shredder1
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Czech Republic and Slovakia, Day 9. Sunday 19th June 2022.
The purpose of this trip was mainly to concentrate on traversing a few of the narrow-gauge lines which were still on my bucket list, plus a few more branch lines and the obligatory shed bashing. I was essentially playing it by ear and did spend a lot of time traveling around Slovakia and spreading a few more of my mate Rob`s ashes around on my travels.
I was up early in the Garni Hotel, Slovakia, and since I had to practically walk past Zilina sheds on the way to the station, I called in for a few quick snaps in morning sunshine. I then caught the 07.24 from Zilina to Bohumin and paid a visit to the depot, which was nice and quiet on a Sunday morning, and I got around without issue.
My next move was a train down to Ostrava Hl n for a shed visit, which was essentially what I was doing on this day, shed bashing. After a great visit I next caught a train down to Brno with a change for Breclav and another shed visit. Breclav was the busiest Id seen it for some time, which was probably due to the engineering work taking place between Breclav and Prerov.
From Breclav I boarded a train to Prerov and later onto Olomouc. I decided to go into the town for a meal and was surprised just how far the town centre was away from the railway station, normally a tram takes you from the station to the town centre, but the main tram line was being renovated and at the time I wasn’t sure which tram I could catch, or indeed how far the town centre was away, so I walked.
The town centre was lovely and well worth the walk, and I took an excellent meal in one of the restaurants, a prime steak with all the trimmings. After tea I found out that you could get a tram from the centre to the railway station on another route, so I made my way to the tram stop, talk about a small world, I bumped into fellow Mancunian and crank, Peter Heppenstall, what a small world we indeed live in. The trams are free for our age group in Olomouc, so we took advantage, Peter was staying at an hotel near the station and that’s were we left each other. I caught a late Railjet back to Ostrava Hl n, as I was catching an early morning train into Prague. It had been a busy day shed bashing and I was feeling the strain and had a few hours to wait until my train was due, so nodded off in the station waiting room for an hour or so. It had been a great day.
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The purpose of this trip was mainly to concentrate on traversing a few of the narrow-gauge lines which were still on my bucket list, plus a few more branch lines and the obligatory shed bashing. I was essentially playing it by ear and did spend a lot of time traveling around Slovakia and spreading a few more of my mate Rob`s ashes around on my travels.
I was up early in the Garni Hotel, Slovakia, and since I had to practically walk past Zilina sheds on the way to the station, I called in for a few quick snaps in morning sunshine. I then caught the 07.24 from Zilina to Bohumin and paid a visit to the depot, which was nice and quiet on a Sunday morning, and I got around without issue.
My next move was a train down to Ostrava Hl n for a shed visit, which was essentially what I was doing on this day, shed bashing. After a great visit I next caught a train down to Brno with a change for Breclav and another shed visit. Breclav was the busiest Id seen it for some time, which was probably due to the engineering work taking place between Breclav and Prerov.
From Breclav I boarded a train to Prerov and later onto Olomouc. I decided to go into the town for a meal and was surprised just how far the town centre was away from the railway station, normally a tram takes you from the station to the town centre, but the main tram line was being renovated and at the time I wasn’t sure which tram I could catch, or indeed how far the town centre was away, so I walked.
The town centre was lovely and well worth the walk, and I took an excellent meal in one of the restaurants, a prime steak with all the trimmings. After tea I found out that you could get a tram from the centre to the railway station on another route, so I made my way to the tram stop, talk about a small world, I bumped into fellow Mancunian and crank, Peter Heppenstall, what a small world we indeed live in. The trams are free for our age group in Olomouc, so we took advantage, Peter was staying at an hotel near the station and that’s were we left each other. I caught a late Railjet back to Ostrava Hl n, as I was catching an early morning train into Prague. It had been a busy day shed bashing and I was feeling the strain and had a few hours to wait until my train was due, so nodded off in the station waiting room for an hour or so. It had been a great day.
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