The Journey of Czech High-Speed Rail
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- čas přidán 22. 05. 2024
- The Czech Republic. A small, central European country of 10,5 million people. A country with a extremely dense rail network, yet no high-speed rail. In this video, we'll look at why that is, the plans for finally making it happen, and why it will probably take a while until the high-speed rail is done.
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Honestly when we'll get to 160kmph in Slovakia the rest of the Europe will be already driving 300kmph.
yeah, that's probable🥲
We're now finally traveling to Slovakia in 160km/h, so this comment is a bit outdated, but I understand your point. Thankfully, the VRT project does actually seem to be moving quite decently now.
thanks for letting me learn more about your country, i really liked the convenience of taking high speed rail when i can (unfortunately the malaysian government is terrible so im not taking the train to kuala lumpur anytime soon)
I'm glad you liked the video!
our government isn't much better either lol, I doubt I'll be able to take HSR to Brno (2. largest city) anytime soon :(
Nice video, keep this up
Thank you!
I wouldn't trust Britannica's definiton: In the UK, the max speed of our trains in 125 mph (1 mph over the definition's requirements)
Interesting! I had to use some definition, and 200 km/h (124mph) sounded like a good number
@@TheTramly Okay! Please don't hurt me!
@@user-vv6vu1xj7t as long as you don't drive a lifted Ford f-650, I won't haha
@@TheTramly Yeah...I don't even have a driving license, also chill out.
nice video. I am from vienna and really love drum and bass, so I travel to you guys like 8 times a year :D We always travel with the rail- or regiojet form vienna to prague. I heard, the EU wanna increase the speed between vienna-prague-berlin, to cut it in half, but since the european announcement I heard nothing. Do you guys in the czech republich here some things about this project in your country or form your politicians?
Well, high speed rail lines from the Austrian border to Brno, then from Brno to Prague, and then from Prague to the German border are planned, but they're not gonna be finished for a long, long time :(
they're supposed to start with the first segment of the Prague-Brno HSR in 2027, but from what I've found on the Czech railway administration website, all 3 of these lines should be completed in the 2040s-2050s, which.... yeah 💀💀
my sources: www.spravazeleznic.cz/vrt
@@TheTramly Thank you for awnsering that quick! Sometimes, especially when its about infrastructure, I don't understand why they just don't take the debts and start building this shit. the same when it comes to green energy and windmills...
it's probably the car lobby (cars are the biggest export of the Czech Republic, by far), and just the lack of political will
with energy, at least they're gonna expand the Dukovany nuclear power plant, so at least we've got that over Germany, we didn't shut our nuclear power plants down and so, we are not that dependent on Russian gas
@@TheTramly Isn't it supposed to start first at 2026?
0:29 Class 680 is not even certified to 230 km/h because there wasn't even track to certify it on, so it's only certified for 200 km/h 😂
😂😂
that's quite a bruh moment from the Czech railways
The same units are going 220 in Portugal, I was going from Lisbon to Porto and it really is the same Pendolino we have. I think they don't care much about some special infrastructure, track looked pretty ordinary to me, like some of our corridors, but instead of 160, it's going 220. 😀
There are tracks to test it on. It can be tested easily in Germany for 230+10% km/h.
@@janvozniak1235 And that would make it certified to run in Germany, not Czech Republic...
@@PtrkHrnk Nope. „Zkousky maximálni zkusebni rychlosti pro rychlost 200 Km/hod., tj. 220 km/hod. budou provedeny na upraveném úseku koridorové trate Vranovice - Breclav za mimorádných bezpenostnich opatiení. V pripade zkousek pro konstrukini rychlost 230, tj. zkusební rychlost 253 km/hod. by bylo nutno radu jízd realizovat v zahranicí. Náklady by tím vzrostly rádove o desítky milionù Kc.“
www.czech-raildays.cz/2004/seminare/v_5.pdf
I also hope that the north-west will get better connected
That is true. I've traveled by train in the northeast and it's... meh, to say the least
@@TheTramly traveling between different cities in north-west is not that bad, honestly, from karlovy vary to east it's always comparable time between car and train. only if you want to get from north-west to any other part of the country is when it gets painful. the routes are indirect because they all go through either Ústí or Cheb, which is why i think the HSR line to most is quite important. the north west is also i'm pretty sure the least developed region of czechia with the least work opportunities so the HSR could help that
I though 160km/h was *kinda* high-speed rail. In my country (Belgium), 160km/h is the fastest regional rail.
160 km/h is definitely a good speed, it's faster than highway speed, but I'd consider "true" HSR to be 200 km/h or more. but that's just my opinion, to be honest
It's enough speed for regional trains in country whih has size like average potato (Belgium), but for trains crossing your country let's say from Germany to France (no WWII jokes pls), 160 is pretty limiting speed. But yeah, 160 is not bad when it's really going 160, but in reality, you stay in middle of nothing and wait because tracks are too bussy.
I know Poland build high speed railways
but they are only limited to 200 km/h
So yea still not the best
3:32 I hope ČD get the AGV. I think it's the best high speed train ever made. But it's terribly underappreciated!
Hope so too!
Our country is called Czechia.
You also said Japan, not the official "State of Japan."
It's just a small detail. And no. Our country is named both the Czech Republic and Czechia. Czechia is just a shorter name. I often hear about the Russian Federation and not just Russia, the Federal Republic of Germany and not just Germany, the French Republic and not just France,...
Both names are right from every perspective and can be used interchangeably. So stop lecturing people.