Scenic route
EC Transalpin
Zurich → Graz · Switzerland · Liechtenstein · Austria
EC Transalpin in pictures
Photographs by their authors, hosted on Wikimedia Commons · tap through for the licence
- Distance
- 697 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 9 h 50 min
- Average speed
- 71 km/h
- Top speed
- 160 km/h
- Operator
- ÖBB · SBB
- Train
- EuroCity with SBB panorama car
- Countries
- Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria
- In service since
- 1875
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
One train, one panorama car, half the Alps: Zurich to Graz over the Arlberg, past Zell am See, the Ennstal and the Gesäuse gates — the day-long EuroCity people ride for the window.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from 2 OpenStreetMap relations, their own nodes end to end: relation 1623486 (136 km), relation 14976150 (228 km) — 364 km of the route between them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 96.4% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 22 m); the longest stretch away from it is 9.5 km
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: ÖBB · SBB — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
More scenic routes
- Glacier Express
“The world’s slowest express”: 291 bridges, 91 tunnels and the 2,033 m Oberalp Pass at an average of 36 km/h.
Wikipedia ↗ - Bernina Express
A UNESCO World Heritage railway: 7 % grades with no rack, the Brusio spiral, and the highest rail crossing of the Alps at 2,253 m.
Wikipedia ↗ - Bergensbanen
Northern Europe’s highest main line: over the bare Hardangervidda plateau at 1,237 m, through 182 tunnels.
Wikipedia ↗ - West Highland Line
Regularly voted the world’s most scenic railway: around Rannoch Moor and over the 21-arch Glenfinnan Viaduct of film fame.
Wikipedia ↗
More train routes in Switzerland · Liechtenstein · Austria.