Sounds fascinating though, a different time for sure now!

platforms were actually built in 2006

I think the last time I saw mechanical rolls - the clacking ones, with mechanically moving plates - at a Slovak local station or county city station, was over twenty years ago, in the early 2000s. They were already being replaced with electronic timetable and departure signs, and became surprisingly rare to already replaced wholesale by the mid-to-late 2000s. I never saw a single timetable roll in operation since the late 2000s. The various reforms and investments since the early 2000s, particularly ones with financial and other assisstance from the EU, have helped immensely in updating the railway infrastructure. It was still going a fair bit slower than we'd want to back in the 2000s and 2010s, but there has at least been progress in the past 20 years, even if some of our governments in that time were not as pro-reform, anti-corruption or in favour of reasonable investment as we would have hoped. These DMUs for the eastern lines, nice as they are, were first talked about in 2002 or 2003, but only delivered for regular operations in 2012, almost a decade later. Though they updated the order specifications accordingly, it was still far too long a wait for new MU rolling stock, for a country already some eight years in the EU and using the euro. Imagine many eastern rail lines still forced to use primarily the rickety Class 810 railbuses we were saddled with since commie times, all the way up to 2012. Annoying. I was glad for the new DMUs, but it's just one of many steps in the overall necessary improvement of our railways. I think the younger and more forward-thinking government since 2020 did a good bit of work to speed up the reforms and modernization of the railways again. They even finally got the ball rolling on electrifying an important passenger railway in the east, something constantly promised but not delivered for, I kid you not, the past century. Once that line gets electrified, it would unburden the necessity for the DMUs showcased in this very video. We could finally assign some new EMUs on that particular railway, or even slightly older electric locomotives with the new passenger cars we already have. As much as I like our new DMUs introduced in the 2010s, I'd be partial to ongoing electrification of the lines that still aren't covered and introducing contemporary-standard EMUs in those parts of the country where they were still missing.

They're in certain ways better than battery electric buses. Especially in an urban environment, where a trolleybus is actually more cost effective than a battery bus. A battery electric bus makes more sense for long-distance routes, in rural areas, etc., whereas trolleybuses are much more practical (even cost-wise) in towns and cities. Particularly towns and cities that might be too small for trams/streetcars, or not have enough space or infrastructure for those. The trolleybus is a very good compromise between the cost effectiveness of an electric tram/streetcar and the lower infrastructure costs and greater route flexibility of a bus.

Thanks a lot! :)

Thank you very much! :)

Thanks for noticing! 😃

Thank you so much, there's SO much more to come. :)

Thanks! :)

I agree. You'll have to give him a tip-off to visit it! 😉

Stratford is busy

Plenty of room! I wonder if these stations get busy in the peak...

Yeah, they are all over aren't they!

„freight only line to Plaveč“: Back in 1994 that was the international line Krakow (Poland) - Prešov & Košice (Slovakia) - Miskolc (and perhaps even Budapest) (Hungary). Crossing the polish-slovak border, it consisted of one (1) waggon.

I'd definitely like to try that one day. I know there's also a weekly train to Čirč.

I’m pretty sure the services are back but at a very low frequency because one time I was scrolling through the time tables and saw a Regional Fast train to some Polish town across the border

Nice, must be a familiar train for you.

I have seen those, they look very interesting! 😅

@@SuperalbsTravelsDefinitely they have a retro interesting looking 😂; but trust me, they aren't so interesting to ride in summer, when they stayed stop on the track for 30 minutes before the departure, under the sun, considering that they don't have air conditioning 😖. Seems that finally they have decided to electrified the line and the trains, but knowing Italy's time regarding public infrastructure, we will have to wait until 2030 to see some improvement

Yes, once the governments stop fussing over scariants I will try! :)

I managed alright, I am relatively good at picking up languages, and it is similar to other slavic languages, used most in places I love spending time in!

@@SuperalbsTravels Thats good well you should try learning Hungarian very hard to understand I know a lot of words but the problem is some of them can be very hard to pronounce.

I've heard that Hungarian and Finnish are very challenging!

@@SuperalbsTravels Next time you go to Hungary you must do a recording of the announcements like in Budapest for example I like the station chime in Budapest Keleti perhaps it is played at every station on the MAV network.

@@jeromebano1125 The chimes on MÁV are great! I love how catchy some of them are. :)

It does seem to be a combination of eras! :)

@@SuperalbsTravels Think it was built during the communist era, and updated afterwards. Have lived in Kosice, city next to Presov, andhave used Presov train station in the past.

Lovely thanks! 😘

@@SuperalbsTravels I Like The Class 800. It's Just The Seats That We Don't Like.

@@emilianohaskurti9344 Oh!

@@SuperalbsTravels Why "Oh!"

@@emilianohaskurti9344 Just a strange comment on a ZSSK video, lol. :)

That's why they're nicknamed „rumblehead” 😂

@@jmsmilfajt You don't have too many expectations from a regio train ..... that's why the ticket is cheap

If you sit in middle carriage it isn't that bad.

@@jacky445 It's further from the engines

@@randomuser262 If you are from the area, I can't contradict you ..... it means that you really know what combinations the company makes