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
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.
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)
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
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
#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)
Sp 1403
09:31 Zábřeh na Moravě - Lipová Lázně 10:50
Distance: 58.6km
Average speed: 45km/h
8 stops:
Ruda n.Moravou
Hanušovice
Jindřichov na Moravě
Branná
Ostružná
Ramzová
Horní Lipová
Lipová Lázně
This train, mapped: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2025-conclusions-tour_1266988#11/50.0505/16.9993
Second time this year I’m on the Silesian Semmering line. It’s an amazing route on an old train with opening windows. #FensterAuf #CrossBorderRail
Bus type: IVECO Crossway high floor
⛽️
🚲: ⛔️
🦽: ❓(there’s space on board but no obvious ramp or lift)
🛜: ⛔️
🍽️: ⛔️
🧳: 🙂 (hold and overhead racks)
🧽: 🙂
Route of the vehicle: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2025-conclusions-tour_1266988#12/50.3112/17.1149
Distance: 40.4km
Est. duration: 2:45
This bike route, mapped: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2025-conclusions-tour_1266988#13/50.4193/17.2101
It’s long gone. Nice water tower though.
Flood damage being repaired at Velká Kraš #CrossBorderRail
Nothing stopped here for a while #CrossBorderRail
Joyous #CrossBorderRail day today. Little hope for the railways but it’s a super area to cycle.
Train type: Kolzam Regiovan SA109 2 short carriages
⛽️
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (train is accessible but Nysa station wasn’t)
🛜: ⛔️
🍽️: ⛔️
🧳: 🙂 (fine, doors also wide)
🧽: 🙂
🎫 Interrail: 🙂 (accepted)
R 46625
15:20 Nysa - Brzeg 16:22
Distance: 47.4km
Average speed: 46km/h
10 stops:
Myśliczyn
Pakosławice
Skoroszyce
Chróścina Nyska
Stary Grodków
Grodków Śląski
Lipowa Śląska
Czeska Wieś
Olszanka
Brzeg
This train, mapped: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2025-conclusions-tour_1266988#11/50.6656/17.4043
And really Regio Van is one of the worst trains you can take. Especially this one not renovated that has rock hard seats. Single axles with poor suspension on bad track. Damn it’s bumpy.
Train type: Pesa modernised Pafawag EN57AL EMU, 3 carriages
⚡️ (3kV dc)
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (on board lift)
🛜: ⛔️ (there’s a sticker, but no network)
🍽️: ⛔️
🧳: 🙂
🧽: 🙂
🎫 Interrail: 🙂 (accepted)
R 66313
16:32 Brzeg - Wrocław Główny 17:08
Distance: 41.4km
Average speed: 69km/h
8 stops:
Lipki
Oława
Oława Zachodnia
Lizawice
Zębice Wrocławskie
Święta Katarzyna
Wrocław Brochów
Wrocław Główny
This train, mapped: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2025-conclusions-tour_1266988#12/50.9756/17.2545
Train type: Siemens Vectron locomotive, 4 carriages
⚡️ (3kV dc)
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (lift on board)
🛜: ✅
🍽️: ⛔️ (none, trolley once we get to Czechia later)
🧳: 😐 (narrow doors and corridors)
🧽: 🙂
🎫 Interrail: 🙂 or 😐 (it’s theoretically compulsory but I wasn’t asked to show it. It’s €3 to reserve (75 CZK))
EC 265
17:15 Wrocław Główny - Praha hl.n. 21:10
Distance: 325.5km
Average speed: 83km/h
13 stops:
Strzelin
Kamieniec Ząbkowicki
Kłodzko Miasto
Bystrzyca Kłodzka
Międzylesie
Lichkov
Jablonne nad Orlici
Letohrad
Usti nad Orlici
Pardubice hl.n.
Kolin
Praha-Liben
Praha hl.n.
This train, mapped: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2025-conclusions-tour_1266988#9/50.5380/15.7554
About the other new #CrossBorderRail line for me earlier: Kalków Laka 🇵🇱 - Vidnava 🇨🇿
This one you can more easily find remnants of it. But while bridges are still there they’re in a bad state, and embankments collapsing. You’d need to re-build c. 30km to Nysa. And Nysa itself is a rail backwater.
This is a bonfire demo instance for testing purposes
