Classic route
Stångådalsbanan
Linköping → Kalmar · Sweden
- Distance
- 235 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 3 h 18 min
- Average speed
- 71 km/h
- Train
- Krösatågen
- Countries
- Sweden
- In service since
- 1902
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Four separate railways stitched into one 235 kilometre run across Småland; the last section opened in 1902, and only since 1996 has the trip been possible without changing trains.
How this line was checked
- The 198 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 199021 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: SJ — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Read more on Wikipedia (in SV) ↗
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