Classic route
ZSSK InterCity
Bratislava → Košice · Slovakia
ZSSK InterCity in pictures
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- Distance
- 445 km
- Fastest time
- 4 h 51 min
- Average speed
- 92 km/h
- Top speed
- 160 km/h
- Operator
- ZSSK
- Train
- ZSSK InterCity
- Countries
- Slovakia
- In service since
- 1872
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Up the Váh valley, then along the 1872 Košice–Bohumín railway: the High Tatras panorama, crowned by 2,655 m Gerlach, rolls past at Poprad.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 16799568 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 40 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 15 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.3 km from the shape of EX 609
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