Preparations for privatisation of Deutsche Bahn led to the discontinuation of names for the EuroCity services in Allgäu on 15 December 2002, and for the other German-operated EC trains on 12 December 2004.
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EuroCity, abbreviated as EC, and meaning "EuroCity express" or "EuroCity express train", is a cross-border train category within the European inter-city rail network.
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In 1993 the night services were rebranded as the EuroNight network, the start of a gradual decline in the number of EuroCity trains in Western Europe.
Being a railway border crossing, all trains travelling in the Prague-Bratislava railway corridor (including EuroCity and SuperCity trains) make a stopover in Kúty.
The EuroCity train EC 108 Comenius was an express train en route from Kraków, Poland to Prague, Czech Republic that struck a part of a motorway bridge that had fallen onto the railroad track near Studénka railway station in the Czech Republic.
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At the station trains of all categories are stopping: slow trains, fast trains, express train and some of the InterCity, EuroCity and EuroNight trains.
In the 2010-timetable and from 2012 onwards, the train was operating on route Bratislava - Břeclav as EC 277/278 with through coaches from Bratislava to Prague and Ostseebad Binz, and from Prague detaching from EC 177 to Vienna.