Classic route
EuroCity Hungaria corridor
Bratislava → Budapest · Slovakia · Hungary
EuroCity Hungaria corridor in pictures
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- Distance
- 214 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 2 h 20 min
- Average speed
- 92 km/h
- Top speed
- 140 km/h
- Operator
- ZSSK · MÁV
- Train
- EuroCity
- Countries
- Slovakia, Hungary
- In service since
- 1851
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The Danube-bend main line: EuroCities every two hours sweeping past Štúrovo and the great river’s knee at Visegrád into Budapest.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 3779840 — 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 4 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: ZSSK · MÁV — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Read more on Wikipedia (in HU) ↗
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