Czech Republic: Unsilenced Class 749 loco struggles working Volary-Nove Udoli, Sumava National Park
This collection of videos shows rare and exciting footage of unsilenced Class 749 051 failing whilst working a passenger service from Volary to Nove Udoli in the hot summer of July 2010.
The first clip shows the locomotive restarting after an unscheduled stop and only able to continue at slow speed. The second clip show the loco grinding to a halt in a wooded area and sounding very unheathly indeed!!!
Thankfully the loco recovered and is seen in the final clip reversing into Nove Udoli station ready to return to Praha HLN.
Locomotive number 749 051-9, all clips recorded on 12th July 2010.
Clip 1 - Captured between Dobra na Sumave and Cerny Kriz stations working the 18552 1526 Volary - Nove Udoli service
Clip 2 - Captured between Cerny Kriz & Nove Udoli stations working the 18552 1526 Volary - Nove Uoli service
Clip 3 - Propelling stock back into Nove Udoli station ready to work the R891 1615 Nove Udoli - Praha HL.N service
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Volary is a town in South Bohemian Region, Czech Republic. It is located in the Šumava Mountains, close to the border with Germany. In 1946 the German population of the town was expelled and deported by Czech forces on the grounds of the Beneš decrees.
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Šumava National Park (Czech: Národní park Šumava, usually shortened as NP Šumava) is a National Park in the Plzeň and South Bohemian Regions of the Czech Republic along the border with Germany (where a smaller Bayerischer National Park lies) and Austria. They protect a little-inhabited area of the mountain range of the same name, the Šumava. Since 1990 it has been the protected Biospherical Reserve of UNESCO.
The Šumava Range is covered by the most extensive forest in Central Europe, whose natural composition was, however, changed and today spruce plantations prevail in most of the area. In many places non-native spruce varieties were planted. These are not well adapted to the harsh local climate and are therefore susceptible to a range of elements, such as strong winds (e.g. in the 1980s or recently at the beginning of 2007) and bark beetle (Ips typographus). Since the 1970s there has existed a stable population of lynxes.
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České dráhy (ČD) or Czech Railways is the main railway operator in the Czech Republic. In 2010 its consolidated revenues reached CZK 41.0 billion (€1.6bn, $2.1bn). Revenues from passenger transport amounted to CZK 18.7 billion (65% transfer payments from the government, 25% intra-state transport, 10% international transport), revenues from freight transport operated by subsidiary ČD Cargo amounted to CZK 11.8 billion, revenues from traffic control invoiced to state-owned railway infrastructure operator SŽDC amounted to CZK 5.2 billion. With thirty-eight thousand employees[1] ČD Group is the largest Czech company by the number of employees.
The company was established in 1993, after the dissolution of Czechoslovakia as a successor of the Czechoslovak State Railways. It is a member of the International Railway Union (UIC Country Code for Czech Republic is 54), Community of European Railways and the Organization for Railways Cooperation (Asia and Europe).
Until 1 July 2008, České dráhy was the biggest employer in the Czech Republic. After experiencing regular losses and requiring government subsidies, the railway reported its first ever "profit" in 2007 although it receives government subsidies. Attempts to make it more efficient are currently ongoing and a recent plan to move passenger transport to an independent subsidiary was approved by the Czech government in January 2008.
ČD operates trains; fixed infrastructure (such as tracks) is managed by SŽDC. In December 2010, the Czech government proposed bringing SŽDC and ČD together in a single holding company. The government has also changed the subsidies available to ČD and SŽDC.
ČD Cargo, the cargo subsidiary, mainly transports raw materials, intermediate goods and containers. As of 2009, it is ranked in the top five largest railway cargo operators in Europe.
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