Heritage route
Rasender Roland
Putbus → Göhren · Germany
- Distance
- 24 km
- Fastest time
- 1 h 6 min
- Average speed
- 22 km/h
- Top speed
- 30 km/h
- Operator
- Rügensche BäderBahn
- Train
- Steam · 750 mm
- Countries
- Germany
- In service since
- 1895
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Nicknamed the Racing Roland, this 750 mm-gauge steam railway has linked Rügen’s white-sand Baltic resorts of Binz, Sellin and Göhren since 1895.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 61934 — 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 RB32 (Zug-Nr. 101)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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