Driving railway vehicles

• The professional competence of persons driving a vehicle is governed by Act No. 266/1994 Coll., the Railways Act, as amended, and Decree No. 16/2012 Coll., as amended.
• The medical fitness of persons driving a vehicle is assessed in accordance with Decree No. 101/1995 Coll., as amended.
• Vehicles on a local, tramway, trolleybus and special rail system, a cable installation or within a siding can only be driven by persons holding a valid driver's licence to drive the relevant vehicle (Section 45(1) of Act No. 266/1994 Coll., the Railways Act).
• Only persons with a valid train driver's licence and a valid train driver's certificate may drive a train on the national and regional railways (Section 46b(1) of Act No. 266/1994 Coll., the Railways Act).

• the general professional competence to obtain a train driver's licence
• the professional competence to obtain a driver's licence to drive vehicles within a siding or on a local railway
• the professional competence to obtain a driver's licence to drive vehicles on cableway installations or to operate a cableway system

• train drivers' licences
• drivers' licences to drive vehicles within a siding or on a local railway
• drivers' licences to drive vehicles on cableway installations or to operate a cableway system

• has reached the age of 20 years;
• has attained a minimum level of education (completed secondary education with an apprenticeship certificate in mechanical, electrical, civil engineering or transport engineering);
• is fit to drive a railway vehicle or a vehicle operated using other guided transport systems, i.e. has not been convicted upon a final and conclusive judgement of a driving offence or of another deliberate offence where, in view of driving and the applicant's personality, there is a risk that he or she will commit the same or a similar offence while driving such a vehicle and has not been sentenced by a court to a driving ban;
• is physically and mentally fit to drive a railway vehicle or a vehicle operated using other guided transport systems;
• has completed the prescribed training - a course of general professional competence at an accredited training centre to obtain a train driver's licence, or, as the case may be, has completed theoretical knowledge training, training in a traction vehicle repair shop and driving training to obtain a licence to drive a vehicle within a siding or on a local railway;
• has successfully passed the exam with the Rail Authority;
• has paid the administrative fee to the Rail Authority;
• after obtaining a train driver's licence, has completed a course of special professional competence at an accredited training centre to obtain a train driver's certificate;
• has successfully passed the examination on special professional competence with the transport undertaking.

Head of Unit
Ing. Lukáš Verner, tel. 602 668 934, e-mail verner@ducr.cz

Drivers' licences – sidings, local railways and cableway installations
Jana Bečvářová, tel. 602 149 925, e-mail becvarova@ducr.cz

Train drivers' licences
Radka Machalická, tel. 602 669 176, e-mail machalicka@ducr.cz

Examinations of train drivers
Mgr. Martin Prudký, tel. 702 248 643, e-mail prudky@ducr.cz

Monitoring system for train drivers' licences
PhDr. Jan Bitter, tel. 606 292 707, e-mail bitter@ducr.cz