Night train route
Night Express
Kyiv → Uzhhorod · Ukraine
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Ukraine’s overnight hop across the Carpathians: asleep through Lviv, awake for the climb past Skole into the 2018 twin-bore Beskyd tunnel, then down the valley to Uzhhorod.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from 2 OpenStreetMap relations, their own nodes end to end: relation 7478444 (148 km), relation 5454876 (262 km) — 410 km of the route between them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 9 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Ukrzaliznytsia — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
- See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it
Questions and answers
How long is the Night Express?
The Night Express runs 853 km from Kyiv to Uzhhorod.
How long does the Night Express take?
The fastest scheduled journey is ~11 h 30 min for the 853 km. That is an average of 74 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 120 km/h.
Who runs the Night Express?
Ukrzaliznytsia, with UZ sleeper № 29/30.
How old is the Night Express?
The line has been in service since 2016. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.
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