To better connect Slovakia and Zakarpattia, test passenger trains are to start in April on the standard gauge track between Košice, Slovakia’s second largest city, and Mukachevo, Zakapattia’s rail hub. With Slovakia’s ZSSK trains plying the 175 km route in four hours, service is start in June, in time for the summer tourism season. The new route “will make this region more attractive for tourists,” Arpád Érsek, Slovakia’s Transport and Regional Development Minister, said after meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Omelyan.
To better connect Slovakia and Zakarpattia, test passenger trains are to start in April on the standard gauge track between Košice, Slovakia’s second largest city, and Mukachevo, Zakapattia’s rail hub
