This is seriously the last time I'm taking an #InterCity bus. As usual, I'm desperate for a piss, because for an 8 hour bus ride they only schedule 2 stops where passengers can go to the toilet.
We stop at Turangi, right outside the i-Site, and I ask the driver if I can quickly use the toilet. He grumps at me in his "papers please, comrade" accent, "No! Go back to the bus". No basic courtesy. No information about when we'll next be able to use the toilet.
#InterCity is everything we were told competition would protect us from when it was privatized. It's long past time that - as with the trains - the privatisation experiment with long distance buses was declared a failure, and InterCity re-nationalized.
Pomysł: wprowadźmy zakaz prowadzenia ruchu pociągów #PKP#InterCity po szlakach jednotorowych. Zgaduję, że wówczas dla PKP PLK (spółki powstałej w ramach pionowego podziału kolei, w którym najwyraźniej nie przeszkadza, że cały pion należy do jednej grupy kapitałowej, i jest skorumpowany do cna), nagle okaże się opłacalnym budowa drugiego toru na trasach takich jak Poznań - Kołobrzeg.
A nawet jeśli nie, to będzie mniej źródeł lawinowych opóźnień.
Good morning from the #SBB🇨🇭#InterCity to #Brig. The train comes with a #Bistro-style @diningcar, located at the ground floor of the bi-level carriage - a good place to enjoy #breakfast ☕️🥐 prepared by the lovely steward at the #buffet counter of the car.
@voorstad ik had inderdaad liever een #intercity gehad, maar #Dordrecht is recent gedegradeerd tot ‘halve tijd van de tijd de sprinter’-klasse. Hele domme zet van de NS.
Gestern fuhr zum letzten mal ein #Intercity als Sonderfahrt mit Drehfalttüren, Übersetzfenstern und dem letzten #Bordbistro, zum Teil aus alten #Interregio Beständen. Es geht nun ab ins DB Museum.... #Bahn#Feditrains
Am 12.06.1988 ist der "#Intercity#Experimental", der spätere ICE-V, mit einer Publikumsfahrt zwischen #Hamburg und #Bremen unterwegs und passiert gerade den Bahnhof #Hittfeld. Anlass ist die Internationale Verkehrsausstellung in Hamburg.
Damit das Licht auf den ganzen Zug fällt, verzichtete ich auf das komplett sichtbare Stellwerk.
Hi everyone! 🚍 @BCWideBus is brand new on Mastodon so here's our #introduction ! We're a small ad-hoc group of citizens in BC advocating for a Public Intercity Transportation Network!
We hope to start posting lots of stories from people all over BC and other content to help make this happen. If you have a story about the need for inter-community public transport, please say Hi and reply! 🙂
Last week at #Villach 🇦🇹 Hbf: #InterCity train #211 to #Vinkovci 🇭🇷 via #Ljubljana 🇸🇮 and #Zagreb 🇭🇷. Some carriages have got opening windows and come with cosy compartments and comfy seats. A few years back, this train, named “Sava”, included through cars from #Munich 🇩🇪 to #Belgrade 🇷🇸.
Kupowanie promocyjnego biletu z Wrocławia do Budapesztu to ruletka. Nierosyjska. Na stronie Intercity rezerwacji nie zrobisz; odsyłają do aplikacji, która szwankuje na całej linii. Lądujesz więc w dworcowym biurze obsługi pasażerów przed panią, która przeczesuje internetowe zosoby. "Jest" oznajmia z satysfakcją: "Mamy pociąg powrotny". "A ten z Wrocławia?" - reaguje zaskoczony. "Spróbujemy i z Wrocławia", oznajmia z uśmiechem moja przewodniczkach po czeluściach pkp. #intercity
La #Chaux-de-Fonds🇨🇭to #Bern on a #BLS regional express service in June 2018: the push-pull trainset is in full “#Kambly livery” - a popular cookie brand in Switzerland. The cars are of the “EW III” type, originally built for the cross-country #SwissExpress in the 1970s - the best domestic #Intercity trains back then: they came with air condition even for passengers is 2nd class. #PastTrainTrips
Regular #PolRegio trains take roughly 5 hours and 30 minutes, and cost 46,40 PLN.
The fastest #PKP#InterCity trains take roughly 5 hours (slower: 5 h 40 min) and cost 49,70 PLN (2nd class).
However, on weekends there's an extra PolRegio "ORKAN" train that takes 4 hours and 20 minutes (!), and costs 46,20 PLN. The trick is to skip #Szczecin Główny.
From 11 June the loco-hauled service will be replaced by newer ICE4 sets. Timings of ICE 118-119 stay the same (no stops in Aulendorf and Göppingen anymore).
New direct #Intercity services are announced between #Aachen 🇩🇪 and #Eindhoven 🇳🇱 starting from the end of 2024, running in the morning, evening and on weekends. An hourly service is projected from 2031.
New Siemens Venture cars on the #Amtrak Wolverine from #Detroit to #Chicago offer a quieter, smoother ride. Love the 2x1 configuration, which gives solo travelers a business-class like experience of having a seat to oneself and your own chargers, with USB charging built-in. Digital signage informs of upcoming station stops. Very nice! #trains#travel#intercity
…which raises the question whether seat reservations are really mandatory here in French #InterCity (IC) trains (its written in train, but the #railplanner app is contradictory🫠🫠 and apparently there were passengers in there without one). #interrail#interrailing#interrail2023
The ¹ there just says “Reservations are mandatory for trains in Normandy.”, which does not apply.