Classic route
Šibenik Line
Šibenik → Knin · Croatia
- Distance
- 75 km
- Fastest time
- 1 h 57 min
- Average speed
- 38 km/h
- Operator
- HŽ Putnički prijevoz
- Train
- HŽ regional
- Countries
- Croatia
- In service since
- 1877
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Up from the Adriatic into the Dalmatian hinterland, Šibenik to Knin in under two hours, on rails opened on 4 October 1877 to bring the coal of the Drniš basin down to the harbour.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 6437292 — 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
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: HŽPP timetable — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
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