High-speed route
Brightline
Miami → Orlando · United States
Brightline in pictures
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- Distance
- 376 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 3 h 30 min
- Average speed
- 107 km/h
- Top speed
- 200 km/h
- Operator
- Brightline
- Train
- Siemens Charger sets
- Countries
- United States
- In service since
- 2023
- Riders per year
- ≈ 2.8M
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
America’s first private intercity railway in a century: bright yellow, 200 km/h through the palms.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 8266054 — 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
- Checked against the running timetable via Transitous: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of BLFM
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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