The ČD Brejlovec 750 718-9 seen between Lipová Lázne zastávka and Lipová Lázne

Our treat on this trip was definitely the Šumperk - Krnov line through mountainous and heavily industrialized Silesia. The line has a short section through poland around Glucholazy where the train has to change directions (getting off was forbidden until 2006). This train in the picture has just departed from Jeseník a few kilometres away and heads to Zábreh na Morave on the Ostrava - Olomouc - Praha main line, from where an electric locomotive will take the train to Brno. The regional center Šumperk is evaded as the line connects to the Šumperk line a little South from the city with a triangle, but these fast trains connect to slow railcars at Hanušovice that go to Šumperk instead through the other edge of the triangle. Šumperk is home to Pars Nova, where the RegioNova refurbished railcars were made and the TDK semiconductor factory, while Hanušovice has a bearings factory and also houses the Pivovar Holba brewery.

Holba beer