Classic route
InterCity
Dublin → Tralee · Ireland
InterCity in pictures
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- Distance
- 333 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 3 h 55 min
- Average speed
- 85 km/h
- Top speed
- 160 km/h
- Operator
- Iarnród Éireann
- Train
- Class 22000 ICR
- Countries
- Ireland
- In service since
- 1859
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Ireland’s longest ride: off the Cork line at Mallow and west past Killarney’s lakes to Tralee — Kerry and the Atlantic at the end of the rails.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from 2 OpenStreetMap relations, their own nodes end to end: relation 390986 (234 km), relation 392565 (105 km) — 332 km of the route between 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 0.1 km from the shape of IC 312
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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