Classic route
EuroCity Budapest–Zagreb
Budapest → Zagreb · Hungary · Croatia
EuroCity Budapest–Zagreb in pictures
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- Distance
- 340 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 6 h
- Average speed
- 57 km/h
- Top speed
- 120 km/h
- Operator
- MÁV · HŽPP
- Train
- MÁV · HŽPP EuroCity
- Countries
- Hungary, Croatia
- In service since
- 1870
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The only Hungary–Croatia day train: along Balaton’s southern shore, over the Drava at Gyékényes and down through Zagorje to Zagreb.
How this line was checked
- The 234 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 16172735 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 96.4% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 6 m); the longest stretch away from it is 3 km
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.3 km from the shape of IC 1206
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Read more on Wikipedia (in HU) ↗
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