Actually 680 pendolino timetable 2011 (Allgemeines Forum)

jan_brno, Donnerstag, 03.12.2009, 09:02 (vor 6066 Tagen) @ Daniel

Good Morning,
It's a little bit confusing to mentioned here link to the czech web page that hasn't english/deutsch mutation.

About our train sets 680: at present the best train that could Czech Railways (CD) offer to customers, but for many people are this trains still very expensive (compulsory reservation because of Super City category). Yes, 680 can reach up to 230 km/h, but our corridors were rebuild only to 160 km/h... Yes, 680 is tilting train, so in some curves it can go up to +30% faster than conventional train, but in timetable 2009/2010 680 will need the same time for journey from Brno to Prague as others trains (EC) - in 2008/2009 were SC trains faster (-16 min). And so on...
680 abroad: Austria - for OBB is not acceptable to operate these train under SC category and also because of not enough space for luggage.
Germany - for DB is not acceptable the capacity of the train sets. DB said in past that if CD increases the number of seats (coupled sets) then could be CD 680 acceptable - oops, 680 has never been tested in coupled mode. so...

Now, 680 operate only in CZ and the management of CD does not know, what to do, which marketing way they should choose, they are only trying without any concept for future.

Therefore the article on CT24 (portal of Czech TV) is a one of many...

Jan