There is a “highway” for trains from the line through Vysočina, Pardubice has lost dozens of connections – ČT24 – Czech Television
Due to earlier departures from Prague towards Brno and later arrivals from Brno to Prague, two pairs of trains that run directly from Vienna or Budapest to Berlin do not run to Prague Central Station. They stop only in Holešovice. Compared to the past, when locomotives were exchanged in Holešovice, there was a break of about a quarter of an hour, but the Vindobona and Hungaria connections have only a short stop in Prague.
It is unpleasant that neither the transit Vindobona from Berlin nor Hungaria is set up in Kolín (nor the Queen Pole in Brno), so those who do not perform in Holešovice on the assumption that they will ride at the main railway station will actually exit at the main railway station, but only at Brno.
The whole thing also means that the trains run from Prague to Brno – at České dráhy it is an Ex3 line – they have stopped serving Pardubice, and therefore Česká Třebová. However, connections with Prague and Brno remained for Pardubice and Třebová. It is possible to travel to Prague by express trains in the direction from Olomouc, transport to Brno providing express trains and from Česká Třebová also by express trains.
There is also a torso of express trains Prague-Brno running through Pardubice, but only in the form of connections in the outskirts of the day, such as train IC Jiří Bouda, which departs from Prague at midnight and arrives in Brno before three at night, or connects the Brno Dragon with departure from Brno to Prague before half past four in the morning.
Pardubice lost 53 connections
A total of 27 trains are diverted to another line in the direction of Brno and 26 in the direction of Prague. All of them have so far built in Pardubice, which has lost about a quarter of the total number of trains to Prague and three quarters of connections to Brno. Instead of four direct connections Pardubice – Brno, only one runs every two hours.
Czech Railways, ie the Ministry of Transport, is not going to strengthen other trains yet. At a time when trains are often almost empty due to pandemic measures, it would not make much sense. There is no concrete outlook for the future yet. “We will continue to regularly monitor the interest in individual connections in cooperation with customers, and we are ready to operationally increase their operations if necessary,” said Czech Railways spokesman Robert Pagan.