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UK based rail electrification engineer with AtkinsRéalis | Electrification Junkie, Catenary Shagger | #electrifyAllTheThings | All opinions my own; retoots not endorsement | rail photos | cat memes | laughing at Space Karen.
Want to know how overhead line electrification works? Read all my #RailwaysExplained threads, get my FREE book at http://ocs4rail.com/downloads or buy at https://www.thepwi.org/product/overhead-line-electrification-for-railways/. Owner of the Railways Archive.
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I’m speaking shortly about in Sarajevo. Trying to apply some lessons from my project to South East Europe

No Stream, but PDF of slides here:

https://nextcloud.techpolitics.eu/index.php/s/p8Er87ySxKqAAbX?dir=undefined&openfile=115551

25kV,
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@jon I've always wondered this: what is the difference between "digitisation" and "digitalisation"? The latter word seems to be less than 10 years old

tml, to random
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Good morning! There is no plug or valve in the bathroom sink, but luckily the toothbrush mug fits almost perfectly.

View from balcony.

No rain expected today, and not too warm either. Ideal.

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@tml @diningcar whats the simplest way to know in advance which Czech services have a dining car?

25kV,
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@partim @tml @diningcar thanks - didn't know they had an app. Seems to work pretty well too

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@Schleifleistenbruch @tml @diningcar thanks!

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I wish I wasn't this sexy, but here we are

25kV,
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@Shrigglepuss its a burden and no mistake

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@tml I have a week coming up in Czechia next month. What routes would you recommend for a Czech n00b?

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@tml thanks!

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@djasa @tml anything quirky, mad old trains, that kind of thing

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@djasa @tml and scenery, plus somewhere interesting to get off on the way

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@pony @djasa @tml thanks all! copious notes taken

tml, to random
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Again night trains are descibed in an article in the press (Stern) as “Einsteigen, einschlafen, aufwachen, aussteigen”. (“Board, sleep, wake up, disembark”) That is not how night trains work except in lucky cases where the journey is precisely so long that you board at bedtime and arrive around 7–9 or so in the morning. For longer journeys you either are awake for several hours before a reasonable bedtime, or you arrive around noon or even later. And that is how it has always been.

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@tml the worst kind of night trains are the ones that leave at 11pm and arrive at 7am. Give me a 7pm / 10am schedule any day

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@tml eww, is 0544 even a time? (not a morning person)

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Today was the first time I seriously planned traveling by night train, and it became clear that they can't seriously compete against high speed rail or planes.

Prague is about as far away from Brussels as Marseille. The Eurostar to Marseille (when it runs) is 5h, the night train to Prague is... 15h, with a more unreliable schedule. Even giving an 8h sleeping discount to the night train, it's quite a bit longer.

25kV,
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@DiegoBeghin as someone who has used night trains several times over the last 3 years, I can assure you it isn't just rail enthusiasts using them. Many are ppl who have turned their backs on flying because it is awful for the climate. Of course it takes longer than high speed! The whole point of a night train is to leave and arrive at a civilised hour, so they often go slow or have extended stops en route. The idea is to use otherwise wasted time (you in bed) to get you where you need to be.

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@DiegoBeghin as for price, you are right - but that is because there aren't enough sleeper carriages so to a large extent the operators can charge a premium. If we ran more/longer trains the price would come down.

I also won't argue with you about the seated option - it's a "hell no" from me!

It's worth following @jon and @seatsixtyone to get the expert view on this topic

25kV,
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@DiegoBeghin @jon @seatsixtyone almost every railway in the world, including those lovely high speed lines, is subsided to some extent by the taxpayer. Each country has to decide what the cost split is between taxpayer and farepayer. Countries with lower subsidies have higher ticket prices - so ticket price is to a certain extent a political decision, not one of simple balance sheets.

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@DiegoBeghin @jon @seatsixtyone e.g. in the UK successive governments over the last 30 years moved the needle away from the taxpayer, resulting in relatively high ticket prices.

25kV, to photography
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in the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed dog is king

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cops

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cake

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MS office is essentially unusable now without a solid internet connection. Can't even save to the C drive or cancel a meeting without a server check-in first. Absolute trash.

(Don't tell me to use a different product. I'm at work, I don't have a choice)

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I'm unaccountably reminded of the Monty Python song lyric "and brave Sir Robin ran away". Can't think why

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Wherever I'm in Derbados - sorry, Derby - there's always something odd going on at the station. On this case, a pair of class 73/9s top and tailing the ultrasonic rail test train. Sadly "Dick Mabbutt" was not in the consist

A class 73 locomotive at the head of a rake of carriages in the platform

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@wnd oh god, I feel this. We used to be based in RTC, moved to an office next to the Roundhouse after COVID. I miss the sight of weird locos but I do NOT miss that walk in winter

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Amazingly, this is my first time on an open access operator since the demise of the Wrexham and Shropshire Railway.

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