Classic route
Rostock–Tessin railway
Tessin → Rostock · Germany
Rostock–Tessin railway in pictures
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- Distance
- 27 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 46 min
- Average speed
- 35 km/h
- Top speed
- 80 km/h
- Operator
- DB Regio
- Train
- RB 11 · Regionalbahn
- Countries
- Germany
- In service since
- 1895
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
What is left of the 1895 branch east of Rostock: trains still run to Tessin, while the track on to Tribsees has been lifted.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 56971 — 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 6 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via Transitous: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of RB11 (13116)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Read more on Wikipedia (in DE) ↗
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