Night train route
Night Express
Kyiv → Uzhhorod · Ukraine
Night Express in pictures
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- Distance
- 853 km
- Fastest time
- ~11 h 30 min
- Average speed
- 74 km/h
- Top speed
- 120 km/h
- Operator
- Ukrzaliznytsia
- Train
- UZ sleeper № 29/30
- Countries
- Ukraine
- In service since
- 2016
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
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
- Checked against the running timetable via Transitous: our line sits 0.1 km from the shape of 29
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Read more on Wikipedia (in UK) ↗
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