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Train routes operated by ZSSK
8 routes · classic 4 · scenic 4
ZSSK runs 8 of the routes in the World Train Map atlas, 1,241 km of railway across 1 country. The longest is the ZSSK InterCity at 445 km; the fastest is the ZSSK InterCity, running up to 160 km/h; the oldest line it runs over here opened in 1870.
The company itself dates to 2004, filed on Wikidata as a railway undertaking. What this page says about the company comes from ZSSK's own Wikidata item, checked against the countries its routes here actually cross before any of it is used; everything about the railway is counted from this atlas. Official site ↗ · Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata Q393557 ↗
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- 8
- Total length
- 1,241 km
- Countries
- Slovakia
- Fastest
- ZSSK InterCity · 160 km/h
- Longest
- ZSSK InterCity · 445 km
- Oldest line here
- 1870
- Company founded
- 2004
- Type
- railway undertaking
Classic (4)
- ZSSK InterCity
Up the Váh valley, then along the 1872 Košice–Bohumín railway: the High Tatras panorama, crowned by 2,655 m Gerlach, rolls past at Poprad.
- R Urpín
Named for the hill above Banská Bystrica: the southern rychlík route via Levice and Zvolen into the heart of central Slovakia.
- Košice–Humenné railway
Eastern Slovakia’s REX corridor via Trebišov toward the Vihorlat hills; the Humenné sleeper from Prague finishes on the same rails.
Wikipedia (SK) ↗ - Košice–Prešov railway
Slovakia’s second city reached from its first: the Kaschau–Oderberg company opened the branch on 1 September 1870, north up the Hornád and off the Bohumín main line at Kysak.
Wikipedia ↗
Scenic (4)
- Zvolen–Košice railway
The southern trans-Slovak line: three hours through the karst country via Lučenec, Plešivec and Rožňava beneath medieval mining towns.
Wikipedia (SK) ↗ - Zvolen–Vrútky railway
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.
Wikipedia (SK) ↗ - Margecany–Červená Skala railway
Single track through the Slovak Ore Mountains and along the south-east flank of the Low Tatras, climbing to the spiral and viaduct at Telgárt.
Wikipedia (SK) ↗ - Tatra Electric Railway (TEŽ)
Metre-gauge electric cars climb to the High Tatra resort of Štrbské Pleso at 1,320 m, Slovakia’s highest railway station.
Wikipedia ↗
Photos via Wikimedia Commons — each route page credits the author & licence
How many train routes does ZSSK run?
8 of the routes in this atlas are ZSSK services, covering 1,241 km across 1 country (Slovakia). That is what this atlas draws, not the operator's whole network — a national railway runs thousands of local services no map of notable journeys would list.
What is the fastest ZSSK train?
The ZSSK InterCity, Bratislava to Košice, at up to 160 km/h. Its fastest scheduled run takes 4 h 51 min over 445 km.
Does ZSSK run night trains?
Not in this atlas. All 8 ZSSK routes listed here are daytime services.
When was ZSSK founded?
Wikidata records the company's inception as 2004, and files it as a railway undertaking. The oldest railway it runs over in this atlas opened in 1870 — the line and the company are rarely the same age, and this page dates both.
Countries ZSSK runs in
- 🇸🇰 Train routes in Slovakia 17 routes