Scenic route
Rittner Bahn
Soprabolzano → Collalbo · Italy
Rittner Bahn in pictures
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- Distance
- 7 km
- Fastest time
- 18 min
- Average speed
- 23 km/h
- Top speed
- 30 km/h
- Operator
- SAD
- Train
- Esslingen tramcar
- Countries
- Italy
- In service since
- 1907
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
A metre-gauge survivor of a 1907 rack railway, its vintage tramcars glide across the sunny Renon plateau above Bolzano, the Dolomites on the horizon.
How this line was checked
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 52% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 249 m); the longest stretch away from it is 2.1 km
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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