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The Dresden‒Prague high-speed line is a series of upgrades to reduce the train travel time by one hour between Dresden, Germany and Prague, Czech Republic, scheduled for construction after 2032. [ 1 ]
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.
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 .
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 ...
This line will the superseded by a 42 km (26.1 miles), Dresden-Prague high speed rail line as a part of the Trans-European high-speed rail network. The line would have a maximum speed of 200 km/h (124.3 mph) and reduce travel time along the corridor. [6] In 2017, the Government of the Czech Republic approved a high-speed rail development program.
The Czech Republic has, in total, 55,653 km (34,581 mi) [2] of roads. It has 1,247 km (775 mi) [ 3 ] of motorways. In the 1980s and 1990s there was a significant increase in passenger transport on the roads in the Czech Republic, which was associated with a sharp increase in the accident rate.
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.
Further development of RT-200, Nevsky Express train of TVZ pulled by Czech ChS-200 locomotive, entered into commercial service in 2001, connecting two major cities in 4 hrs 10 mins at 200 km/h. It was planned for retirement, but instead was renovated, provided with newer EP-20 locomotive of Transmashkholding and remains in service as the lower ...