Night train route
Kyiv–Warsaw Sleeper
Kyiv → Warsaw · Ukraine · Poland
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.
- Distance
- 780 km
- Fastest time
- 14 h
- Average speed
- 56 km/h
- Top speed
- 120 km/h

Stations
- 0 kmKyiv Passenger +9
- 450 kmKovel - Pasazhyrskyi +1
- 538 kmChełm
- 540 kmChełm City
- 557 kmRejowiec
- 600 kmŚwidnik Miasto +1
- 610 kmLublin Główny +3
- 614 kmLublin Zachodni +2
- 639 kmNałęczów +2
- 661 kmPuławy Miasto +2
- 681 kmDęblin +2
- 730 kmPilawa +1
- 780 kmWarszawa Wschodnia +3
- 784 kmWarsaw Central +12
The stations this train called at in the operator’s timetable (ÖBB Scotty, the train 67 on 29 October 2026), in order along the line as drawn here, with the distance along it. Other runs of the train may skip some of them, and the timetable can change. A +N after a station: N other routes on this map stop or end there, and the map draws it as a station where lines meet.
How this line was checked
- The 211 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 20428347 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within 45 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 99.6% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 13 m); the longest stretch away from it is 3.5 km
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.1 km from the shape of train 67
- 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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