Welcome to today's thread - #CrossBorderRail to/from #LongestTrainEU Day 16 - 27 Sep - Košice - Čadca - Ostrava - Opava - Pilszcz - Třemešná ve Slezsku - Osoblaha - Racławice Śląskie - Kędzierzyn-Koźle

[jon@gruene.social]

#CrossBorderRail to/from #LongestTrainEU Train 37 of 49
Ex 502
05:34 Košice - Žilina 08:31
ZSSK

: Škoda Gorilla 350 locomotive, 10 carriages
️ (25kV ac, 3kV dc)
:
🦽: (lift on board)
🛜:
️:
🧳: (platform high enough at Košice to make it ok)
🧽:
Interrail: (compulsory res, €2)

[jon@gruene.social]

Ex 502
05:34 Košice - Žilina 08:31

Distance: 241.7km
Avg speed: 82km/h

5 stops:
Kysak
Spišská Nová Ves
Poprad-Tatry
Liptovský Mikuláš
Žilina

mapped: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-autumn-2026-inc-longest-train-jour_1443266#9/48.975094/20.008216

#CrossBorderRail #LongestTrainEU

[jon@gruene.social]

Two of today's #CrossBorderRail borders are box ticking

Cieszyn Marklovice - Albrechtice u Českého Tesina
was a freight line, here:
https://openrailwaymap.org/?style=standard&lat=49.79087873639476&lon=18.597536087036133&zoom=15
But that would serve no purpose today, and the bridge is missing

Mszana - Bohumín is a future line, but construction has not started https://openrailwaymap.org/?style=standard&lat=49.91939873027269&lon=18.445444107055664&zoom=14

[jon@gruene.social]

Satellite view of Cieszyn Marklovice - Albrechtice u Českého Tesina https://www.google.com/maps/@49.7915288,18.5971929,545m/data=!3m1!1e3!5m1!1e4?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDkyMy4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D #CrossBorderRail

[jon@gruene.social]

There’s no overhead electricity today in Žilina so a 🤿 diesel locomotive was put on the front… #CrossBorderRail

[jon@gruene.social]

And it needs some help on the back #CrossBorderRail

https://peertube.netzbegruenung.de/w/5QuhzmrjnTszbzGK14N5qk

[partim@social.tchncs.de]

@jon I was wondering, why the Eurocity only starts in Čadca.

[jon@gruene.social]

#CrossBorderRail to/from #LongestTrainEU Train 38 of 49
Os 7544
09:17 Žilina - Čadca 09:56
ZSSK

: ČKD 754 diesel locomotive, 6 carriages
️
:
🦽: (lift on board)
🛜: ️
️: ️
🧳:
🧽:
Interrail: (accepted)

[jon@gruene.social]

Os 7544
09:17 Žilina - Čadca 09:56

Distance: 30.7km
Avg speed: 47km/h

9 stops:
Brodno
Rudina
Kysucke Nove Mesto
Ochodnica
Dunajov
Krasno nad Kysucou
Oscadnica
Cadca mesto
Cadca

mapped: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-autumn-2026-inc-longest-train-jour_1443266#11/49.336100/18.785532

#CrossBorderRail #LongestTrainEU

[jon@gruene.social]

@partim now we know

[hatetsu@mastodon.com.pl]

@jon Is… is that a psychic locomotive? Damn, need to know better than to underestimate the Slovaks

[jon@gruene.social]

This Žilina - Čadca train is normally a 4 carriage EMU with 6 powered axles and about 2000kW of power

Here we have 1400kW, diesel, and 6 carriages, and it’ll weigh a lot more. So we‘re behind schedule…

[jon@gruene.social]

I left Košice 30 mins earlier than planned this morning, conscious something was wrong Žilina - Čadca, and not wanting to trust a tight connection

I made the right call I think

[jon@gruene.social]

Čadca

The station is run down but it’s an amazing brutalist mountain construction

[jon@gruene.social]

Čadca details

[grouchox@freeradical.zone]

@jon cool

[ccferrie@mastodon.ie]

@jon I love that building! It's like a church for trains.

[annasdtc@sciences.social]

@jon what a pretty station!!

[annehargreaves@ioc.exchange]

@jon So clean!

[tursiae@meow.social]

@jon You come across some real architectural gems in your travels. It's been lovely to see from across the pond.