Classic route
alex München–Praha
Munich → Prague · Germany · Czechia
alex München–Praha in pictures
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- Distance
- 430 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 5 h 50 min
- Average speed
- 74 km/h
- Top speed
- 160 km/h
- Operator
- Die Länderbahn · ČD
- Train
- alex RE 25
- Countries
- Germany, Czechia
- In service since
- 1861
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The only direct Munich–Prague train: a famously unhurried crossing of the Bavarian Forest and Bohemia while the corridor awaits its wires.
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
Read more on Wikipedia (in DE) ↗
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