Classic route
Omulew
Olsztyn → Białystok · Poland
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.
Stations
- 0 kmOlsztyn Główny +4
- 44 kmSzczytno
- 64 kmWielbark
- 80 kmChorzele
- 136 kmOstrołeka
- 161 kmŚniadowo
- 224 kmŁapy
- 244 kmBiałystok Zielone Wzgórza
- 247 kmBiałystok
The stations OpenStreetMap lists for this service, in order, with the distance along the line as drawn here. A train may skip some of them. A +N after a station: N other routes on this map stop or end there, and the map draws it as a station where lines meet.
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
- See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it
Questions and answers
How long is the Omulew?
The Omulew runs 247 km from Olsztyn to Białystok.
How long does the Omulew take?
The fastest scheduled journey is 4 h for the 247 km. That is an average of 62 km/h end to end.
Who runs the Omulew?
PKP Intercity.
How old is the Omulew?
The line has been in service since 1915. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.
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