Jon WorthOct 2, 2023

Welcome to #CrossBorderRail Autumn 2023 Day 17, 2 Oct, Hranice na Morave - Horni Lidec - Trenčín - Bratislava - Wolfsthal – Wien

Today I’m crossing these borders
Strelná 🇨🇿 - Strelenka 🇸🇰
Vlárský prusmyk 🇨🇿 - Horné Srnie 🇸🇰
Berg NÖ 🇦🇹 - Bratislava-Petržalka 🇸🇰

Map of today’s route
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-political-tour-autumn-2023_933893#8/48.920/17.562

Today’s Live Blog
https://crossborderrail.trainsforeurope.eu/live-blog-autumn-2023-day-17/

#CrossBorderRail Political Tour Autumn 2023 - uMap

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Here’s today’s intro video from a sunny Hranice https://urbanists.video/w/tDxYajhghxocZRReieeiT9
#CrossBorderRail Autumn 2023 Day 17 Intro

PeerTube
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Hranice has this funky looking bike parking tower at the station. But you have to pay to park there, and the rules how to use it are complicated. And Hranice has few cyclists… So unsurprisingly it’s rather empty!
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#CrossBorderRail Autumn 2023 Train 61
EC 121
08:26 Hranice na Morave - Horni Lidec 09:27
Ceske Drahy / ZSSK

Distance: 64km
Average speed: 63km/h

Train type: Škoda class 361 and Eurocity carriages
⚡️
🚲: ✅ (but high steps)
🦽: ✅ (possible with staff help, a lift, and ordered in advance - thanks @pony for explaining!)
🛜: ✅
🍽️: ✅
🧳: 🤔 (high steps, but ok once inside)
🧽: 🙂

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The timetable Strelenka - Púchov 🇸🇰🤦‍♂️

What the hell happened here? Did ZSSK employ SNCF timetable consultants? #CrossBorderRail

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My EuroCity is delayed due to building works - both electrification upgrades and Vsetín station being rebuilt. I can forgive delays for reasons like this 😊
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Strelná

Border station, Czech side

The problem? No trains to Slovakia 🤦‍♂️

All the trains from Czechia to here… go back to Czechia. The trains to Slovakia are EuroCity trains that don’t stop

#CrossBorderRail fail

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Brumov. Not to be confused with Broumov where I was a few days ago.
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There’s no passenger train for me. But there is freight.
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Svatý Štěpán

Daily trains: zero as far as I’m aware. Once in a while a weekend special to the border

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Thanks EU. Funds the rebuilding of the #CrossBorderRail line Vlárský prusmyk 🇨🇿 - Horné Srnie 🇸🇰 and there are no daily passenger trains
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#CrossBorderRail Autumn 2023 Train 62
EX 604
13:24 Trencin - Bratislava hl.st. 14:33
ZSSK

Distance: 123km
Average speed: 107km/h

Train type: Škoda 361 and coaches
⚡️
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (needs lift on platform)
🛜: ✅
🍽️: ✅
🧳: 🤔 (narrow vestibules and corridors)
🧽: 🙂

Show thread🌺 Cat PöñíçkøvāOct 2, 2023
@jon this is actually class 362, that's different from the slovak 361 (classes registered before 1993 share the same number in czechia and slovakia, 361 is unique to slovakia now), which is a later (as in 2010's) upgrade of class 163 in ZOS Vrutky and differs from the old 362 (which is the original 80's skoda dual-system one) in multiple ways

(I mean, not enough for a passenger to care, except some of them having 160 max speed unlike 140 of class 362)

sorry for the nitpicking
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@pony you always nitpick. And it’s ok. 😊
Show thread🌺 Cat PöñíçkøvāOct 2, 2023
@jon i mean the main reason class 361 exists is the slovak railways plan to convert into 25 kV AC completely which could also be a contributing reason for no crossborder trains from Horni Lidec to Puchov (they converted Puchov in ~2010 and the old CD fake-emu's are not multisystem)
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@pony use a RegioPanter then?
Oct 2, 2023 at 12:44pmWeb
Show thread🌺 Cat PöñíçkøvāOct 2, 2023
@jon new trains are costly and obviously you see regions prioritizing their use where there is more demand and people...
Show threadJon WorthOct 2, 2023
@pony then why bother rebuilding parts of a line?