Classic route
REX Wien–Sopron
Vienna → Sopron · Austria · Hungary
REX Wien–Sopron in pictures
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- Distance
- 73 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 1 h 15 min
- Average speed
- 58 km/h
- Top speed
- 140 km/h
- Operator
- GySEV · ÖBB
- Train
- GySEV REX
- Countries
- Austria, Hungary
- In service since
- 1879
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Vienna into Hungary the old imperial way: Wiener Neustadt, the Ödenburg plain, and GySEV’s green-and-yellow home town of Sopron.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 3774028 — 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 1.4 km from the shape of REX 7720
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