Classic route
Südbahn
Ulm → Lindau · Germany
Südbahn in pictures
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- Distance
- 125 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 1 h 55 min
- Average speed
- 65 km/h
- Top speed
- 140 km/h
- Operator
- DB Regio
- Train
- DB RE3
- Countries
- Germany
- In service since
- 1850
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Württemberg’s Südbahn, electrified at last: Ulm’s minster to Lake Constance at Friedrichshafen, then along the shore to Lindau island.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from 2 OpenStreetMap relations, their own nodes end to end: relation 1285801 (103 km), relation 10991787 (23 km) — 125 km of the route between them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 98.8% of this line lies within 250 m of 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 RE3 (Zug-Nr. 32685)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Read more on Wikipedia (in DE) ↗
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