Operation fully resumes on Pardubice train route following fatal accident

Forty hours after Wednesday night's fatal train collision in Pardubice, the train route through the city that connects Prague with Moravia resumed full operation on Friday evening. The remaining piece of debris still on the track waiting to be cleared up - the most badly damaged of the passenger carriages - was put to the side of the tracks on Friday and will be completely removed on Monday, a spokesperson for the Railway Administration's fire brigade said.

Only one railway track had been operating on the train route at a limited speed since Thursday morning following the accident, when an express passenger train crashed into a freight train at the newly built Pardubice-Centre station shortly before 11 pm, leaving four people dead and 27 injured. The remaining tracks reopened around an hour and a half earlier than the originally estimated time of 6 pm on Friday.