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

[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.

[jon@gruene.social]

@annehargreaves Inside, yes. But the windows high up are rather grimy actually!

[jon@gruene.social]

#CrossBorderRail to/from #LongestTrainEU Train 39 of 49
EC 142
11:01 Čadca - Ostrava-Svinov 12:22
ČD

: Siemens Vectron locomotive, 8 carriages
️ (3kV dc)
:
🦽: (lift on board)
🛜:
️:
🧳: (hellish high steps to get in)
🧽:
Interrail: (ZSSK and Interrail say comp res., ČD and DB say not - mystery)

[jon@gruene.social]

EC 142
11:01 Čadca - Ostrava-Svinov 12:22

Distance: 83.2km
Avg speed: 62km/h

7 stops:
Jablunkov-Navsi
Trinec-Lyzbice
Cesky Tesin
Karvina hl.n.
Bohumín
Ostrava hl.n.
Ostrava-Svinov

mapped: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-autumn-2026-inc-longest-train-jour_1443266#10/49.679477/18.499200

#CrossBorderRail #LongestTrainEU

[jon@gruene.social]

Premium Service in Čadca just now

A shunting locomotive will haul the Praha - Košice express from Čadca via Žilina to Vrútky due to works on the power lines

https://peertube.netzbegruenung.de/w/wm8oE21DYFLmL72Ge4QJwN

[jon@gruene.social]

Old style Knödel Express dining car here! 🥰

[henkvandereijk@mastodon.green]

@jon Probably where you get the best Knödel in the world!

[ianmoore3000@mastodon.ie]

@jon the dumpling express?

[webhat@infosec.exchange]

@jon that looks like the dining car I was in on my trip from Berlin to Warsaw

[jon@gruene.social]

@webhat this is one that used to run Berlin - Praha until c 2 years ago