Classic route
S41
Verviers → Hasselt · Belgium
From Verviers down the Vesdre valley to Liège, north by Herstal and Liers, then over the curve at Glons, laid in 1973 to join the line the German army built in 1917, for Tongeren and Hasselt.
- Distance
- 78 km
- Fastest time
- 1 h 38 min
- Average speed
- 48 km/h
Stations
- 0 kmVerviers-Central +1
- 4 kmPepinster
- 9 kmNessonvaux
- 11 kmFraipont
- 14 kmTrooz
- 17 kmChaudfontaine
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- 20 kmChênée
- 22 kmAngleur +1
- 25 kmLiège-Guillemins +6
- 26 kmLiège-Carré
- 27 kmLiège-Saint-Lambert
- 32 kmHerstal
- 36 kmMilmort
- 39 kmLiers
- 46 kmGlons
- 52 kmTongeren
- 62 kmBilzen
- 71 kmDiepenbeek
- 78 kmHasselt +1
The stations OpenStreetMap lists for this service, in order, with the distance along the line as drawn here. A train may skip some of them. A +N after a station: N other routes on this map stop or end there, and the map draws it as a station where lines meet.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 19905039: 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 4 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of R 5380
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Questions and answers
How long is the S41?
The S41 runs 78 km from Verviers to Hasselt.
How long does the S41 take?
The fastest scheduled journey is 1 h 38 min for the 78 km. That is an average of 48 km/h end to end.
Who runs the S41?
SNCB.
How old is the S41?
The line has been in service since 1973. 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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