Night train route
EN Ister
Budapest → Bucharest · Hungary · Romania
EN Ister in pictures
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- Distance
- 874 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 16 h
- Average speed
- 55 km/h
- Top speed
- 160 km/h
- Operator
- MÁV · CFR
- Train
- CFR sleepers · couchettes
- Countries
- Hungary, Romania
- In service since
- 1883
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Retraces the original 1883 Orient Express alignment through Transylvania’s castles and the Carpathian passes.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 16228089 — 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
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: MÁV · CFR — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Read more on Wikipedia (in HU) ↗
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