AC Electrics
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updated : 2020-12-20
Several of Slovakia's major routes are electrified at 25kV AC, including the line from Brno, through Bratislava towards Budapest. ZSSK and ZSSK Cargo employ a number of different classes of AC electric, many of them dating from the 1960s or 1970s but including some modern locos as well.
Diesel Motor Coaches
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updated : 2020-12-20
Instead of DMUs, CSD traditionally built diesel motor coaches to work fast and semi-fast services on unelectrified main and secondary lines. They were designed to haul a number of trailers but had to run round their trains like a loco at termini. All ZSSK's motor coaches had been withdrawn by 2007.
Freight
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updated : 2020-12-20
Freight traffic dropped dramatically after the fall of the iron curtain and the deregulation of road transport in the early 1990s. There are still significant levels of freight on several corridors but, away from the electrified main lines, it can be sparse and diesel worked freights are relatively hard to find.