Night train route
Ister
Budapest → Bucharest · Hungary · Romania
- Distance
- 873 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 15 h 30 min
- Top speed
- 140 km/h
- Operator
- MÁV-START · CFR Călători
- Train
- CFR sleepers · couchettes
- Countries
- Hungary, Romania
- In service since
- 1996
Page last updated 2026-07-18 · figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The Ister leaves Budapest at dusk, crosses the Hungarian plain to Arad and climbs through Transylvania in the dark, dropping out of the Carpathians at Brașov for a mid-morning Bucharest arrival.
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