Classic route
Railjet
Prague → Vienna · Czechia · Austria
Railjet in pictures
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- Distance
- 404 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 4 h
- Average speed
- 101 km/h
- Top speed
- 160 km/h
- Operator
- ČD · ÖBB
- Train
- Railjet
- Countries
- Czechia, Austria
- In service since
- 1839
- Runs
- every 2 h (hourly with EuroCitys)
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Follows the Habsburg Empire’s first steam railway of 1839. Prague, Brno and Vienna strung like pearls.
This corridor carries some of the oldest railway DNA on the continent: its southern end grew from the Kaiser Ferdinands-Nordbahn, Austria’s first steam railway, which reached Břeclav in 1839. Today ČD and ÖBB Railjets share an hourly-pattern service that leaves Prague beneath Vyšehrad, climbs the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands, and pauses at Brno under the Špilberk fortress before running the Pálava wine country and March floodplains into Vienna. Four relaxed hours, dining car included, between the two old capitals of the monarchy.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 3761058 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 5 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: the railway’s own site — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Along the way
- Vltava departure under Vyšehrad
- Bohemian-Moravian Highlands
- Brno beneath Špilberk
- Pálava hills wine country
- March floodplain meadows
- Vienna Hauptbahnhof
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