Jon Searles' photos with the keyword: Cernosice

This is a view of the platform at Cernosice-Mokropsy. The station is advertised as having only one platform, which is true, but the platform serves both tracks.

Although, as a facility, Nadrazi Cernosice-Mokropsy dates to 1862, my sense is that this station is mostly not original, as the buildings appear to be from a 1933 reconstruction (https://www.atlasdrah.net/cz/stredocesky/?id=baza&poz=12805). I've been through this station many times, as it is on the Prague-Beroun mainline (Linka 171), which ultimately continues to Plzen (via Linka 170), but I have only occasionally been out of the train, on the platform. In this case, I had been dropped off to take the train home to Prague. I have so far been unable to uncover much more information on this station, as it is one of the smaller ones on the Ceske Drahy network.

This was the colour-coded recycling bin on the platform of Nadrazi Cernosice-Mokropsy. I took this picture because it included a bin for metal recycling, something that wasn't generally offered in Prague (and, as far as I know, still isn't), in spite of metal being one of the least complicated things to recycle.

This is the station building at Cernosice-Mokropsy. This building looks like it could have been built since 1933, although some buildings in 1933 already looked like this. Ceske Drahy still advertise a staffed ticket office here (as of 2024).

This was the Class 471 "City Elefant" EMU that took me back to Prague. Having said this, the photo is too blurred to get the road number.

The canopy I was waiting under gave me a few other artistic possibilities for shots, even if I was stuck with my cameraphone on this particular day. That yellow box on the station is a validator for tram tickets, if I'm not mistaken, since this line is close enough to Prague so that some of them are valid for the trains.

Here's another compositional shot. It would be nice if the cantenary mast and the support for the canopywere more level, but oh well...

Here you can look south to the crossing and some of the (retail) shops around it.

This sign, however, is still vintage. I don't know what era it dates to, but any sign that consists of stenciled paint looks quite old fashioned in the 2000's. I like it, though. I hope they don't get rid of it. This sign is telling the passengers while direction their train will be in so that they won't end up on the wrong platform. Since all trains (that I know of) in the Czech Republic are right-hand-running, and since Nadrazi Cernosice only has two tracks, a sign like this works pretty well for a station like this.

By the time we got to Cernosice, I was worn out, so I got on the train and headed home. Cernosice, while not in terrible condition, hasn't gotten the corridor reconstruction treatment yet, so the station still looks somewhat steam era (if it weren't for the cantenary), and the tracks are a bit overgrown, even if those blackened ties are in fact concrete.

While Nadrazi Cernosice definitely has the retro look and feel, the station signs have mostly been upgraded.

I think the lighting in this shot, looking north, is better.

Most of the services when I first visited Cernosice five years ago were Class 451 and 452 "Pantograph" EMU's, but most of the services have now been upgraded to Class 471 "City Elephant" EMU's, which are are technically called "City Elefant" EMU's to make the name more phonetic to Czech speakers.