Now free for all to read... From Brisbane's Roma Street Station, I travelled 1,325km into western Queensland aboard a classic sleeper train - the Spirit of the Outback:
I'm off on a train to Zürich, two days there and then back to Australia.
St Gallen was a delight - I'd never even heard of the place before, but it's a very pleasant small city with a lot of history and some wonderful old architecture.
Travelling Stockholm - Hamburg - Cologne - Brussels for a two-day conference about public metal detecting. It'll take 24 hours, one third of which I'll spend asleep. It's the 2024 way to #travel.
Shit. Thought I saw a positive story about refurbishing and reopening a major train station...and it turns out it's just a puff piece about a rich Ford family guy buying it and turning into a "tech hub" for Ford's campus. #Trains#FuckCars#Transportation
@notjustbikes's "Haubtbahnhoftest" evaluates how easily you can walk to the city from a train station and how well is it connected to public transit. Has anyone done this ranking for a larger number of stations around the world? I'd like to find some sort of methodology I could use to judge my train station as well. I am sure it would score terribly.
“I’m making a whole city! There are roads and tracks and roads crossing over the tracks! And buildings!” There are also many bus stops and a museum. (Grateful for washable markers) #urbanism#transit#PublicTransport#trains#bike#BikeTooter
New at my Patreon... In Switzerland, I take the GoldenPass Express from Interlaken to Montreux - seeing beautiful mountain scenery and changing gauge on the way:
@timrichards this is a great line! Me and a mate trained from bern to saanan, hiked to a few huts up in the mountains and then got the train from chateau d'oex to the serine valley then down to Geneva.
A very interesting railway and awesome part of the world.
Good morning from Switzerland. A bit damp and moody in interlaken today, though picturesque.
Later today I'll be boarding the GoldenPass Express to Montreux, then joining an international media tour that's exploring the country's lesser-known scenic rail routes.
I'll be writing about the highlights for my patrons at my Patreon, so feel free to join the gang and enjoy: https://www.patreon.com/timrichards
@vicgrinberg@verbeeld take regional trains Paris - Amiens - Lille - Kortrijk - Antwerpen. All take bikes with no ban on eBikes. The Olympic train Paris - Mons - Bruxelles might take bikes too.
@verbeeld You can take bikes both on French TER trains and NMBS trains. As far as I can tell, neither has a ban on electric bikes. Paris to Antwerp this way is about five hours
with one change in Lille. SNCF says that bikes on TERs are free, for Belgium you need a supplement which seems to be four euros.