Scenic route
Rudolfsbahn
Amstetten → Selzthal · Austria
- Distance
- 119 km
- Fastest time
- 2 h 05 min
- Average speed
- 57 km/h
- Train
- ÖBB regional
- Countries
- Austria
- In service since
- 1873
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Through the Gesäuse on the old Kronprinz Rudolf line, Amstetten to Selzthal in two hours and five by Waidhofen and Hieflau. One train on Saturdays and two on Sundays; on weekdays you change.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 1877502 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 31 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 9 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: ÖBB Scotty — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
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