Classic route
Summerauerbahn
České Budějovice → Linz · Czechia · Austria
- Distance
- 125 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 2 h 20 min
- Top speed
- 100 km/h
- Operator
- ČD · ÖBB
- Train
- ČD · ÖBB cross-border regional
- Countries
- Czechia, Austria
- In service since
- 1873
Page last updated 2026-07-30 · figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The Summerauerbahn: out of Budweis, over the granite hills where Europe’s first horse-drawn railway ran, down the Mühlviertel to the Danube at Linz.
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