Classic route
Neumarkt-Sankt Veit–Landshut railway
Neumarkt-Sankt Veit → Landshut · Germany
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Neumarkt-Sankt Veit–Landshut railway in pictures
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- Distance
- 38 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 42 min
- Average speed
- 54 km/h
- Top speed
- 120 km/h
- Operator
- Südostbayernbahn
- Train
- RB 45 · Regionalbahn
- Countries
- Germany
- In service since
- 1883
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Single track and unelectrified down the Vils valley from Neumarkt-Sankt Veit to the Isar at Landshut, open since 1883.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 8350533 — 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 RB44 (Zug-Nr. 27112)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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