Classic route
IC Brda
Warsaw → Bydgoszcz · Poland
- Distance
- 286 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 2 h 34 min
- Average speed
- 111 km/h
- Top speed
- 140 km/h
- Operator
- PKP Intercity
- Train
- PKP Intercity
- Countries
- Poland
- In service since
- 1862
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The 1862 Warsaw–Bydgoszcz Railway via the brick-gothic city of Toruń, Copernicus’s birthplace, to the Brda riverside.
How this line was checked
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 98.8% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 4 m); the longest stretch away from it is 3.5 km
- Checked against the running timetable via Transitous: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of IC 2522 Rejewski
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Read more on Wikipedia (in PL) ↗
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