Between Prague and Ostrava also by railjet and InterJet – Cysnews
Railjet also takes passengers between Prague and Ostrava. In the first half of the new timetable, one pair of InterCity connections will serve Ostrava. 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 railjet Vindobona connections.” says Jiří Ješeta, member of the board of directors and deputy director general of ČD for passenger transport.
The railjet unit will serve IC 516 connections Ostrava 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 connection Ostrava 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: restaurant 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 connections Ostrava 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 Ostrava 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 through the interior of the train, making it easier to make phone calls and receive data while driving.
České dráhy will offer SC Pendolino connections, very fast IC connections on the backbone line Ostrava – Olomouc – Pardubice – Prague in the 2023 timetable Ostrava AND Opavan with mandatory reservation and standard EC/IC connections with multiple stops. 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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