Heritage route
Train 1900 (Fond-de-Gras Heritage Railway)
Pétange → Fond-de-Gras · Luxembourg
Train 1900 (Fond-de-Gras Heritage Railway) in pictures
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- Distance
- 8 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 25 min
- Average speed
- 19 km/h
- Top speed
- 30 km/h
- Operator
- AMTF (Association des Musées et Tourisme Ferroviaires)
- Train
- Steam & diesel locomotives (former Prince Henri Railway stock)
- Countries
- Luxembourg
- In service since
- 1874
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Vintage steam trains rattle through Luxembourg’s old iron-mining Minett region on track first laid in 1874 to move ore and miners.
How this line was checked
- The 6 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 6413019 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 10 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 1.3 km from the shape of RE 455 (Zug-Nr. 455)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Read more on Wikipedia (in FR) ↗
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