Classic route
Tauernschleuse
Böckstein → Mallnitz-Obervellach · Austria
- Distance
- 12 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 12 min
- Average speed
- 60 km/h
- Operator
- ÖBB
- Train
- ÖBB car-carrying wagons
- Countries
- Austria
- In service since
- 1909
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Salzburg to Carinthia without the pass: the car shuttle through the 1909 Tauern tunnel, hourly under the Alpine main ridge from Böckstein to Mallnitz.
How this line was checked
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: ÖBB Scotty — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
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