Night train route
Kyiv–Warsaw Sleeper
Kyiv → Warsaw · Ukraine · Poland
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Wartime lifeline to the EU: at the Bug border every carriage is jacked up and its bogies swapped from 1,520 to 1,435 mm gauge while passengers doze.
How this line was checked
- The 276 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 20428347 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 99.2% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 17 m); the longest stretch away from it is 3.5 km
- 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 Kyiv–Warsaw Sleeper?
The Kyiv–Warsaw Sleeper runs 780 km from Kyiv to Warsaw. It runs through Ukraine and Poland.
How long does the Kyiv–Warsaw Sleeper take?
The fastest scheduled journey is 14 h for the 780 km. That is an average of 56 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 120 km/h.
Who runs the Kyiv–Warsaw Sleeper?
Ukrzaliznytsia, with UZ sleeping cars.
How old is the Kyiv–Warsaw Sleeper?
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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