Classic route
RE 5 Cuxhaven–Hamburg
Cuxhaven → Hamburg · Germany
Along the lower Elbe from the North Sea port of Cuxhaven by Otterndorf, Stade and Buxtehude to Harburg and over the river into Hamburg; the railway reached Cuxhaven in 1881.
- Distance
- 115 km
- Fastest time
- 1 h 47 min
- Average speed
- 64 km/h
Stations
- 0 kmCuxhaven
- 14 kmOtterndorf
- 26 kmCadenberge
- 30 kmWingst
- 38 kmHemmoor
- 44 kmHechthausen
- 50 kmHimmelpforten
- 54 kmHammah
- 62 kmStade
- 74 kmHorneburg
- 82 kmBuxtehude
- 103 kmHamburg-Harburg +2
- 115 kmHamburg Hauptbahnhof +8
The stations OpenStreetMap lists for a train that runs this route end to end, in order, with the distance along the line as drawn here. A train may skip some of them. A +N after a station: N other routes on this map stop or end there, and the map draws it as a station where lines meet.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 5576544: 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 RE5
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Questions and answers
How long is the RE 5 Cuxhaven–Hamburg?
The RE 5 Cuxhaven–Hamburg runs 115 km from Cuxhaven to Hamburg.
How long does the RE 5 Cuxhaven–Hamburg take?
The fastest scheduled journey is 1 h 47 min for the 115 km. That is an average of 64 km/h end to end.
Who runs the RE 5 Cuxhaven–Hamburg?
start Unterelbe, with RE 5.
How old is the RE 5 Cuxhaven–Hamburg?
The line has been in service since 1881. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.
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