Classic route
Dalabanan
Stockholm → Mora · Sweden
Dalabanan in pictures
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- Distance
- 310 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 3 h 40 min
- Average speed
- 85 km/h
- Top speed
- 160 km/h
- Operator
- SJ
- Train
- SJ InterCity
- Countries
- Sweden
- In service since
- 1891
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
To Dalarna, Sweden’s folklore heart: Lake Siljan, Leksand’s midsummer poles and the Vasaloppet town of Mora, where the Inlandsbanan begins.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from 2 OpenStreetMap relations, their own nodes end to end: relation 3293019 (65 km), relation 71594 (261 km) — 327 km of the route between them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 99.2% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 6 m); the longest stretch away from it is 2.5 km
- Checked against the running timetable via Transitous: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of 36
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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