Scenic route
Rittner Bahn
Soprabolzano → Collalbo · Italy
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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.
Stations
- 0 kmHimmelfahrt - L'Assunta
- 0 kmLinzbach
- 1 kmRinner
- 2 kmLichtenstern - Stella
- 2 kmRappersbichl - Colle Renon
- 3 kmEbenhof
- 3 kmWeidacher
- 4 kmKlobenstein - Collalbo
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.
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
Questions and answers
How long is the Rittner Bahn?
The Rittner Bahn runs 7 km from Soprabolzano to Collalbo.
How long does the Rittner Bahn take?
The fastest scheduled journey is 18 min for the 7 km. That is an average of 23 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 30 km/h.
Who runs the Rittner Bahn?
SAD, with Esslingen tramcar.
How old is the Rittner Bahn?
The line has been in service since 1907. 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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