[Czech Republic] Railways

[OettingerCroat]

very cool threads cz's/sk's/hu's.... wishing you all best of luck from your southern ally Croatia

[kokpit]

Pozdrav do Hrvatska

updates for new connection project in Prague

[Timoth12]

The estacades are very nice from the esthetic point of view.

Btw, is it the Škoda made train on the third and eight picture?

[lukasHa]

Originally Posted by Timoth12

The estacades are very nice from the esthetic point of view.

Btw, is it the Škoda made train on the third and eight picture?

Yes, I think its the Skoda 471

[kokpit]

Updates of New connection project in Prague, photos taken at October

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[kokpit]

Railways modernisation across entire Czechia

1st corridor

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Břeclav-Czech/Slovakia border
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bridges over river Dyje

[Marek.kvackaj]

New fast train to connect Bratislava and Prague..also to Wien

AS OF December 10, a so-called Pendolino fast train will start operating on a regular line connecting Bratislava and Prague.

Passengers will get to Prague from the Slovak capital in three hours and 49 minutes. The train travels at speeds of over 100 kilometers per hour and in selected places will go as fast as 160 kilometers per hour, Sme wrote.

The train connection will be operated under the name SC Slovenská strela (SC Slovak missile) by the Czech and Slovak railway companies České dráhy and Železničná spoločnosť Slovensko.

The new Pendolino connection will be 22 minutes faster than the current fastest connection, the Euro City Slovenská strela.

[Timoth12]

Yes, it seems, that December 10 is the final and official date. Here is also a good article in Czech and Slovak on www.vlaky.net including photogallery.: http://www.vlaky.net/servis/sprava.asp?lang=1&id=1506. I took Pendolino from Břeclav to Brno in Summer, can´t wait to to travel to Praha by rail occasionally.

[kokpit]

I think that this project with pendolino will suffer a big loss. Tickets are much more expensive than bus, normal train or even car with two people inside. It's aprox. same comfortable as normal Eurocity train and only a bit faster. So I don't see any advantages about this train. I even saw that they operate with only about four wagons in one train between Prague and Ostrava, there is simply little demand...

[Marek.kvackaj]

That true what you wrote here about demant ...let see maybe in near future goes ticket a bit down..
just is a bit weird that on line connecting Bratislava and Prague is cut down by only 20minutes...consider that Pendollino train coast 5billion SKK...its seem too early for that developed train to be here...but maybe on other hand will increase
spending on Raillways..so good luck for future here in Slovakia

[Timoth12]

Well, in CZ is this train operating more than 1 year, maybe two years, if I am not mistaken. Anyway, one of the big advantages is that you avoid traffic jams, because the train drives directly to the city center and in the mornings and evenings it is just impossible to get to Prague and also Bratislava by car without substantial time loss. Also in the future the train will probably drive even faster. You can also save your time, instead of driving you can work or just relax in train,while during driving a car it is impossible.

[kokpit]

Originally Posted by Marek.kvackaj

That true what you wrote here about demant ...let see maybe in near future goes ticket a bit down..
just is a bit weird that on line connecting Bratislava and Prague is cut down by only 20minutes...consider that Pendollino train coast 5billion SKK...its seem too early for that developed train to be here...but maybe on other hand will increase
spending on Raillways..so good luck for future here in Slovakia

Yes, I think the same. May be prize of the tickets will go down, but then there's no chance of recoverability of costs of these pendolinos... Most profitable should be route Berlin-Prague-Vienna-(Bratislava/Budapest) but we will only see...

[kokpit]

Originally Posted by Timoth12

Well, in CZ is this train operating more than 1 year, maybe two years, if I am not mistaken. Anyway, one of the big advantages is that you avoid traffic jams, because the train drives directly to the city center and in the mornings and evenings it is just impossible to get to Prague and also Bratislava by car without substantial time loss. Also in the future the train will probably drive even faster. You can also save your time, instead of driving you can work or just relax in train,while during driving a car it is impossible.

Yes, that's general advantage of any train, but theses pendolinos were simply too much expensive to buy. Normal train with comparable quality is better option since the ticket is two times cheaper.

[kokpit]

updates of "New connection" project in Prague

[Marek.kvackaj]

testovala prototypová vývojová jednotka FLIRT
testing of new prototyp Siemens max speed 160km/h for czech railways and same ordred also Hungarian railways
and few fotos for courious forumers

[kokpit]

^It's not for czech railways, it had been only tested in Czech Republic at special circuit.

[slawek15]

I thought that it's Stadler that makes Flirt, not Siemens.
Btw, Polish Railways also ordered some Flirts.

[Marek.kvackaj]

Worldwide production of Tram cars

Company and part of worldwide production in %
Bombardier 35 %
Alstom 22 %
Siemens 17 %
Skoda Plzen (Czech republic)10 % good result congratulation
Ostatní výrobci 16 %

Poznámka: Podíl na prodeji v letech 2002 až 2006. Během tohoto období bylo ve světě prodáno celkem 1460 tramvajových souprav.

source:http://www.profit.cz/clanek.php?iArt=21157&iSearch=

[kokpit]

^ that's good, thank you Marek for info. Only God know for how long will they retain this market share.

[Rebasepoiss]

OH MY GOD!!! You've got some pretty sick railway and highway constructions going on over there... . I definetly have to visit Czech Republic again some day. Where do you get all the money needed for these constructions?