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Train routes operated by České dráhy
12 routes · classic 8 · scenic 3 · mountain 1
České dráhy runs 12 of the routes in the World Train Map atlas, 2,085 km of railway across 1 country. The longest is the SC Pendolino at 356 km; the fastest is the Jižní expres, running up to 200 km/h; the oldest line it runs over here opened in 1862.
The company itself dates to 2003, filed on Wikidata as a railway undertaking. What this page says about the company comes from České dráhy's own Wikidata item, checked against the countries its routes here actually cross before any of it is used; everything about the railway is counted from this atlas. Official site ↗ · Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata Q304944 ↗
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- 12
- Total length
- 2,085 km
- Countries
- Czechia
- Fastest
- Jižní expres · 200 km/h
- Longest
- SC Pendolino · 356 km
- Oldest line here
- 1862
- Company founded
- 2003
- Type
- railway undertaking
Classic (8)
- SC Pendolino
Czechia’s flagship tilting Pendolino links Prague with Moravia’s industrial capital Ostrava via the cathedral city of Olomouc.
Wikipedia ↗ - R9 Vysočina
The slow way to Brno: the 1953-completed Vysočina highland line via Havlíčkův Brod and Žďár, the second main line between the two cities.
Wikipedia (CS) ↗ - Praha–Cheb Express
Heads west through Plzeň, birthplace of Pilsner lager, to the spa-country town of Cheb near the German border.
Wikipedia (CS) ↗ - České dráhy Express
A winding cross-country run to the grand colonnades of Karlovy Vary, the Bohemian spa where Goethe, Beethoven and half of Europe’s royalty took the waters.
Wikipedia ↗ - Ex7 Praha–Český Krumlov
A direct express from Prague to the UNESCO town inside the Vltava’s double bend, over rails laid in 1891 to carry Schwarzenberg timber and graphite rather than tourists.
- R10 Krakonoš
Rychlík from Prague across the Elbe lowlands to Hradec Králové, then up the foothills to Trutnov beneath the Krkonoše mountains.
Wikipedia (CS) ↗ - Jižní expres
Czechia’s first 200 km/h running: the rebuilt Fourth Corridor past Tábor’s Hussite hilltop to the Budweiser city, a record 85 minutes on the fastest Pendolinos.
Wikipedia (CS) ↗ - Plzeň–České Budějovice Railway
The rychlík between Pilsner country and Budweiser country: 136 km through the wooded south Bohemian hills via Strakonice, on rails laid in 1868.
Wikipedia (CS) ↗
Scenic (3)
- R16 Praha–Železná Ruda
Prague to the edge of the Bohemian Forest, ending at a station shared with Bavaria across the border; the 1877 climb to it bored the Špičák tunnel, longest in the Czech lands for 130 years.
- Šumava Railway
The Šumava forest railway: out of Budějovice, past Český Krumlov’s castle bend, along Lake Lipno and up into the Bohemian Forest at Volary.
Wikipedia (CS) ↗ - Posázavský Pacifik
Prague’s “Pacific”, the tramps’ weekend railway of the 1920s: ledges above the Vltava and Sázava canyons and the 41 m Žampach viaduct on the way to Čerčany.
Wikipedia (CS) ↗
Mountain (1)
- Zubačka Rack Railway
Czechia’s only cog railway, climbing the Jizera Mountains on an Abt rack at a gradient of 58‰, a national record.
Wikipedia ↗
Photos via Wikimedia Commons — each route page credits the author & licence
How many train routes does České dráhy run?
12 of the routes in this atlas are České dráhy services, covering 2,085 km across 1 country (Czechia). That is what this atlas draws, not the operator's whole network — a national railway runs thousands of local services no map of notable journeys would list.
What is the fastest České dráhy train?
The Jižní expres, Prague to České Budějovice, at up to 200 km/h. Its fastest scheduled run takes ≈ 1 h 30 min over 169 km.
Does České dráhy run night trains?
Not in this atlas. All 12 České dráhy routes listed here are daytime services.
When was České dráhy founded?
Wikidata records the company's inception as 2003, and files it as a railway undertaking. The oldest railway it runs over in this atlas opened in 1862 — the line and the company are rarely the same age, and this page dates both.
Countries České dráhy runs in
- 🇨🇿 Train routes in Czechia 24 routes