Scenic route
Kraków–Zakopane
Kraków → Zakopane · Poland
Kraków–Zakopane in pictures
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- Distance
- 147 km
- Fastest time
- 2 h 45 min
- Average speed
- 53 km/h
- Top speed
- 100 km/h
- Operator
- PKP Intercity · Koleje Małopolskie
- Train
- EN76 Elf / IC coaches
- Countries
- Poland
- In service since
- 1899
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Climbs from Kraków into the Tatra Mountains on the rebuilt line to Zakopane, Poland’s highest town and winter-sports capital.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 20708079 — 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 7 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: PKP Intercity · Koleje Małopolskie — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
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