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European Railroad Discussion > Bratislava Day TripDate: 06/05/19 21:44 Bratislava Day Trip Author: dwatry Staying in Budapest, I decided to do a daytrip to Bratislava for two reasons - to have a beer with a friend, and to ride the various types of Tatra trams running on the Bratislava system. MAV and ZSSK have a cheap 15 Euro one-day roundtrip fare from Budapest to Bratislava (or v.v.) that is supposedly available only on day of travel. I was able to purchase it the night before at Nyugati Palyaudvar in Budapest. Turns out I traveled both directions on the Eurocity train "Hungaria", which is a through train from Budapest to Hamburg, and includes a very nice dining car. Travel was on May 3, 2019.
1) Eurocity 172 "Hungaria" in Bratislava having just arrived from Budapest. Power is a CD (Czech) Class 380 Skoda triple-voltage loco. 2) Interesting route. 3) Hung around Bratislava station for a few trains - this is a Translog Slovakia coal train behind a Class 242, purchased from CD. Love this paint scheme. Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/06/19 12:53 by dwatry. Date: 06/05/19 21:47 Re: Bratislava Day Trip Author: dwatry 4) Translog same train as above.
5) ZSSK Class 240 on a local train. These are 1968 products from Skoda. 6) ZSSK Vectron on train from Zilina. Date: 06/05/19 21:54 Re: Bratislava Day Trip Author: dwatry 7) Tatra T6A5 tram at Blumental stop in center. Tram system is metre-gauge.
8) Two sets of T6A5 trams meeting at 3/5 line terminal at Raca. 9) Looking north at Raca - again with 2 sets of T6A5 trams meeting. Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/05/19 22:02 by dwatry. Date: 06/05/19 22:01 Re: Bratislava Day Trip Author: dwatry 10) Tatra T3SU set outbound at Vinohrady. Note short section of dual-gauge trackage, which seems to have been installed at various locations around the system, presumably as a contingency for any future gauge conversion.
11) ZSSK Skoda EMU at Vinohrady. 12) Tatra K2 set at Vinohrady - shot from ZSSK platform. These cars are rebuilt and look more modern than when originally built. Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/05/19 22:44 by dwatry. Date: 06/05/19 22:06 Re: Bratislava Day Trip Author: dwatry 13) ZSSK Class 263 at Vinohrady with a local train.
14) Inbound T6A5 set at Vinohrady. 15) T3SU set in the center. Date: 06/05/19 22:13 Re: Bratislava Day Trip Author: dwatry 16) Tram lines 1 and 3 go to the southside of the Danube on a new extension that uses a pedestrian, bike and tram-only bridge. Here's a new Skoda 29T ForCity train heading north - about to cross the river.
17) South side terminal at Petrazalka. Note dual-gauge trackage here also. 18) Did manage to grab that beer and a slivovitz with my friend Victor before catching my train back to Budapest. That's me on the left. Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 06/05/19 22:24 by dwatry. Date: 06/05/19 22:23 Re: Bratislava Day Trip Author: dwatry 19) Made my train back to Budapest by about 30 seconds. Grabbed this shot in Sturovo - love art deco signal boxes!
20) Shot on Eurocity 173 "Hungaria" back to Budapest. 21) Train 173 back at Budapest Nyugati, with a CD Class 380 on the point. Date: 06/06/19 05:01 Re: Bratislava Day Trip Author: GPutz Thanks for the tour. Gerry
Date: 06/06/19 09:34 Re: Bratislava Day Trip Author: 86235 Excellent Duncan, those T6A5 Tatras are to die for.
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