Classic route
München–Innsbruck
Munich → Innsbruck · Germany · Austria
München–Innsbruck in pictures
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- Distance
- 172 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 1 h 45 min
- Average speed
- 98 km/h
- Top speed
- 230 km/h
- Operator
- ÖBB · DB
- Train
- Railjet · EuroCity
- Countries
- Germany, Austria
- In service since
- 1858
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The Brenner corridor’s northern approach: out of Munich, across the Inn at Rosenheim, into Tyrol at Kufstein and up the valley beneath the Karwendel wall.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 8279989 — 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 0.1 km from the shape of RJ 81
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