Tyger Tyger or is it Tiger Tiger? - a photo on Flickriver

            With the sun settling in the west, the fearful symmetry of ZSSK's 'RegioMover' 861 020 is framed against the Little Carpathians in the far background and, slightly nearer, by the crude rusty metal walls protecting a section of Slovakia's D4 Motorway.

The unit, one of fifty three purchased by Slovakia's state-owned passenger train company between 2011 and 2020 from domestic manufacturer ZOŠ Vrútky, has just passed under the motorway near Podunajské Biskupice working a BHS to Komárno train.

This and several other 861 units were hastily pressed into service on SK 131 to plug the gap between the prematurely cancelled ÖBB operation (Sept 2023) and commencement by new contractor Leo Express (Dec 2023). Fortunately these units were readily available having been displaced from their duties in the Prešov Region in the country's north east due to ongoing large-scale electrification work around Humenné.

The D4 Motorway, known unofficially as the Bratislava Bypass, is currently thirty two kilometres in length with plans for a further sixteen kilometres. The completed motorway runs from Jarovce, south of the capital near the Austrian border, heads west and crosses the Danube River before circling up, passing by the the Airport before finishing (currently) just to the north of Rača.

There are many different worldwide uses for the term "D4", the most interesting (to my mind anyway) is it's use as the abbreviation of the Irish postal code district 'Dublin 4'. The area in the central city zone nestled against Dublin Bay is viewed by-and-large as an affluent upper middle class area, an illustration of this being that during the economic boom of the late 1990s in the Irish Republic known as the "Celtic Tiger" Shrewsbury Road in D4 was apparently the sixth most expensive street in the world. 

Slovakia experienced it's own share of success in the world's economic jungle during the mid 2000s when the nation's impressive GDP rates were burning bright and gave rise to term the "Tatra Tiger".

The shameless pilfering/borrowing/ plagiarism/homage - call it what you will - above is of course from the William Blake poem "The Tyger", specifically the first stanza (of six).

Taken in: Slovakia / Bratislava / Rovinka (show map)

Taken on: October 22, 2023

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