Classic route
Intercity+
Kyiv → Kharkiv · Ukraine
Intercity+ in pictures
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- Distance
- 480 km
- Fastest time
- 4 h 50 min
- Average speed
- 99 km/h
- Top speed
- 160 km/h
- Operator
- Ukrainian Railways
- Train
- Škoda EJ675 / Hyundai HRCS2
- Countries
- Ukraine
- In service since
- 2012
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Ukraine’s flagship Intercity+ express, launched for Euro 2012, races across the steppe from Kyiv to Kharkiv via Poltava.
How this line was checked
- The 483 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 21189441 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 98.8% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 6 m); the longest stretch away from it is 6 km
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.2 km from the shape of IC 722
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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