Heritage route
Rübelandbahn
Blankenburg → Rübeland · Germany
Rübelandbahn in pictures
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- Distance
- 14 km
- Fastest time
- 50 min
- Average speed
- 17 km/h
- Top speed
- 50 km/h
- Operator
- ArGe Rübelandbahn
- Train
- Steam · 95 027
- Countries
- Germany
- In service since
- 1886
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Heritage steam storms a fierce Harz grade once worked by rack rail; the 1926 tank engine 95 027, the Bergkönigin, still climbs to the caves at Rübeland.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 1894768 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 96.9% of this line lies within 250 m of real track, a median 3 m from it
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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