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České dráhy (English: Czech Railways), often shortened to ČD, is the major railway operator in the Czech Republic providing regional and long-distance services.. The company was established in January 1993, shortly after the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, as a successor of the Czechoslovak State Railways.
Leo Express long-distance trains shown in black. Leo Express, formerly known as Rapid Express, is an open-access train operator in the Czech Republic, established in 2010. It launched inter-city services in November 2012 on the Prague–Ostrava route, on which state-owned operator Czech Railways and open-access operator RegioJet were already ...
Prague (Czech Republic) Split (Croatia) 1220/1221 RegioJet: 1,406 km 8 Daily in summer 21 hrs 5 mins Villach (Austria) Edirne (Turkey) Optima Tours: 1,400 km (approximate) 0 1-2 times a week in summer 34 hrs Vienna (Austria) Paris (France) NJ 468/469 ÖBB: 1,320 km 9 3 times a week 13 hrs 57 mins Hamburg (Germany)
Rail transport in the Czech Republic carried 193.5 million passengers in 2019, [2] and 68.37 million tonnes of cargo in the year 2009. [3] The majority of passenger services run nowadays are operated by the state company České dráhy (Czech Railways), which until 2007 also managed cargo services now run by ČD Cargo .
Sign panel displaying abbreviations of train categories Information display indicating the train's category and number (IC 86). In Europe, railway companies assign trains to different categories or train types depending on their role, [1] i.e. based on the used rolling stock, their speed (high-speed, higher-speed, conventional), distance of travel (long, medium, short), stopping frequency ...
Esko Prague is a commuter rail or S-Bahn system, part of the Prague Integrated Transport (PID), serving the city of Prague and the surrounding areas of the Central Bohemian Region. Train lines that are included in the PID system are labeled by letter S (or R) and a number, e.g. S1 or S88.
Since December 2018 there is a daily direct Intercity-Express high-speed train between Vienna and Berlin via Linz, Passau and Erfurt. [1] The name Vindobona is now used for Railjet trains between Prague and Graz via Vienna operated by České dráhy and Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB). This route has been again extended to Berlin from mid-2020.
Czech Republic–Russia relations are the bilateral foreign relations between the Czech Republic and the Russian Federation.Relations have substantially deteriorated in recent years due to events such as the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014, Russian sabotage of Czech ammunition depot in Vrbětice in 2014, poisoning of Sergei Skripal in 2018 and Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022.