Heritage route
Żnin District Railway
Żnin → Gąsawa · Poland
- Distance
- 12 km
- Fastest time
- ~45 min
- Average speed
- 16 km/h
- Top speed
- 25 km/h
- Operator
- Muzeum Ziemi Pałuckiej
- Train
- 600 mm diesel · open tourist cars
- Countries
- Poland
- In service since
- 1894
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
A 600 mm minirailway from 1894 chuffing 12 km through Pałuki to the Iron Age lake fort of Biskupin — archaeologists commute by narrow gauge.
How this line was checked
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 33 m from it
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Read more on Wikipedia (in PL) ↗
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