Night train route
Kyiv–Warsaw Sleeper
Kyiv → Warsaw · Ukraine · Poland
Kyiv–Warsaw Sleeper in pictures
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- Distance
- 780 km
- Fastest time
- 14 h
- Average speed
- 56 km/h
- Top speed
- 120 km/h
- Operator
- Ukrzaliznytsia
- Train
- UZ sleeping cars
- Countries
- Ukraine, Poland
- In service since
- 2016
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
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
- Checked against the running timetable via Transitous: our line passes within 301 m of every station Ш 67 calls at (the planner's own shape was too coarse to measure a line against)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Read more on Wikipedia (in UK) ↗
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