Classic route
Danube Valley Railway
Ulm → Immendingen · Germany
Danube Valley Railway in pictures
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- Distance
- 142 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 2 h 10 min
- Average speed
- 66 km/h
- Top speed
- 120 km/h
- Operator
- DB Regio
- Train
- RE 55 · Regional-Express
- Countries
- Germany
- In service since
- 1868
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Threads the young Danube from Ulm through Blaubeuren and Riedlingen to Sigmaringen, single-tracked and largely unelectrified — once part of the Munich–Freiburg main line.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 9347461 — 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 6 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.1 km from the shape of RE55 (Zug-Nr. 3249)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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