High-speed route
Railjet
Munich → Vienna · Germany · Austria
- Distance
- 460 km
- Fastest time
- 4 h
- Average speed
- 115 km/h
- Top speed
- 230 km/h
- Operator
- ÖBB · DB
- Train
- ÖBB Railjet
- Countries
- Germany, Austria
- In service since
- 2008
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Bavaria to the Danube capital along the Westbahn, past Salzburg’s fortress and the baroque abbeys of Upper Austria.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 2167317 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 33 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 11 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via Transitous: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of RJX 63
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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