Classic route
IC 1
Zurich → Geneva · Switzerland
IC 1 in pictures
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- Distance
- 280 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 2 h 45 min
- Average speed
- 102 km/h
- Top speed
- 200 km/h
- Operator
- SBB
- Train
- SBB IC 2000 · Giruno
- Countries
- Switzerland
- In service since
- 1862
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
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.
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
Read more on Wikipedia (in DE) ↗
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