Classic route
Olten–Lucerne railway
Lucerne → Olten · Switzerland
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- Distance
- 55 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 45 min
- Average speed
- 73 km/h
- Top speed
- 160 km/h
- Operator
- Südostbahn
- Train
- IR 26 · InterRegio
- Countries
- Switzerland
- In service since
- 1856
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Built by the Schweizerische Centralbahn and open to Lucerne since 1856 — double track, electrified, and still the fast way north to Olten and Basel.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 18422995 — 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 under 100 m from the shape of RE 24 (Zug-Nr. 4710)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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