Czech rail records
This is the list of Czech rail records. Dates in brackets indicate when the record was reached or when the railway infrastructure was put into operation.
First horse-drawn railway
Railway
First railway (steam powered)
First section of the
Maximum gradient of a rail line
Gradient 58 ‰ on
The lowest railway station
Station
The highest railway station
Station Kubova Huť, 995 m (3,264 ft) above sea level, on line Strakonice–Volary[1] (15 October 1893)
The longest tunnel
Ejpovice Tunnel, 4,150 m (13,620 ft) long, on line Prague–Plzeň (15 November 2018)
The longest bridge/viaduct
Negrelli Viaduct (also called Karlín Viaduct), 1,111 m (3,645 ft) long, on rail section Prague Masaryk station-Prague Bubny (1 June 1850)
Bridge with the highest span
Míru Bridge (Dolní Loučky), span 110 m, line Břeclav–Havlíčkův Brod (20 December 1953)
The highest bridge/viaduct
Viaduct Červená nad Vltavou, 68 m high, line Tábor–Ražice (21 November 1889)
The highest operating line speed
Speed 160 km/h in sections of transit corridors
The fastest electric rail vehicle
Unit ČD 680.001 Pendolino reached top speed 237 km/h between Brno and Břeclav (18 November 2004)
The fastest electric locomotive
Locomotive 469.4 ČSD, reached top speed 219 km/h on the
The fastest diesel rail vehicle
Locomotive
The fastest steam locomotive
Locomotive 498.106 ČSD, nicknamed Albatross, reached top speed 162 km/h on the Velim railway test circuit (27 August 1964)[4]
References
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- ^ Řada 124 ( E469.4 ) VUZ (in Czech)
- ^ Журнал «Локомотив» № 1 Январь 2007 (in Russian) Archived 29 March 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Malec, Miroslav; Martínek, Michal (1984). Naše lokomotivy [Our locomotives] (in Czech). Prague: Albatros. p. 94.