Classic route
Lyntog Copenhagen–Aarhus
Copenhagen → Aarhus · Denmark
Lyntog Copenhagen–Aarhus in pictures
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- Distance
- 330 km
- Fastest time
- 2 h 39 min
- Average speed
- 125 km/h
- Top speed
- 180 km/h
- Operator
- DSB
- Train
- IC3 Lyntog
- Countries
- Denmark
- In service since
- 1997
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Zealand to Jutland with no ferry: an 8 km tunnel and the 6.6 km West Bridge across the Great Belt made Denmark one rail country in 1997.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 7485248 — 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 8 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: DSB — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Read more on Wikipedia (in DA) ↗
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