Classic route
Main-Weser Railway
Frankfurt → Kassel · Germany
- Distance
- 199 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 2 h 16 min
- Average speed
- 88 km/h
- Top speed
- 160 km/h
- Operator
- DB Regio
- Train
- RE 30 · Main-Weser-Express
- Countries
- Germany
- In service since
- 1852
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
One of Germany’s first trunk railways, opened in stages between 1849 and 1852 through Gießen and Marburg; its 160 km/h ceiling is only reachable on the southern half.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 2535006 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Deutsche Bahn — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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