Classic route
Poznań–Piła railway
Poznań → Piła · Poland
- Distance
- 95 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 1 h 13 min
- Average speed
- 78 km/h
- Top speed
- 100 km/h
- Operator
- Koleje Wielkopolskie
- Train
- Koleje Wielkopolskie regional
- Countries
- Poland
- In service since
- 1879
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Built in 1879 to hook Poznań onto the Prussian Eastern Railway; a recent rebuild cut about fifteen minutes off the run north through Chodzież to Piła.
How this line was checked
- The 81 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 319296 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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