Classic route
Railjet Wien–Lienz
Vienna → Lienz · Austria
- Distance
- 470 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 5 h 20 min
- Average speed
- 88 km/h
- Top speed
- 250 km/h
- Operator
- ÖBB
- Train
- ÖBB railjet
- Countries
- Austria
- In service since
- 2025
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Osttirol’s capital link restored: two railjets a day over the Semmering, through the new Koralm tunnel and up the Drau valley — a child of the Dec 2025 timetable.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from 2 OpenStreetMap relations, their own nodes end to end: relation 4640716 (374 km), relation 11185840 (67 km) — 441 km of the route between them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 13 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via Transitous: our line sits 0.1 km from the shape of RJ 556
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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