Classic route
alex München–Praha
Munich → Prague · Germany · Czechia
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The only direct Munich–Prague train: a famously unhurried crossing of the Bavarian Forest and Bohemia while the corridor awaits its wires.
Stations
- 0 kmMunich Central +11
- 41 kmFreising
- 76 kmLandshut (Bay) Hbf +1
- 137 kmRegensburg Central +1
- 179 kmSchwandorf
- 420 kmPraha-Smíchov +1
- 423 kmPraha hlavní nádraží +16
The stations that Wikidata lists as calls of this service, in order along the line as drawn here, with the distance along it. A train may skip some of them. A +N after a station: N other routes on this map stop or end there, and the map draws it as a station where lines meet.
How this line was checked
- The 245 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 6319063 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 95.7% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 14 m); the longest stretch away from it is 4 km
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Die Länderbahn · ČD, a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
- See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it
Questions and answers
How long is the alex München–Praha?
The alex München–Praha runs 430 km from Munich to Prague. It runs through Germany and Czechia.
How long does the alex München–Praha take?
The fastest scheduled journey is ≈ 5 h 50 min for the 430 km. That is an average of 74 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 160 km/h.
Who runs the alex München–Praha?
Die Länderbahn and ČD, with alex RE 25.
How old is the alex München–Praha?
The line has been in service since 1861. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.
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