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Rügensche Bäderbahn

, Binz, Germany
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}|} |-|} |-|} |-|} The Rügensche Bäderbahn , formerly Rügensche Kleinbahn , nicknamed Rasender Roland , is the steam-powered narrow gauge railway that runs from Putbus by way of Binz, Sellin and Baabe to Göhren on the island of Rügen off the Baltic Coast in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. Since 2008, it has been run by the Eisenbahn-Bau- und Betriebsgesellschaft Pressnitztalbahn mbH. There is an interchange with the island's Deutsche Bahn mainline network via the Veolia-run OLA railways. The Rasender Roland is one of the island's main attractions. It serves several holiday destinations, mainly the bathing resorts in Rügen's Southeast.The railway runs regularly along a stretch of 24.1 km of track with historic steam locomotives and coaches, some of which are almost a hundred years old. Unlike the Deutsche Bahn national system which uses standard gauge, Rasender Roland uses the narrow gauge of. The maximum speed is 30 kilometers per hour.

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