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On 29 January 1972, a passenger train pair ran between Dresden and Děčín for the first time since 1945. At the same time an express service was introduced to Prague which allowed day trippers to visit the Czech capital of Prague. [3] From 1973 the line from Dresden to Pirna was integrated into the new S-Bahn tariff zone. In subsequent years ...
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)
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 ...
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.
The history of rail transport in the territory of the present-day Czech Republic dates back to the Austro-Hungarian empire.The first horse-drawn railway in Europe, between České Budějovice and Linz (in present-day Austria) commenced operations in 1832, [5] and the first locomotive-hauled railway from Vienna to Břeclav opened seven years later.
A fast train collided with a truck in eastern Czech Republic on Wednesday, killing one person and injuring at least 19 people, officials said. The Czech Railways said the driver of the train was ...
On January 11, 2008, China, Mongolia, Russia, Belarus, Poland, and Germany agreed to collaborate on a cargo train service between Beijing and Hamburg. [ 39 ] The railway can typically deliver containers in 1 ⁄ 3 to 1 ⁄ 2 of the time of a sea voyage, and in late 2009 announced a 20% reduction in its container shipping rates.