Classic route
Minsk–Brest Business Class
Minsk → Brest · Belarus
Minsk–Brest Business Class in pictures
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- Distance
- 346 km
- Fastest time
- 3 h 20 min
- Average speed
- 104 km/h
- Top speed
- 140 km/h
- Operator
- Belarusian Railway
- Train
- Stadler BKG1 EMU
- Countries
- Belarus
- In service since
- 1871
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Follows the old Moscow–Warsaw corridor to Brest, the fortress city on the Bug where Belarus’s broad gauge meets the EU frontier.
How this line was checked
- The 346 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 8548831 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 5 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Belarusian Railway — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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