Classic route
EuroCity Zürich–München
Zurich → Munich · Switzerland · Austria · Germany
- Distance
- 332 km
- Fastest time
- 3 h 44 min
- Average speed
- 89 km/h
- Top speed
- 160 km/h
- Operator
- SBB · DB
- Train
- SBB Astoro ETR 610
- Countries
- Switzerland, Austria, Germany
- In service since
- 2020
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Electrified through in 2020, which cut an hour off the run: out of Zurich by Winterthur and St Gallen, over the Rhine at St Margrethen, along Lake Constance through Bregenz and Lindau, then the Allgäu to Munich.
How this line was checked
- Line traced onto the OpenStreetMap rail graph
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.1 km from the shape of EC 97
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