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A mix of German politics, European politics and railways #CrossBorderRail. In English and German.

Eine Mischung aus deutscher Politik, europäischer Politik und Eisenbahnen. Auf englisch und auf deutsch.

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jon, to random
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Welcome to the Day 11 thread

I’m in Czechia currently and I’m heading back into Germany today

https://urbanists.video/w/9j2cJauwN2qzPP97EC6uuq

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@trantion it’s had a few rebuilds!

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@filiplachert I think it’s somehow to do with the Plzeňský Kraj ticket system. But it’s still a bit weird.

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@filiplachert you might save anyway with a split. But the Horažďovice predm. - Plzen - Domažlice ticket is extra cheap because it’s all the same Kraj.

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Hmm.

Horažďovice predm. - Plsen - Furth im Wald is 377 CZK (€15,97)

If I stop in Domažlice as well, and split tickets there… it’s 145 CZK (€6,14). So that’s what I’ll do

CD screenshot - to Domazlice
Domazlice - Furth

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Oh and the cross border section Domažlice - Furth im Wald

63 CZK (€2,67) from ČD

Or €6,95 from DB

🤷‍♂️

jon,
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@thatmanmatt I think the engineering of these was always better than Pacers. But unlike the UK, here they found a way to make them disabled accessible too

jon,
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These Czech railbuses… also known as RegioMouse

Built in 1977 but rebuild to have step free access. And here in Plzeňský Kraj in impeccable condition

Horažďovice predm.

Builder plate RegioMouse

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Railways in 🇨🇿 are far from perfect

But what’s so good is what ought to be easy for railways they do well - timetables, information in stations, online ticketing, live running data. Staff are also very good in my experience.

So many other railways fail on those points.

It’s the hard stuff - infrastructure investment - that’s lacking. But that’s long term, slow, costly.

Basically Czechia and ČD make the very best of what they have.

sixtus, to random German
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Ich fühle mich ja recht wohl auf Mastodon, aber es fühlt sich hier für mich auch in etwa so an wie in der Küche einer WG, in der ich nicht wohne. Alle leise und vorsichtig ausgesprochenen Verbesserungsvorschläge (threaded Replys, quoted Toots) wurden bisher mit "das haben wir hier besprochen und beschlossen, dass wir das nicht wollen" oder "das haben wir besprochen, und das wäre uns zu sehr wie Twitter" beantwortet. Mein Problem: Ich liebe Twitter, nur eben nicht den Hass-Mob dort. 🤷🏼‍♀️ Falsche WG?

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@sixtus ich stimme dir vollkommen zu. Ich denke dass es noch ein Konsequenz des „wir wollen dass unsere Netzwerke klein bleiben“ der frühen Mastodon Ära ist. Aber können wir die Reichweite hier ändern, ohne die Mob-mäßigen Problemen von Twitter?

jon, to random
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Welcome to Day 10. Off to Austria and Czechia today!

https://urbanists.video/w/bssxjGvWUcXKopeDCQN5R9

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@canleaf I’m likely on a RegioPanther shortly!

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@nordkommission @partim I got it to work on Arriva, quoting some paragraph of the terms of travel that Adam Vanting sent me. That might work here too… Also GW Train here is one person operation - no ticket checks. You could play dumb and risk it.

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Here’s today’s video summary

https://urbanists.video/w/2LhaAFGFuZPZZd5pQDNzj5

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So tomorrow I will re-route - from Horažďovice to Plsen, then direct to Schwandorf. But it means avoiding a rail replacement bus, and getting more sleep...

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Train 41

R 660
20:25 Číčenice - Horažďovice predm. 21:07
ČD

Distance: 48 km
Average speed: 68 km/h

Train type: Škoda locomotive and 6 carriages
⚡️
🚲: ✅
🦽: ❓ (dedicated carriage, but useable at all stations? I don’t know)
🛜: ⛔️ (not in my carriage)
🧳: 🤔 (high narrow steps - hard with luggage)
🧽: 🤔 (bit grimy)

: ⛔️

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Damn. There’s a rail replacement bus between Horažďovice and Klatovy tomorrow 😡

I’m going to have to route via Plzen after all

Frustrating…

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@nordkommission @partim I’ll check when I’m not on a train!

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@chrismacnab @KarlE I think you have to allow all sorts. Those who want fast, and those who want to see things. People going from city to city by bike is fine by me!

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Never have I been happier to see an old Škoda locomotive 🙂

ČD held the connecting train in Číčenice, so I’ll make it to Horažďovice predm. tonight

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@senta_wolfsberg I’ve replied to this point about 5 times already. This is supposed to be a long distance cycle path. Not something for a challenging outing in the countryside. If you want mud, label it as such

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And if your response to this is “I like mud / gravel”, sure, that’s fine. But this is meant to be a long distance cycle path - style of the Vennbahn, and listed as such. And it’s not good enough for that. I have a folding bike, so I’ll prioritise decent surfaces which is my prerogative. If you want mud, fine. But list mud as mud.

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@chrismacnab @KarlE I think basically I was annoyed yesterday because this wasn’t the quality promised - these long distance cycle paths in Germany (like Vennbahn at Aachen) are designed to get cyclists quite easily across long distances. This was labelled as such, but wasn’t useable that way. I managed barely 13km/h average, whereas I’d normally manage 20km/h at least.

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@chrismacnab @KarlE You have basically no other way of crossing this region on a bike tour other than this route. The roads have no cycle lanes. If you don’t want this asphalted then at least it has to be maintained.

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@jon - hey, do you remember seeing any decent cross border bus or taxi options during or while planning Turmantas to Daugavpils for

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@richardavsmith @partim although Stettin is a really nice city

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@richardavsmith @partim Don’t. Rail replacement on a part German side. And in Kostryzn the bridge is broken. Guben is your best bet if you want something different.

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@partim @richardavsmith isn’t there still a rail replacement currently even for the ECs? Or Richard - go via Guben?

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