260 miles, 5 hours
not to long not to long
It is about 450 km, so it depends on your speed.
5
There are no through services, but five times a day you can do the journey by rail in around 12h20 with one change on the way (either at Frankfurt, Munich, or Zürich). An additional overnight journey is slower (15h10; change at Munich) but gives the earliest daytime arrival in Paris (09.24).
Including a change of trains in Munich, about 12½ hours.
455 km
For a train journey from Milan to Zurich it would take approximately four hours to get one way.
Not very. The trick is to cut through Germany. Head for Salzburg and Munich.
Prague, Vienna, Salzburg, Munich, Lucerne, Bern, Budapest
According to Rail Europe, distributor of train tickets and rail passes, approximately between 7 and 10 hours.
lyon - vienna