Liberec Routes

Line 37 carries employees to and from the Preciosa plant in Pilínkov. Between Fügnerova and Pilínkov it is an express line, calling only at selected stops. Recently its services have been dwindling as the operations of Preciosa are scaled back.

Line no. 37 was created on 1 September 2003 and replaces the express services of line 20 intended mainly for employees of the Preciosa plant in Pilínkov. Until 2020 it ran in the same mode — in the morning three services towards Pilínkov (one starting from Františkov) and one service back. In the afternoon one direct service towards Pilínkov (with no stops), 3 services back, and in the evening one direct service towards Fügnerova. The services were heavily used, but demand began to decline slowly in the second half of the 2010s as the Preciosa plant scaled back production. A real reduction of operation, however, came only in the spring of 2020 as a result of the coronavirus crisis. Only one morning service towards Pilínkov and one afternoon service in the opposite direction remained; this scheme persists for now.

Timetable from 2003

Timetable from 2011

Timetable from 2016

Timetable from 2021

Line 37 is a fairly pleasant change of pace in a driver's shift. It has almost the same route as line 20, but stops only at selected stops. The only difference in route is the absence of the detour to the Doubská stop, so it goes directly along Hodkovická street. The footage shows one such fast run while taking the morning shift away from Pilínkov with an Iveco Urbanway CNG #535. You have to reckon with the service being more than decently occupied. For some reason, however, the timetable does not reflect Preciosa's operation, so if the company or part of it is on holiday, the service may run completely empty.

The morning service in the following video starts at the Františkov sídliště stop. The shift that operates it also begins here. The run-in to this service goes along Vilová, Nová, Mánesova and Jáchymovská streets (no other non-revenue runs are allowed through here), so I left the run out of the garages in the video too. It was driven with a Tedom C12G #520, and for the footage my thanks go to my colleague Jirka T., whom you can follow here.

This line does not have a local-geography article. Please use the local geography of the daytime lines on similar routes (13, 20, 24, 26).