Classic route
České dráhy Express
Prague → Karlovy Vary · Czechia
České dráhy Express in pictures
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- Distance
- 200 km
- Fastest time
- 3 h 15 min
- Average speed
- 62 km/h
- Top speed
- 100 km/h
- Operator
- České dráhy
- Train
- ČD 854 · RegioPanter
- Countries
- Czechia
- In service since
- 1871
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
A winding cross-country run to the grand colonnades of Karlovy Vary, the Bohemian spa where Goethe, Beethoven and half of Europe’s royalty took the waters.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from 2 OpenStreetMap relations, their own nodes end to end: relation 48800 (26 km), relation 48811 (60 km) — 86 km of the route between them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 98.7% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 15 m); the longest stretch away from it is 2.5 km
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: České dráhy — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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