But why not serve Dresden, Bautzen & Görlitz directly, as they're much more significant than Ruhland & Hoyerswerda that will be served? Because of THIS This is the border bridge between Görlitz 🇩🇪 to the left, and Zgorzelec 🇵🇱 to the right - you can see the electrification masts end in the middle
Germany and Poland agreed in 2003 (yes, more than TWENTY years ago) to electrify the whole Dresden - Wrocław corridor, but Germany has STILL NOT STARTED ITS WORKS BETWEEN GÖRLITZ AND THE EDGE OF DRESDEN So you'd need a diesel locomotive for that section
The border line further north Horka Gbf 🇩🇪 - Wegliniec 🇵🇱 is electrified (done for freight trains initially) - here the masts don't end in the middle of the bridge, and so an electric locomotive (like a PKP IC Vectron, as shown) can operate the whole route Leipzig - Przemyśl if you avoid Dresden
And something better than these 20 year old DMUs between Dresden and Görlitz would be very welcome as well! So yeah, Dresden to Kraków via Ruhland is better than how you'd do it currently, but get on and ⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️ between Dresden and Görlitz, please! /ends
P.S. There was a small error on my initial map, pointed out to me on Mastodon. As Bluesky still does not have an edit button I add the amended map here. It doesn't change the essentials of the thread through!
Sort of similar story to Bavaria-Czechia connection albeit there's no wired line approaching that border from the German side 😜
Sure. Multiple wrongs don’t make a right!
⚡ of Nuremberg - Cheb dates back to BVP1992... ⚡ of Dresden - Wroclaw had been agreed a little earlier, in the mid-80s. Back then, DR and PKP were struggling with the impact of the 2nd oil shock. P