🎉 From December: easier #CrossBorderRail connections from Dresden 🇩🇪 to Kraków 🇵🇱
🤔 With a change in... errr... Ruhland (population: 3734)
😡 What?
Let me explain... starting with a map!
The new 2x a day Leipzig 🇩🇪 - Wrocław 🇵🇱 - Kraków 🇵🇱 - Przemyśl 🇵🇱 train will take the line shown in green, not red
News from:
Dresdener Neue Nachrichten
https://www.dnn.de/lokales/dresden/neuer-eurocity-nach-polen-so-kommt-dresden-zum-zug-INI63Y5MO5EHHM3BG5YQEW3JJA.html
VVO
https://www.vvo-online.de/doc/pm/250829_PI_Dresden-Krakau.pdf (PDF)
But why not serve Dresden, Bautzen & Görlitz directly, as they're much more significant than Ruhland & Hoyerswerda that will be served?
Because of THIS
This is the border bridge between Görlitz 🇩🇪 to the left, and Zgorzelec 🇵🇱 to the right - you can see the electrification masts end in the middle
Germany and Poland agreed in 2003 (yes, more than TWENTY years ago) to electrify the whole Dresden - Wrocław corridor, but Germany has STILL NOT STARTED ITS WORKS BETWEEN GÖRLITZ AND THE EDGE OF DRESDEN
So you'd need a diesel locomotive for that section
And something better than these 20 year old DMUs between Dresden and Görlitz would be very welcome as well!
So yeah, Dresden to Kraków via Ruhland is better than how you'd do it currently, but get on and ⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️ between Dresden and Görlitz, please!
/ends
@jon It's the elephant in the room, everyone knows it already. The ESMC CEO said that they can't fix everything
At least the 2 separate traffic associations (VVO+ZVON) got the message and merge
https://www.zvon.de/de/details/zvon-verbandsversammlung-bestaetigt-zvoe-eingliederung
Jon Worth
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