Classic route
EIC Warszawa–Szczecin
Warsaw → Szczecin · Poland
- Distance
- 511 km
- Fastest time
- 4 h 19 min
- Average speed
- 118 km/h
- Top speed
- 160 km/h
- Operator
- PKP Intercity
- Train
- PKP Intercity express
- Countries
- Poland
- In service since
- 1848
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Warsaw to the Oder in four and a quarter hours, on the old Prussian main line west through Poznań, then Krzyż and Stargard to Szczecin, where Poland meets the German border.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 20258266 — 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 3 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via Transitous: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of IC 1810 Gałczyński
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