Railjet and InterJet will also run between Prague and Ostrava
December 9, 2022, thread
9.12. – Railjet also takes passengers between Prague and Ostrava. In the first half of the new timetable, one pair of InterCity connections will serve Ostravan. One pair of connections will also be provided by the state-of-the-art Czech Railways InterJet train.
“Due to closures on the line between Prague and Berlin, we will have one railjet set available in the first half of next year for the evening turnaround of the Ostravan connections. We will deploy the railjet unit here in the InterCity category and it will offer passengers the services that our customers are used to from the railjet Vindobona connections,” said Jiří Ješeta, a member of the board of directors and deputy general director of ČD for passenger transport.
The railjet unit will serve IC 516 connections Ostravan Bohumín (5:05 a.m.) – Ostrava hl.n. (5:13) – Ostrava-Svinov (5:21) – Olomouc hl.n. (6:14) – Pardubice hl.n. (7:33) – Prague-Libeň (8:27) – Prague hl.n. (8:34), in the opposite direction it will be deployed on the IC 517 link Ostravan Prague hl.n. (19:34) – Prague-Libeň (19:41) – Pardubice hl.n. (20:30) – Olomouc hl.n. (21:48) – Ostrava-Svinov (22:37) – Ostrava hl.n. (22:45) – Bohumín (22:53). Railjet will operate these trains daily from the timetable change until 30 June 2023. The train will be mandatorily reserved and will offer the usual services of railjet sets: dining car, Wi-Fi, children’s cinema, possibility to recharge travel electronics, seats for people in wheelchairs or for transport bicycles etc.
One InterJet set will also be deployed between Prague and Ostrava. The most modern Czech Railways train will continue to serve IC 506 Ostravan Ostrava hl.n. (13:13) – Ostrava-Svinov (13:21) – Olomouc hl.n. (14:14) – Pardubice hl.n. (15:33) – Prague-Libeň (16:27) – Prague hl.n. (16:34) and IC 503 Ostravan Prague hl.n. (9:34 a.m.) – Prague-Libeň (9:41 a.m.) – Pardubice hl.n. (10:31) – Olomouc hl.n. (11:48) – Ostrava-Svinov (12:37) – Ostrava hl.n. (12:45 p.m.). The flight will offer all the services common to modern InterJet units, such as on-board Wi-Fi, the possibility to recharge travel electronics, a children’s cinema, places for people in wheelchairs or a minibar. The trains are equipped with special windows that allow the mobile signal to easily pass into the interior of the train and thus ensure easier phone calls and data reception during the ride.
In the 2023 timetable, České dráhy will offer SC Pendolino connections, very fast IC Ostravan and Opavan connections with mandatory reservations and a standard EC/IC connection with multiple stops on the backbone line Ostrava – Olomouc – Pardubice – Prague. The fastest connections cover the route Prague – Ostrava in 3 hours 3 minutes, in the opposite direction in 3 hours 13 minutes.
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