Classic route
EIP Pendolino
Warsaw → Gdańsk · Poland
EIP Pendolino in pictures
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- Distance
- 328 km
- Fastest time
- 2 h 39 min
- Average speed
- 124 km/h
- Top speed
- 200 km/h
- Operator
- PKP Intercity
- Train
- ED250 Pendolino
- Countries
- Poland
- In service since
- 2014
- Runs
- ≈ every 1–2 h
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Capital to the Baltic amber coast, Gdańsk’s Hanseatic old town, in under three hours.
The Pendolino run to the Baltic is Poland’s reconnection line, rebuilt end to end for the 2014 launch of Express InterCity Premium. From Warsaw the ED250s cross Masovia and the lake country around Iława, then produce the route’s trump card: Malbork, the largest brick castle in the world, filling the windows as the train crosses the Nogat. The last stretch runs the Vistula delta to a terminus within sight of Gdańsk’s shipyard cranes and the brick mass of St Mary’s.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 16020365 — 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 Transitous: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of EIC 1540 Jantar
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Along the way
- Masovian plains
- Iława lakeland
- Malbork castle over the Nogat
- Vistula delta at Tczew
- Gdańsk Główny and the shipyard cranes
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