Scenic route
Lutterbach–Kruth line
Lutterbach → Kruth · France
- Distance
- 32 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 54 min
- Average speed
- 36 km/h
- Operator
- SNCF
- Train
- TER · Tram-train
- Countries
- France
- In service since
- 1839
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Up the Thur valley from Mulhouse through Thann to Kruth in the high Vosges, worked by SNCF trains and the Mulhouse tram-train together.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 2525972 — 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 0.5 km from the shape of TER83275 (Zug-Nr. 83275)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Read more on Wikipedia (in FR) ↗
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