Classic route
Szombathely–Nagykanizsa railway
Nagykanizsa → Szombathely · Hungary
- Distance
- 101 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 1 h 43 min
- Average speed
- 59 km/h
- Top speed
- 100 km/h
- Operator
- MÁV
- Train
- MÁV regional
- Countries
- Hungary
- In service since
- 1865
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Western Hungary north to south since 1865, from the Croatian-border junction at Nagykanizsa up past Zalaegerszeg to Szombathely.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from 2 OpenStreetMap relations, their own nodes end to end: relation 17589826 (52 km), relation 72205 (49 km) — 100 km of the route between them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 4 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of IR 8907
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Read more on Wikipedia (in HU) ↗
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