Classic route
IC 1
Zurich → Geneva · Switzerland
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Switzerland’s flagship express and spine of the clockface timetable: Zurich to Geneva across the Mittelland, Bern and Lausanne on the way, every half hour.
Stations
- 0 kmZürich Hauptbahnhof (Löwenstrasse)
- 117 kmBern
- 148 kmFribourg/Freiburg
- 213 kmLausanne
- 217 kmRenens VD
- 273 kmGenève-Cornavin
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.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 1411908 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 29 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 98% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 12 m); the longest stretch away from it is 3 km
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of IC 708
- 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 IC 1?
The IC 1 runs 280 km from Zurich to Geneva.
How long does the IC 1 take?
The fastest scheduled journey is ≈ 2 h 45 min for the 280 km. That is an average of 102 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 200 km/h.
Who runs the IC 1?
SBB.
How old is the IC 1?
The line has been in service since 1862. 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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