Railjet Budapest–Berlin

Four countries in eleven hours, Danube Bend to Brandenburg by way of Bratislava, Brno and Prague, and through the sandstone gorge of the Elbe on a railway the Saxons and the Austrians opened together in 1851.

Stations

1. 2 kmBudapest-Keleti +6
2. 42 kmVác +2
3. 59 kmNagymaros-Visegrád +1
4. 71 kmSzob +1
5. 86 kmŠtúrovo +1
6. 130 kmNové Zámky +1
7. Show 9 more stations

   1. 221 kmBratislava hl.st. +5
   2. 284 kmKúty
   3. 303 kmBřeclav +2
   4. 363 kmBrno hl.n. +4
   5. 512 kmPardubice hl.n. +2
   6. 553 kmKolín +1
   7. 614 kmPraha hlavní nádraží +16
   8. 622 kmPraha-Holešovice +1
   9. 725 kmÚstí nad Labem hlavní nádraží +1
8. 748 kmDěčín hlavní nádraží +2
9. 770 kmBad Schandau +1
10. 809 kmDresden Hbf +4
11. 986 kmBerlin Südkreuz +1
12. 991 kmBerlin Hauptbahnhof (Tief) +11

The stations OpenStreetMap lists for this service, in order, with the distance along the line as drawn here. A train may skip some of them. A +N after a station: N other routes on this map stop or end there, and the map draws it as a station where lines meet.

How this line was checked

• The 690 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 3779841 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within 45 m of them
• Checked against OpenStreetMap: 98% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 11 m); the longest stretch away from it is 9.5 km
• The operator publishes this line's timetable: DB — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
• See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it

Questions and answers

How long is the Railjet?

The Railjet runs 992 km from Budapest to Berlin. It runs through Hungary, Slovakia, Czechia and Germany.

How long does the Railjet take?

The fastest scheduled journey is 11 h for the 992 km. That is an average of 90 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 160 km/h.

Who runs the Railjet?

MAV, ZSSK, ČD and DB, with Railjet.

How old is the Railjet?

The line has been in service since 1851. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.

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