Heritage route
Sauschwänzlebahn (Wutach Valley Railway)
Weizen → Blumberg · Germany
Sauschwänzlebahn (Wutach Valley Railway) in pictures
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- Distance
- 26.5 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 1 h 15 min
- Average speed
- 21 km/h
- Top speed
- 50 km/h
- Operator
- Sauschwänzlebahn e.V.
- Train
- Class 52 / 93 steam locomotive · heritage diesel railcars
- Countries
- Germany
- In service since
- 1890
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Germany’s only spiral railway tunnel: a 1,700 m loop at Stockhalde lets the line climb the Black Forest by circling back over itself.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 1858164 — 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
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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