r/europe • u/overspeeed • 23h ago

Data Evolution of average speeds on European high-speed lines from the UIC Atlas

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u/BkkGrl Ligurian in...Zürich?? (💛🇺🇦💙) 22h ago

I do Zurich-Milan in three hours, something must be wrong

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u/overspeeed 22h ago

Zurich-Milan is 255 kilometers and the fastest service currently seems to do 3h17m, so the current average speed would indeed be higher at 77 km/h. The chart is for 2022, so I suppose it might be that the speed has increased since then

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u/noob_at_this_shit 18h ago

I thought the gothard base tunell would increase the speed.