Heritage route
Lennakatten
Uppsala → Faringe · Sweden
- Distance
- 33 km
- Fastest time
- 1 h 40 min
- Average speed
- 20 km/h
- Top speed
- 50 km/h
- Operator
- Upsala–Lenna Jernväg
- Train
- Heritage steam · 891 mm
- Countries
- Sweden
- In service since
- 1876
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Steam from the edge of a university city: the 891 mm Lennakatten rolls 33 km through Uppland forests and lakeside summer halts to the engine sheds at Faringe.
How this line was checked
- The 20 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 18702392 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 81.5% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 8 m); the longest stretch away from it is 3 km
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: the railway’s own site — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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