Classic route
Intercity+
Kyiv → Przemyśl · Ukraine · Poland
- Distance
- 719 km
- Fastest time
- 9 h
- Average speed
- 80 km/h
- Top speed
- 160 km/h
- Operator
- Ukrainian Railways
- Train
- Hyundai Rotem HRCS2
- Countries
- Ukraine, Poland
- In service since
- 2016
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The first Intercity+ to cross a border, and since 2022 the way most of Ukraine reaches the European Union: Kyiv to the Polish frontier at Przemysl in nine hours, through Vinnytsia, Khmelnytskyi, Ternopil and Lviv.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 18797987 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 30 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: Ukrainian Railways — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Read more on Wikipedia (in UK) ↗
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