Classic route
EuroCity Via Regia
Leipzig → Wrocław · Germany · Poland
![EuroCity Via Regia — Leipzig to Wrocław](/photo/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/SU46-037_podczepia_się_pod_skład_EC_"Wawel"_w_Węglińcu.jpg/1280px-SU46-037_podczepia_się_pod_skład_EC_"Wawel"_w_Węglińcu.jpg)
Named for the medieval road it shadows: the EuroCity takes the Oberlausitz company’s line of 1874 and crosses at Horka, a border that carried no scheduled passenger trains for decades.
Stations
- 0 kmLeipzig Hauptbahnhof +5
- 117 kmRuhland
- 142 kmHoyerswerda - Wojerecy
- 217 kmWęgliniec
- 242 kmBolesławiec
- 269 kmChojnów
- 287 kmLegnica +2
- 352 kmWrocław Główny +7
The stations OpenStreetMap lists for this service, in order, with the distance along the line as drawn here. A train may skip some of them. A +N after a station: N other routes on this map stop or end there, and the map draws it as a station where lines meet.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 20955960 — 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
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of EC 133
Questions and answers
How long is the EuroCity Via Regia?
The EuroCity Via Regia runs 352 km from Leipzig to Wrocław. It runs through Germany and Poland.
How long does the EuroCity Via Regia take?
The fastest scheduled journey is 3 h 35 min for the 352 km. That is an average of 98 km/h end to end.
Who runs the EuroCity Via Regia?
DB Fernverkehr and PKP Intercity, with EC 133.
How old is the EuroCity Via Regia?
The line has been in service since 1874. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.
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