Heritage route
Mariager–Handest Veteranjernbane
Mariager → Handest · Denmark
Mariager–Handest Veteranjernbane in pictures
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- Distance
- 17 km
- Fastest time
- 50 min
- Average speed
- 20 km/h
- Top speed
- 45 km/h
- Operator
- MHVJ
- Train
- Heritage steam & railcars
- Countries
- Denmark
- In service since
- 1927
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Denmark’s leading veteran railway: 1909 Henschel steam from the fjord port of Mariager over rolling moraine hills to Handest, run in 1950s private-railway style.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 7365158 — 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
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Read more on Wikipedia (in DA) ↗
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