Night train route
Nightjet Zurich–Amsterdam
Zurich → Amsterdam · Switzerland · Germany · Netherlands
- Distance
- 840 km
- Fastest time
- 11 h 15 min
- Average speed
- 75 km/h
- Top speed
- 200 km/h
- Operator
- ÖBB · NS
- Train
- Nightjet sleeper
- Countries
- Switzerland, Germany, Netherlands
- In service since
- 2021
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Asleep along the Rhine, awake on the IJ: the 2021 revival that re-linked the Alps to the canals, sliding past Cologne’s floodlit cathedral at midnight.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from 2 OpenStreetMap relations, their own nodes end to end: relation 2303892 (84 km), relation 325469 (114 km) — 199 km of the route between them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 97% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 25 m); the longest stretch away from it is 9.5 km
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 1.8 km from the shape of NJ 402
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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