Classic route
EC Hornád
Budapest → Košice · Hungary · Slovakia
- Distance
- 270 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 3 h 25 min
- Average speed
- 79 km/h
- Top speed
- 120 km/h
- Operator
- MÁV · ZSSK
- Train
- EuroCity
- Countries
- Hungary, Slovakia
- In service since
- 1860
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Budapest’s only direct reach into eastern Slovakia: the little EuroCity that grows at Miskolc, bound for Košice’s Gothic cathedral square.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 16803090 — 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 5 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of IC 184
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