Classic route
REX Wien–Bratislava
Vienna → Bratislava · Austria · Slovakia
REX Wien–Bratislava in pictures
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- Distance
- 65 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 1 h 5 min
- Average speed
- 60 km/h
- Top speed
- 160 km/h
- Operator
- ÖBB · ZSSK
- Train
- ÖBB Cityjet
- Countries
- Austria, Slovakia
- In service since
- 1848
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Europe’s closest capital pair, an hour apart on the 1848 Marchegg line across the Morava floodplain — two countries, one commuter corridor.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 3749681 — 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 4 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via Transitous: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of REX 2512
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Read more on Wikipedia (in DE) ↗
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