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The Hamburg layout now runs over 16 kilometres of miniature track. The figure is taken from Miniatur Wunderland, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.

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Miniatur Wunderland has the largest model railway

The Hamburg layout now runs over 16 kilometres of miniature track The attraction in a converted warehouse on the Elbe has grown since 2001 to more than 16 kilometres of track, with sections modelling Germany, Austria, Switzerland and parts of Italy and the Americas. Around 1,100 trains run on a schedule controlled by computers, and the whole layout is maintained by a permanent technical staff. It also contains a working model airport with landing aircraft. It sits in Mondo's records & extremes collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: The Hamburg layout now runs over 16 kilometres of miniature track. The figure is taken from Miniatur Wunderland, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a records & extremes fact?: Yes. It sits on the Records & Extremes shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.