Night train route
Chopin
Vienna → Warsaw · Austria · Czechia · Poland
The Chopin sleeper has linked Vienna and Warsaw since at least the 1980s, slipping through the Moravian Gate by night and finishing down Poland’s CMK fast line into the capital before six.
- Distance
- 690 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 9 h 30 min
- Average speed
- 73 km/h
- Top speed
- 160 km/h
Stations
- 0 kmWien Hauptbahnhof +14
- 89 kmBřeclav +2
- 110 kmHodonín
- 144 kmStaré Město u Uherského Hradiště
- 161 kmOtrokovice
- 189 kmPřerov +1
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- 218 kmHranice na Moravě +1
- 268 kmOstrava-Svinov +1
- 273 kmOstrava hlavní nádraží +1
- 281 kmBohumín
- 286 kmChałupki
- 304 kmWodzisław Śląski
- 315 kmRybnik
- 350 kmTychy +1
- 367 kmKatowice +4
- 376 kmSosnowiec Główny +1
- 411 kmZawiercie +1
- 542 kmOpoczno Południe +2
- 661 kmWarszawa Zachodnia +6
- 663 kmWarszawa Centralna +12
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 3779845: 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 6 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of EC 106
- 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 Chopin?
The Chopin runs 690 km from Vienna to Warsaw. It runs through Austria, Czechia and Poland.
How long does the Chopin take?
The fastest scheduled journey is ≈ 9 h 30 min for the 690 km. That is an average of 73 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 160 km/h.
Who runs the Chopin?
PKP Intercity and ÖBB, with PKP sleeper, couchettes.
How old is the Chopin?
The line has been in service since 1984. 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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