Classic route
SC Pendolino
Prague → Ostrava · Czechia
SC Pendolino in pictures
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- Distance
- 356 km
- Fastest time
- 3 h 7 min
- Average speed
- 114 km/h
- Top speed
- 160 km/h
- Operator
- České dráhy
- Train
- ČD Class 680
- Countries
- Czechia
- In service since
- 2005
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Czechia’s flagship tilting Pendolino links Prague with Moravia’s industrial capital Ostrava via the cathedral city of Olomouc.
How this line was checked
- The 189 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 48766 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 94.7% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 7 m); the longest stretch away from it is 6 km
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.3 km from the shape of RGJ 1003
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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