Classic route
EIP Pendolino Warsaw–Kraków
Warsaw → Kraków · Poland
View on the map →Wikipedia ↗Stations · 6
Rides Poland’s 1970s Central Main Line (CMK), engineered decades ahead of its time and now being upgraded to 250 km/h.
Poland’s Pendolinos arrived in December 2014 and finally used the CMK, a central trunk line laid out in the 1970s for speeds Polish Rail could only dream of then, as intended. The ED250s hold 200 km/h down its arrow-straight kilometres, the fastest running in the country, before curving off through the Jura uplands to Kraków. Warsaw’s rebuilt skyline to Kraków’s Gothic Główny station takes about two and a quarter hours, quicker than the airport taxi queues it emptied.
Stations
- 0 kmWarszawa Centralna
- 3 kmWarszawa Zachodnia
- 122 kmOpoczno Południe
- 183 kmWłoszczowa Północ
- 250 kmMiechów
- 292 kmKraków Główny
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.
Along the way
- Warszawa Centralna’s brutalist hall
- Masovian plains
- CMK racing straights
- Polish Jura near Zawiercie
- Kraków Główny beside the Old Town
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 18237945 — 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 ÖBB Scotty: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of EIC 1350
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
- See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it
Questions and answers
How long is the EIP Pendolino?
The EIP Pendolino runs 293 km from Warsaw to Kraków.
How long does the EIP Pendolino take?
The fastest scheduled journey is 2 h 21 min for the 293 km. That is an average of 125 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 200 km/h.
Who runs the EIP Pendolino?
PKP Intercity, with ED250 Pendolino.
How old is the EIP Pendolino?
The line has been in service since 2014. 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.
How often does the EIP Pendolino run?
Roughly hourly.
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