Classic route
Omulew
Olsztyn → Białystok · Poland
- Distance
- 247 km
- Fastest time
- 4 h
- Average speed
- 62 km/h
- Operator
- PKP Intercity ↗
- Train
- PKP Intercity coaches
- Countries
- Poland
- In service since
- 1915
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Masuria east to west without going near Warsaw, on a single track the Prussian army threw across the Narew in five weeks in 1915 to move troops to the Eastern Front.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from 2 OpenStreetMap relations, their own nodes end to end: relation 20977215 (224 km), relation 20977216 (20 km) — 244 km of the route between them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 3 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: PKP Intercity — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
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