Classic route
RE 2 Liberec–Dresden
Liberec → Dresden · Czechia · Germany
- Distance
- 131 km
- Fastest time
- 2 h 4 min
- Average speed
- 63 km/h
- Top speed
- 120 km/h
- Operator
- Die Länderbahn
- Train
- RE 2 trilex
- Countries
- Czechia, Germany
- In service since
- 1879
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Bohemia into Saxony on the Lusatian branches: Liberec down the Neisse to Zittau, then Ebersbach and Bischofswerda, on a chain the Oberoderwitz link completed in October 1879.
How this line was checked
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of RE2
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