Classic route
Lemvigbanen
Vemb → Thyborøn · Denmark
- Distance
- 56 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 1 h 20 min
- Average speed
- 42 km/h
- Operator
- Midtjyske Jernbaner
- Train
- Midtjyske Jernbaner
- Countries
- Denmark
- In service since
- 1899
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
A Danish local line that never belonged to the state: Vemb to the fishing port of Thyborøn by Lemvig and Harboøre, finished on 1 November 1899 and still privately run.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 6844899 — 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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