Andrew Muirhead wins Czech train contract
22/01/2013
Leo Express will operate an initial eight return services per day between Prague and Ostrava, with five trains carrying 237 passengers in three classes – premium, business and economy. Now in service for just over one month, Leo Express has been universally congratulated on the quality and comfort of its carriages.
Carrying passengers between the two launch cities at 160kilometres per hour, the journey time from Prague to Ostrava is just over three hours, with the additional cities of Ceské, Budejovice, Vienna and Plzen set to become part of the service in the future.
Operator owner Leos Novotny says: “Our aim is to reinvent railways in central Europe and we look forward to expanding with more trains in neighbouring countries in the future.”
Andrew Muirhead sales director, Archie Browning, said: “Leo Express is already proving very popular, with the comfort and quality of its carriages and seats a particular highlight for many passengers. We believe our luxurious high-performance leather plays a big part in the ambience of the business and premium class compartments.”
He added that the trains are designed to be green, and that Muirhead leather contributes to this. In keeping with all Scottish Leather Group products, Andrew Muirhead calls its leather “low carbon” because the group has been running its own thermal energy plant at its Bridge of Weir tannery since 2010, taking what was previously waste sent straight to landfill and converting it into energy for heating the huge volumes of recycled water required in the manufacturing process.
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