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Welcome to today's thread - 2025 #CrossBorderRail Conclusions Tour Day 03 - Praha - Zábřeh na Moravě - Lipová Lázně - Bernartice u Javorníka - Nysa - Brzeg - Wrocław - Praha

Today's new borders:
Kalków Laka 🇵🇱 - Vidnava 🇨🇿
Dziewietlice 🇵🇱 - Bernartice u Javorníka 🇨🇿

Today's re-visited borders:
Miedzylesie 🇵🇱 - Lichkov 🇨🇿

Borders map, inc. borders re-visited:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-all-the-borders_935041#13/50.3899/17.1418

Today's trains on the routes map:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2025-conclusions-tour_1266988?scaleControl=false&miniMap=false&scrollWheelZoom=true&zoomControl=true&editMode=disabled&moreControl=true&searchControl=null&tilelayersControl=null&embedControl=null&datalayersControl=true&onLoadPanel=datalayers&captionBar=false&captionMenus=true&datalayers=1db6a187-f5f3-4a24-9121-bf7db131f26d#9/50.4120/16.0455

Jon Worth

@[email protected] replied · 15 hours ago

An extra Interrail day, so that means more borders! Two dismantled lines at the Poland-Czechia border, and some great routes there and back, including the Slezský Semmering Hanušovice-Horní Lipová, and the Baltic Express from Wrocław Główny back to Praha.

Konsonantenboy

@[email protected] replied · 14 hours ago

@jon I took the Baltic Express last week, very nice views over the Kłodzko Valley and in Czechia. Have a nice trip!

Jon Worth

@[email protected] replied · 15 hours ago

#CrossBorderRail Conclusions Tour Train 8 of 75
EC 123
07:22 Praha hl.n. - Zábřeh na Moravě 09:18
ČD

Train type: Siemens Vectron locomotive, 5 carriages
⚡️ (3kV dc)
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (lift on board)
🛜: ✅
🍽️: ✅ (dining car)
🧳: 😐 (doors narrow, hard to get in)
🧽: 😐 (windows grimy, interior ok)

🎫 Interrail: 🙂 (accepted)

Jon Worth

@[email protected] replied · 15 hours ago

EC 123
07:22 Praha hl.n. - Zábřeh na Moravě 09:18

Distance: 202.7km
Average speed: 105km/h

5 stops:
Praha-Libeň
Kolín
Pardubice hl.n.
Česká Třebová
Zábřeh na Moravě

This train, mapped: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2025-conclusions-tour_1266988#9/49.9813/15.4660

#CrossBorderRail

Jon Worth

@[email protected] replied · 14 hours ago

Rather German experience in the dining car. Mobile signal is too weak and the payment terminal won’t connect. I held it at the window for the employee! 😀 #CrossBorderRail

Timo Hetzel

@[email protected] replied · 8 hours ago

@jon no reason to insist on online connection. Airplanes use offline terminals just fine.

Petr Tesařík

@[email protected] replied · 10 hours ago

@jon Pff. In Czechia, dining coach employees already know where it's necessary to open the window and hold the terminal outside.

Jon Worth

@[email protected] replied · 13 hours ago

#CrossBorderRail Conclusions Tour Train 9 of 75
Sp 1403
09:31 Zábřeh na Moravě - Lipová Lázně 10:50
ČD

Train type: ČKD, CZ LOKO 750.7 locomotive 🤿, 4 carriages
⛽️
🚲: ✅
🦽: ❓(there is a lift on the platform but no obvious space on board)
🛜: ⛔️
🍽️: ⛔️
🧳: 😐 (hard to get in, narrow steps)
🧽: 🙂

🎫 Interrail: 🙂 (accepted)