Scenic route
Zvolen–Vrútky railway
Zvolen → Vrútky · Slovakia
Zvolen–Vrútky railway in pictures
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- Distance
- 95 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 1 h 44 min
- Average speed
- 55 km/h
- Top speed
- 100 km/h
- Operator
- ZSSK
- Train
- R · Regional
- Countries
- Slovakia
- In service since
- 1872
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Slovak line 170 through the mountains north of Zvolen: the Banská Bystrica–Dolná Štubňa section alone, built 1936–40, has 22 tunnels totalling 12.2 km.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 14717099 — 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 4 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.1 km from the shape of R 940
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Read more on Wikipedia (in SK) ↗
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