Night train route
Chopin
Vienna → Warsaw · Austria · Czechia · Poland
Chopin in pictures
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- Distance
- 690 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 9 h 30 min
- Average speed
- 73 km/h
- Top speed
- 160 km/h
- Operator
- PKP Intercity · ÖBB
- Train
- PKP sleeper · couchettes
- Countries
- Austria, Czechia, Poland
- In service since
- 1984
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
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.
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 Transitous: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of IC 406
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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