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Železničná Spoločnosť Slovensko
Železničná spoločnosť Slovensko, a.s. (ZSSK) (') is a Slovak state-owned passenger train company based in Bratislava. In 2002 a company Železničná spoločnosť was established as a successor of personal and cargo transport part of the Železnice Slovenskej republiky Railways of the Slovak Republic (, acronym: ''ŽSR'') is the state-owned railway infrastructure company of Slovakia. The company was established in 1993 as the successor to the Czechoslovak State Railways () in Slovakia following the dissolut .... In 2005 this new company was further split into "Železničná spoločnosť Slovensko, a. s." providing Passenger transport services and " Železničná spoločnosť Cargo Slovakia, a. s." (ZSSK CARGO or ZSCS) providing cargo services. The fleet of the Železničná spoločnosť Slovensko was partially modernised with the introduction of 8 3-car units and 2 4-car dual-voltage units of the new Škoda 7Ev EMUs. The contract included the option for additional ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ČD Class 471
The Class 471 electric motor unit, commonly known as ''CityElefant'', is a Bilevel rail car, double deck electric multiple unit operating on 3 kV DC overhead wires produced by Škoda Vagonka, a subsidiary of Škoda Transportation, since 1997 and operated by the České dráhy rail transit operator on its Commuter rail, suburban services around Prague and Ostrava, Czech Republic. A single unit consists of a Class 471 power car with First class travel, first class seating, a single Class 071 Passenger car (rail), passenger car and a Class 971 Control car, cab car. They are replacement for defunct ČD Class 451, and successor to scrapped ČD Class 470. Czech railways ordered in total 83 units. The last unit for the Czech Railways was delivered in March 2013. In addition, variants differing in power system and other parameters, have been ordered by Lithuanian Railways, Železničná spoločnosť Slovensko and Ukrainian Railways. Derived units Czech Railways In 2019, ČD concluded a c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |