Classic route
Maaslijn
Nijmegen → Roermond · Netherlands
- Distance
- 84 km
- Fastest time
- 1 h 18 min
- Average speed
- 65 km/h
- Operator
- Arriva
- Train
- Stadler GTW / Alstom LINT
- Countries
- Netherlands
- In service since
- 1883
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The Meuse line, Nijmegen to Roermond down the east bank in an hour and eighteen minutes, the one long Dutch railway that runs north to south rather than in and out of the Randstad.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 188611 — 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
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