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dominicstucki

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Traffic planner, public transport specialist, rail nerd. Concepts and network design at #SBB. Zürich, Switzerland.
Find all my rail travel threads archived under 'Pinned'.

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Morning.
04:30. The alarm clock rings and the DB app greets me with a friendly push: «Trip not possible».
Ha! Challenge accepted!

Screenshot of my Zürich—Hamburg connection in the DB app. - Trip not possible - Stop cancelled - Delay - Train running without coach 8
Clock at the tram stop shows 05:30

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Up for a short a rail travel thread? Here we go! Join me for a bit of #NorthernNostalgia. 🚞

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Attention, c'est parti! 🇨🇵
#FranceFérié

Dining car of an ICN trainset in Zürich's underground station
Departure board, announcing the IC5 09:04 to Genève-Aéroport.

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Hi! Es ist wieder einmal an der Zeit, über Fahrpläne zu reden. 🗓️
Für einmal aber nicht über das verkehrliche Angebot, sondern über ihre grafische Darstellung. 🎨

Thread. 🧵⬇️

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@partim
Sowas wäre sicher denkbar.
Vielleicht sollten diese Kurse aber auch gar nicht mit der Liniennummer sondern als «E» (wird in Zürich für alle Sonderfahrten und -fahrwege genutzt) gekennzeichnet werden. Wie oft bin ich schon in ein Tram eingestiegen und nach der Abzweigung zum Depot dann wieder raus, weil ich nur auf die Nummer geachtet und nicht bemerkt habe, dass es ein Einrücker ist.

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I travelled from 🇵🇹 #Portugal to 🇫🇮 #Finland by train.

Join me for the second part, where I cross Spain with slow trains only, chase nez cassé locomotives in southern France and ride some sleepy branch lines in northern Italy.
#TrainAcrossEurope

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📢 «Den Fahrgästen mit Ziel in der Nähe eines Stadtbahnhofes empfehlen wir, die S-Bahn zu benützen.»

Mal wieder ein Tag fürs Team . Wie eigentlich jeden Samstag.

Info-Push der Verkehrsbetriebe Zürich: Einschränkungen in der Zürcher Innenstadt 28. Oktober 2023, 13:30 Uhr - ca. 15:30 Uhr Demonstrationsumzug in der Innenstadt Auf den Tramlinien 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 14 und 17 kommt es zu Umleitungen und Unregelmässigkeiten. Es ist mit mehr Reisezeit zu rechnen. Dauer von 13.30 Uhr bis ca. 15.30 Uhr. Wir bitten um Verständnis.
Ein Cobra-Tram der Linie 13.

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Question to :

Going from Madrid to Lisbon clearly seems to require the two changes at Badajoz and Entroncamento, ok. But I cannot figure out whether there is any help with those connections in case of delay - and also whether that connection exists every day throughout the year.

(For a work commitment, I really need to find out whether it is even possible to count on train travel to Lisbon these days or not)

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@wolfgangcramer
Are you trying to book in July? To me, it looks like booking for train categories other than AVE and avlo are not open yet for dates beyond beginning of May. At least, this is what I can see on other lines with a quick research. Renfe annoyingly sometimes opens bookings only as little as two months ahead, so the only thing which helps would be check again later. Maybe our expert @jon or Spain expert @claudsch know more?

@vermeer

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@vermeer @wolfgangcramer
It's a bit of a hassle, it seems that the connections ib Badajoz got worse. I guess there is no way around checking CP (Badajoz - Entroncamento) and Renfe (Madrid - Badajoz) timetables separately for the day you want to travel. There is, as far as I know, unfortunately also no through ticketing.

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@wolfgangcramer
I wouldn't worry too much, but it's of course personal preference of how much certainty you like. I guess, the chance of a cancelled train in Spain is not higher than in France, Germany or elsewhere - only that there are not so many alternatives. And there's still the possibility to take a bus or travel via Vigo-Porto if there are construction works or other problems on the Badajoz line.

@wrzlbrnft @jon @claudsch @vermeer

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To travel from Germany 🇩🇪 to Switzerland 🇨🇭 you could for the hundredth time take a cramped, unloved and most certainly delayed ICE 4 along the Rheintalbahn. Or...

dominicstucki, to random German
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Hunderttausend Höllenhunde! Wer plant so einen Schwachsinn?! 📐💣
Auf der stand: Instektengitter bestellen. Eigentlich easy. Nur hats da vor dem Fenster einen «Rausfall-Schutz» in Form einer Metallstange (im Erdgeschoss, versteht sich!), der so nahe an der Scheibe verläuft, dass die noch einigermassen bezahlbaren Insektengitter-Standardprodukte nicht dazwischen passen. Grmbl.

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@partim
😁 Neuer ToDo-Eintrag: Schon mal die Ausrede für die spätere Diskussion mit der Hausverwaltung erfinden.

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@zugkatze
Was denn? 🇨🇭
Wie heisst das Ding bei euch?

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@partim
Hab ein Produkt gefunden, das passt. Braucht allerdings auch eine Metallsäge, um den Rahmen auf die Fenstergrösse zuzuschneiden.
Hmm, da ich nun eh ein Metall-Sägeblatt brauche, welches ist da nun die bessere Strategie? 🤔😁

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🇨🇵 : Le TGV is sold out. You 'ave to travel demain.
🇧🇻 : Hold my Øl!

The next possibility to travel from Oslo to Norway's 2nd biggest city Bergen by day train is in nearly three days! 🤯
Seats and sleeper compartments for the night trains are available, though.

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On Wednesday, I took the – line. I got the impression, that this could be a great route for passengers from Belgium to Switzerland, the German Rhine valley and Strasbourg. But it isn't quite, yet.
I think, we have a little 🚨 problem here. Let me explain my thoughts.
⬇️🧵Thread 🧵⬇️

View out of the window from the Bruxelles-Luxembourg Intercity. There are wide fields, a forest in the distance, a little pond in the foreground, all under a cloudy but bright sky.

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Do you know that feeling, when something which is progressing gradually for years suddenly reaches a tipping point?
In Zurich 🇨🇭, this is currently happening with trams - the trusty old Tram 2000 is becoming increasingly rare. They are being replaced by «Flexity» on more and more lines.
During the last weeks, it has changed from occasional «Oh, look, a new one! 😐» to «Oh, look, an old one! 🥰» for me.

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This network diagram in a not transport-related ad looks better than many real life examples designed to help passengers navigate in complex transit networks. 😅

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On a train in Norway. It's raining. Sitting in the lounge chair at the panorama window. Coffee and a warm cinnamon bun on the table. Shearwater's hauntingly beautiful acoustic version of 'Radio Silence' on the headphones.
Pretty perfect Sunday morning. 🥰

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Kenner:innen des deutschen Bahnbetriebs: Wie ist und war eigentlich der Laufweg der Nachtzüge zwischen Fulda und Göttingen in den letzten 10 Jahren?
Via Schnellfahrstrecke? Via Bestandesstrecke über Kassel oder über Sontra?

Fehrnbahn.de liefert für den CNL den Hinweis via Bebra (aber nicht wie weiter), für den NJ in späteren Jahren sind keine Zwischenstationen eingetragen und der DB Navigator liefert für 2023 eine Route via SFS.

Sachdienliche Hinweise werden gerne entgegengenommen.

Laufweg für den NJ 470 Zürich HB - Berlin Hbf 2022. Keine Angaben zum Laufweg zwischen Fulda und Göttingen.
Karte des Laufwegs des NJ 470 Zürich HB - Hamburg Altona 2023. Eingezeichnet ist die Route via Schnellfahrstrecke und Kassel Willhelmshöhe.

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Railfans and railway professionals of Mastodon:
If you want to learn fascinating stuff about overhead line equipment and traction current ⚡ - a field of the railway system I don't know much about - do follow @25kV and make sure not to miss his excellent threads he's gradually bringing to Mastodon: 👇
https://mas.to/@25kV/110962276174171304

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«An advanced city is not one where the poor own a car, but one where the rich use public transport.»
— Enrique Peñalosa

I guess, you can fairly assume your city has reached this point, when furniture shops choose the tram to advertise a CHF 525 wooden chair.

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Feierabend! Finally.
IC5 1533, Chopfab New England IPA.

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