wikipedia (in HU) ↗
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