Classic route
Berlin-Warszawa-Express
Berlin → Warsaw · Germany · Poland
Berlin-Warszawa-Express in pictures
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- Distance
- 570 km
- Fastest time
- 5 h 25 min
- Average speed
- 105 km/h
- Top speed
- 160 km/h
- Operator
- PKP Intercity & DB
- Train
- EuroCity (EU44 Husarz)
- Countries
- Germany, Poland
- In service since
- 2002
- Runs
- 6× daily
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Six EuroCitys a day across the North European Plain, with the cult WARS dining car serving pierogi between the Oder and the Vistula.
The Berlin-Warszawa-Express brand dates from 2002, but expresses have shuttled between the two capitals since the age of the Ost-Express. Today six EuroCity pairs cross the Oder at Frankfurt and lope across the North European Plain via Poznań behind Polish EU44 electrics. The WARS dining car (pierogi, żurek and złoty prices) is half the reason regulars still choose the train over the plane.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 6195246 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 3 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: PKP Intercity — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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- Oder crossing at Frankfurt
- Lubusz pine forests
- Poznań’s cathedral island
- Warta and Vistula plains
- Approach into Warszawa Centralna
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