Scenic route
Tatra Electric Railway (TEŽ)
Poprad → Štrbské Pleso · Slovakia
Tatra Electric Railway (TEŽ) in pictures
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- Distance
- 29 km
- Fastest time
- 1 h 5 min
- Average speed
- 27 km/h
- Top speed
- 60 km/h
- Operator
- ZSSK
- Train
- ŽSSK Class 425.95
- Countries
- Slovakia
- In service since
- 1912
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Metre-gauge electric cars climb to the High Tatra resort of Štrbské Pleso at 1,320 m, Slovakia’s highest railway station.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 10042192 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 3 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.1 km from the shape of Os 8108 (Zug-Nr. 8108)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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