Classic route
Oldenburg–Osnabrück railway
Oldenburg → Osnabrück · Germany
- Distance
- 108 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 1 h 29 min
- Average speed
- 73 km/h
- Top speed
- 120 km/h
- Operator
- NordWestBahn
- Train
- RE 18 · Regional-Express
- Countries
- Germany
- In service since
- 1876
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Across the Oldenburg moors and the Artland by Cloppenburg and Quakenbrück; opened as far as Quakenbrück in October 1875 and through to Osnabrück on 15 November 1876.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 2548857 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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