Scenic route
Voralpen-Express
St. Gallen → Lucerne · Switzerland
Voralpen-Express in pictures
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- Distance
- 126 km
- Fastest time
- 2 h 15 min
- Average speed
- 56 km/h
- Top speed
- 120 km/h
- Operator
- Südostbahn
- Train
- Stadler SOB “Traverso” Flirt
- Countries
- Switzerland
- In service since
- 1992
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Hourly cross-country trains link the abbey city of St. Gallen with lakeside Lucerne across the pre-Alps, taking in the Wattwil moorland, the Rapperswil lake dam and the Rothenthurm high bog.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 1363294 — 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 5 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Südostbahn — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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