Night train route
Nightjet
Vienna → Zurich · Austria · Germany · Liechtenstein · Switzerland
Nightjet in pictures
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- Distance
- 780 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 9 h
- Average speed
- 87 km/h
- Top speed
- 200 km/h
- Operator
- ÖBB
- Train
- Nightjet sleeper
- Countries
- Austria, Germany, Liechtenstein, Switzerland
- In service since
- 2016
- Runs
- nightly each way
- Highest point
- 1,310 m
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The founding route of the Nightjet brand: over the Arlberg while you sleep, Alps at both ends.
The evening train out of Vienna is one of the anchors of ÖBB’s Nightjet network: the operation that kept European sleepers alive when others gave up, and now fields new-generation cars with lockable mini-cabins alongside classic compartments. The route runs the Westbahn to Salzburg and Innsbruck by night, then takes the Arlberg crossing towards dawn: avalanche galleries, the 1,310 m summit tunnel, and breakfast light on the Rhine valley floor before the Swiss lakes. It rolls into Zurich just as the espresso machines warm up.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from 2 OpenStreetMap relations, their own nodes end to end: relation 7576704 (305 km), relation 1623486 (135 km) — 440 km of the route between them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 97.5% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 16 m); the longest stretch away from it is 7 km
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: ÖBB Scotty — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Along the way
- Salzburg and Innsbruck by night
- Arlberg tunnel towards dawn
- Feldkirch and the Rhine valley at first light
- Walensee cliffs
- Zurich HB breakfast arrival
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