Trains from Olomouc to Prague will be speeded up, electric trains will go to Umperk
A state-of-the-art train will run on the Prague Olomouc – Ostrava line for the fifth year eskch roads (D) InterJet.
From December 11, transport from Prague to central and northern Moravia accelerated in the new road. The fastest connections of the Czech railways will cover the journey from Prague to Olomouc in 2 hours and 14 minutes, said the speaker D Petr hlavsk.
Due to storms on the line between Prague and Berlin, we will have one Railjet set available in the first half of the fifth year for the evening turnaround of the Ostravan connection. We will deploy the Railjet unit here in the InterCity category and offer passengers the services they are used to from Railjet Vindobona connections, explained Ji Jeeta, member of the board of directors and deputy general editor D.
Railjet will run on the main route until June 30, 2023. The train will require passengers and will offer the usual services of Railjet sets: on-board restaurant, Wi-Fi, children’s cinema, the possibility of recharging travel electronics, places for people in wheelchairs or for transporting bicycles, noted the speaker .
One InterJet set will be deployed between Prague and Ostrava. Trains are free with special windows that allow easy passage of a mobile signal into the interior of the train and thus prevent attempts to make phone calls and receive data during the ride, Hlavsk said.
In the 2023 timetable, SC Pendolino connections, very fast IC Ostravan and Opavan connections with mandatory reservations, and standard EC/IC connections with more stops will be introduced on the Ostrava Olomouc Pardubice Prague line.
The fleet will grow
On Sunday, December 11, a new day will start to apply on the railway. In the Olomouc region, the scope of regional transport of the Czech railways will remain at a similar level as in the current one. The vehicle fleet will increase for the fifth year and at the beginning of 2024 by 27 new RegioPanters, said Petr Pota from the press department of D.
The carrier first deployed RegioPantery on the new electrified line from Olomouc to Uniov before Christmas. In the course of the year, these modern trains will replace the old sets on other five lines in the region. The new driving license will be valid until December 9, 2023, the spokesman said.
The graph of the new roadway in addition to the start of electric operation on the modernized line slo 290 from Olomouc to Umperek.
From the 11th to the 19th of December, the newly opened section from Umperka to Uniova will have a dream track speed. In connection with this, it will take me 10 to 15 minutes to get to the lower individual connections, Pota pointed out. BN operation will be closed from December 20.
Deployed on track 290 forward two-wheeled electric unit RegioPanter and electric locomotive series 362 with classic set. This is a pedestrian equivalent until the new RegioPanter weekly units for the Olomouc region from Vroby. The first delivery of these vehicles is expected in April 2023, the spokesman indicated.
From June 2023, dynamite will start to be used on this line, and it will take full advantage of modernized railway infrastructure with state-of-the-art train safety ETCS and the dynamic properties of the new electric units.
New weekends will be connected to the main winter holidays, so wait for the Rychleb Mountains. D, in cooperation with the Olomouc region, will offer weekends connected by train Sp 1413 departing from Olomouc at 7:52 a.m. and returning to Olomouc at 8:06 p.m., the spokesman revealed.