Scenic route
Salzkammergutbahn
Attnang-Puchheim → Stainach-Irdning · Austria
Salzkammergutbahn in pictures
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- Distance
- 107 km
- Fastest time
- 2 h 30 min
- Average speed
- 43 km/h
- Top speed
- 90 km/h
- Operator
- ÖBB
- Train
- ÖBB Cityjet · railcar
- Countries
- Austria
- In service since
- 1877
- Runs
- every 1–2 h
- Highest point
- 792 m
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Austria’s lake district by rail: from Attnang-Puchheim along the Traunsee past the imperial spa of Bad Ischl to the shore opposite Hallstatt, the picture-postcard village mirrored in its emerald lake.
Opened in 1877 to bring summer visitors to the imperial resorts, the Salzkammergutbahn winds through the heart of Austria’s Lake District. From Attnang-Puchheim it runs the length of the Traunsee, calls at the spa town of Bad Ischl where Franz Joseph took his summers, and reaches the west shore of the Hallstättersee opposite the village of Hallstatt, whose lake-and-mountain tableau is among the most photographed in the Alps. The line ends on the Ennstal watershed at Stainach-Irdning.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 1658658 — 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 0.1 km from the shape of REX 70 (Zug-Nr. 3406)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Along the way
- Traunsee shoreline at Gmunden
- Bad Ischl imperial spa
- Hallstättersee
- Hallstatt village across the lake
- Koppental toward Bad Aussee
- Ennstal at Stainach
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