Classic route
Balaton InterCity
Budapest → Siófok · Hungary
Balaton InterCity in pictures
Photographs by their authors, hosted on Wikimedia Commons · tap through for the licence
- Distance
- 115 km
- Fastest time
- 1 h 30 min
- Average speed
- 77 km/h
- Top speed
- 120 km/h
- Operator
- MÁV-START
- Train
- Stadler KISS
- Countries
- Hungary
- In service since
- 1861
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Summer expresses to Siófok on the south shore of Lake Balaton, central Europe’s largest lake and Hungary’s beach playground.
How this line was checked
- The 115 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 16172735 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 97.7% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 4 m); the longest stretch away from it is 3 km
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.7 km from the shape of IC 1206
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Read more on Wikipedia (in HU) ↗
More classic routes
- LNER Azuma
The Flying Scotsman’s route since 1862: and where Mallard set the never-beaten steam record of 203 km/h in 1938.
Wikipedia ↗ - Alfa Pendular
A tilting Pendolino leaning through the curves of the 19th-century Linha do Norte between Portugal’s two great cities.
Wikipedia ↗ - EIP Pendolino
Rides Poland’s 1970s Central Main Line (CMK), engineered decades ahead of its time and now being upgraded to 250 km/h.
Wikipedia ↗ - Railjet
Follows the old Orient Express alignment down the Danube plain: centre to centre faster than any flight.
Wikipedia ↗
More train routes in Hungary.