Classic route
Railjet
Budapest → Berlin · Hungary · Slovakia · Czechia · Germany
- Distance
- 992 km
- Fastest time
- 11 h
- Average speed
- 90 km/h
- Top speed
- 160 km/h
- Operator
- MAV · ZSSK · ČD · DB
- Train
- Railjet
- In service since
- 1851
- Countries
- Hungary, Slovakia, Czechia, Germany
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
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.
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
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