Scenic route
Pinzgauer Lokalbahn
Zell am See → Krimml · Austria
Pinzgauer Lokalbahn in pictures
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- Distance
- 53 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 1 h 45 min
- Average speed
- 30 km/h
- Top speed
- 50 km/h
- Operator
- Pinzgauer Lokalbahn (Salzburg AG)
- Train
- Narrow-gauge diesel railcar · steam train (Wed/Thu)
- Countries
- Austria
- In service since
- 1898
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
A 760 mm-gauge valley line follows the Salzach past Hohe Tauern peaks to Krimml, ending beneath Austria’s highest waterfall.
How this line was checked
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 99% of this line lies within 250 m of real track, a median 31 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.1 km from the shape of R 3306 (Zug-Nr. 3306)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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