Scenic route
Carinthian Line
Bleiburg → Maribor · Austria · Slovenia
- Distance
- 87 km
- Fastest time
- 2 h 01 min
- Average speed
- 43 km/h
- Operator
- SŽ
- Train
- SŽ regional
- Countries
- Austria, Slovenia
- In service since
- 1863
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Over the border at Holmec and down the Drava through the old ironworks valleys, Prevalje, Ravne and Dravograd, on a single track built between 1857 and 1863 to carry Carinthian steel out to the world.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 17270852 — 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
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