Classic route
Lübeck–Lüneburg railway
Lüneburg → Lübeck · Germany
Lübeck–Lüneburg railway in pictures
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- Distance
- 78 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 1 h 10 min
- Average speed
- 67 km/h
- Top speed
- 120 km/h
- Operator
- erixx
- Train
- RE 83 · Regional-Express
- Countries
- Germany
- In service since
- 1851
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Single track, unelectrified, opened in sections between 1851 and 1864 — one of Germany's oldest railways, from the Elbe salt town to the Baltic.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 67427 — 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 5 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of RE83 (Zug-Nr. 21148)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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