#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)
🧽: 🙂

The timetable Strelenka - Púchov 🇸🇰🤦‍♂️

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

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

Svatý Štěpán

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

#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)
🧽: 🙂

I must admit the prospect of cycling 55km at the Czech-Slovak border had worried me a little. But more than half was on immaculate EU funded bike lanes, I needn’t have worried

Only the road Horní Lidec - Strelna at the border was nasty due to 🚛 🚛 🚛

Valašské Klobouky - Bylnice and Vlárský prusmyk - Trenčin were impeccable

Sweat 🥵

Despite the delay earlier I made it to Wolfsthal in time for my train - thanks in large part to speedy navigation through Bratislava by @andrew_shadura

Wolfsthal 🇦🇹 - Bratislava 🇸🇰 was one of the original Michael Cramer missing links

And now finally I’ve visited it

It makes a lot of sense to re-open this one - for traffic TO Bratislava. People are now living in Wolfsthal and driving to work in Bratislava. The roads are busy and noisy

There’s one place where there’s a factory on the old track bed, but that’s easily avoided