Classic route
Ormož–Čakovec Line
Ormož → Čakovec · Slovenia · Croatia
- Distance
- 20 km
- Fastest time
- 24 min
- Average speed
- 50 km/h
- Operator
- SŽ
- Train
- SŽ regional
- Countries
- Slovenia, Croatia
- In service since
- 1860
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Twenty kilometres from Ormož over the Drava into Croatia, on the railway opened on 24 April 1860 to join Budapest to the Vienna to Trieste main line by way of Nagykanizsa and Pragersko.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 17350456 — 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
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