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jon

@jon@gruene.social

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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ummels, to random German
@ummels@freiburg.social avatar

Auf geht's! 🇨🇿 #AllTheLinesSemmering (@ ICE 78 ➜ Karlsruhe Hbf) #NowTräwelling https://traewelling.de/status/2621943

ummels,
@ummels@freiburg.social avatar

Karlovy Vary ist auch bei Regen ganz nett, aber der Bahnhof ist höher gelegen als die Innenstadt. Es gibt aber noch einen schicken "unteren" Bahnhof im Ostblock-Stil und just von dort fährt mein "RegioShark" nach Johanngeorgenstadt ab. 🇨🇿🇩🇪

Bahnhof mit darunter gelegenem Busbahnhof im Ostblock-Beton-Stil
Alte Abfahrtstafel mit Abfahrt nach Johanngeorgenstadt um 17:03
Blau-weißer RegioShark (Pesa Link) vor Betonbau

patrick, to random
@patrick@mendeddrum.org avatar

23 pages of manure (literally, sometimes. I hate manure) that is the extreme-right Dutch Agreement can contain interesting stuff nevertheless. For there's two sentences (both on page 9):

  1. 'In the border regions, good rail connections with the neighboring country are essential.'
  2. ´There will be a proposal for cross-border rail transport, including the connection of five train stations to international HSL lines (e.g. Hengelo, Venlo, Heerlen, Groningen and Zwolle).' (1/3).
bahnoev, to random German
@bahnoev@mastodon.online avatar

Bahnausbau nach Mühldorf dauert ewig. Wird es jetzt konkret?

Der Bahnausbau nach Mühldorf ist eine Endlos-Geschichte. Die Bahntechnik stammt noch aus der Prinzregentenzeit – vor 1900. Seit Jahrzehnten soll die eingleisige, nicht elektrifizierte Strecke ausgebaut werden. Ist es jetzt endlich so weit?

https://www.merkur.de/lokales/erding/der-bahnausbau-nach-muehldorf-ist-eine-endlos-geschichte-sob-muenchen-muehldorf-93073614.html

jon, to random
@jon@gruene.social avatar

Ah

We’ve got another example of that legendary cooperation between state railways today in Köln

Where the Eurostar* stops at the platform is NOT shown on the screens (while for RE and ICE trains it is shown)

So Eurostar employs a person on the platform to tell passengers where to stand 🤦‍♂️

    • Eurostar is 55% SNCF, 18% SNCB
maartje,
@maartje@blahaj.social avatar

@jon "excuseer reist u met Eurostar?" Staff hired just to ask every person waiting that...efficiency!

andrew_shadura, to random
@andrew_shadura@mastodon.social avatar

A lot of things went wrong on this train, but the ČD/JLV @diningcar didn't disappoint. As always, great coffee, and while they had no payment terminal, they were happy to accept payment by a SEPA bank transfer.

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jon, to random
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DB ICE 731 Hamburg - Köln

A slowish route because all the infra is old. And it’s a ICE 1 from the 1980s, renovated more than a decade ago

But the ambience on board, the comfort of the seats, are still excellent. It’s like someone actually thought “what would passengers actually appreciate in a train interior?”

It doesn’t feel like packing as many people in as possible was the priority. And that’s so nice 😊

akrumeich,
@akrumeich@social.cologne avatar

@jon Not a coincidence that https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICE_1 is today’s “Article of the Day” in the German Wikipedia, is it? 😁

jon, to random
@jon@gruene.social avatar

Fuck off really.

In the train to Hamburg. A dude starts playing music on his phone loudly. I ask him to use earphones. He says he has none. And he gets aggressive towards me and asks me to move. And then accuses me of being aggressive because I got annoyed. 😡

But at least he stops playing the music.

vaurora,
@vaurora@wandering.shop avatar

@jon @quixoticgeek my go-to for this situation is to start playing "Wicked Game" at full volume on my phone while bopping along. I love the song and it is guaranteed to irritate anyone playing music out loud on transit

jon, to random
@jon@gruene.social avatar

If you’re a regular on trains anywhere, get the Railmap app. It’s an app based version of OpenRailwayMap

Some day when you need info, and railway firms aren’t providing it, it’ll save you - as it did for me today in Dijon

iOS
https://apps.apple.com/de/app/railmap-for-open-railway-map/id1374554550?l=en-GB

Android
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.alexamin.railmap&pli=1

_Hemmschuh,
@_Hemmschuh@zug.network avatar

@jon
If you use OsmAnd, just put Openrailwaymap on your map as a layer 🙃

chrisgerhard, to random
@chrisgerhard@toot.bike avatar

Oh look another way motorists will be able to blame cyclists when they hit them. They did not have C-V2X so how was I supposed to know to look up from my phone.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/05/the-vehicle-and-bicycle-safety-tech-that-can-see-through-walls/?comments=1&comments-page=1

tbaldauf, to random
@tbaldauf@social.tchncs.de avatar

Journalist: "So what do you think long-distance air travel is going to look like in 2050?"

Climate Scientist laughs derisively: "By 2050, most long-distance holiday destinations will be uninhabitable, so I expect the majority of long-distance air traffic to be non-existent by 2050."

Phew. Hadn't heard it THAT bleakly during a live interview yet.

jon, to random
@jon@gruene.social avatar

While the rest of Europe is wondering how to sell more international rail tickets, SNCF is doing the opposite from 23 May 🙄

@bilginveperk alerted me

Pretty simple international trips like
Paris - Verviers 🇧🇪
Paris - Rastatt 🇩🇪
can no longer be bought!

Paris - Verviers - 24 May nothing
Paris - Rastatt 22 May gives some options
Paris - Rastatt 24 May suggests I go to Lauterbourg close to the border French side

smveerman,
@smveerman@zug.network avatar

@jon Oh, salty. For every continental country they added a name and a link to a railway company where you could buy a ticket, but not for Italy and Spain.

jon, to random
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The “high speed” train Marseille - Bruxelles (that I’m taking as far as Lyon today)

Along its whole route it spends 67 minutes at stops! 🤦‍♂️

pb,
@pb@chaos.social avatar

@jon The 27 minutes in Lille are really convenient if you need to move from one end of the first train to the other end of the other one because you had to buy two separate tickets because the Carte Avantage only applies on domestic tickets. Or because there were no seats available all the way from the south to Bruxelles. Or both.

Island_Martha, to random
@Island_Martha@epicure.social avatar

Eestist Eurovision entry: 5MIINUST ja Puuluup! did not fly to Stockholm; they took a bus to a ferry. @jon

martincampbell2, to random
@martincampbell2@mastodon.coffee avatar

@jon Did you see that (Dutch Wahl-O-Mat equivalent) included a question on ?
23. European trains
The EU should invest in more cross-border European railway routes
https://eu-en.stemwijzer.nl/#/

zukunftmobil, to random German
@zukunftmobil@verkehrswende.social avatar

Mobilitätsdatengesetz: Reisebuchung mit verschiedenen Verkehrsmitteln soll leichter werden. Ein „Bundeskoordinator“ soll Leitlinien erlassen, welche die Spezifikationen, Standards, Anforderungen und Formate der Daten festlegen sowie die Zusammenarbeit zwischen den Dateninhabern und den Datennutzern regeln. Die Koordination soll bei der Bast angesiedelt und mit 22 Stellen ausgestattet werden. Das BALM soll die Einhaltung kontrollieren (4 Stellen, max. 10.000 € Bußgeld) - https://netzpolitik.org/2024/mobilitaetsdatengesetz-reisebuchung-mit-verschiedenen-verkehrsmitteln-soll-leichter-werden/

jon, to random
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Welcome to today's thread - 2024 Extra Days 7 May - La Ciotat - Nice - Ventimiglia - Limone - Breil-sur-Roya - Nice - La Ciotat

Crossing these borders:
Cap d'Ail 🇫🇷 - Monte Carlo 🇲🇨
Monte Carlo Country Club 🇫🇷 - Monte Carlo 🇲🇨
Ventimiglia 🇮🇹 - Menton Garavan 🇫🇷
Olivetta-S. Michele 🇮🇹 - Breil-sur-Roya 🇫🇷
Limone 🇮🇹 - Vievola 🇫🇷

These borders on the borders map:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-all-the-borders_935041#10/43.9647/7.5998

Today's routes on the routes map:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-extra-days-2024_1030682#9/43.7562/7.0367

bovine3dom,
@bovine3dom@masto.ai avatar

@michael_h @jon even fixing the timetables would be great. The first train from Nice gets to Ventimiglia at 06:31 and the first Italian train to Limone leaves Ventimiglia at 06:18. The next one leaves at 10:39...

herrschultheis,
@herrschultheis@zug.network avatar

@jon passenger information is not good either: I was trying to use that train last year when there was strike action in a french signal box. no one in Italy was able to tell me whether the train was running or not, even at the counter in Ventimiglia (turns out it was not actually). In Trenitalia IT systems, the train does not exist outside of Italy.

th,
@th@v.st avatar

@jon beware of cyclists doing wheelies in the crosswalk

jon, to random
@jon@gruene.social avatar

Tomorrow is a extra day

5 borders
Cap d'Ail 🇫🇷 - Monte Carlo 🇲🇨 (last there June 2023)
Monte Carlo Country Club 🇫🇷 - Monte Carlo 🇲🇨 (also June 2023)
Ventimiglia 🇮🇹 - Menton Garavan 🇫🇷 (also June 2023)
Olivetta-S. Michele 🇮🇹 - Breil-sur-Roya 🇫🇷 (never been)
Limone 🇮🇹 - Vievola 🇫🇷 (last December 2001 and it was dark)

First problem: tickets

You can’t get a price for the Italian train on the French section 😡

Trenitalia app also showing no prices

wrzlbrnft,
@wrzlbrnft@troet.cafe avatar

@partim @jon Trenitalia printed timetable tells me, that between French station SNCF tarification applies. So a simple TER ticket (even for one TER before or later) should do the job.

jon, to random
@jon@gruene.social avatar

Ha

If only my knowledge of EU law had the desired impact this fast every time 🙂

My father wanted to pay a EDF French electricity bill from a Belgian bank account, and was told that this was not possible because the bank was outside France

I formulated a stern email to EDF for him, in French, stipulating this was not allowed as a reason within the Single European Payment Area (SEPA), and within a few hours they relented in a grovelling email!

apicultor,
@apicultor@hachyderm.io avatar

@jon Whenever I have experienced IBAN discrimination in France, I have sent this PDF and they have changed their tune right quick.

May it serve you (and your father) well.

https://www.economie.gouv.fr/files/files/directions_services/dgccrf/presse/communique/2021/CP-CNPS-DGCCRF.PDF

jon, to random
@jon@gruene.social avatar

Super U Gaufres Liégeoises

When you’re trying a bit too hard to make Belgian waffles French

Oh and palm oil damn it. Not buying these again!

And they could have used French sugar, but didn’t…

Enterprise de France on the label
Some ingredients are not from France on the back

12pt9,
@12pt9@horrorhub.club avatar

@jon The tourist board has an authentic recipe on their website. Besides flour nothing mentioned on the supermarket waffles is used 🤔 https://www.visitezliege.be/en/page/authentique-gaufre-de-liege

Schleifleistenbruch, to random German
@Schleifleistenbruch@zug.network avatar

Heute geht es weiter Richtung Rumänien.
Dazu wird am frühen Morgen des Karfreitag ein Desiro Richtung Добрич (Dobrich) bestiegen. Anfangs dieselt der etwas auf der elektrifizierten Strecke entlang des Hafens von Варна (Varna), die ich gestern schon kennengelernt habe.
Dann zweigt die Strecke nach rechts/Norden ab und die Oberleitung hört nach einigen Kilometern auf, wenn auch Oberleitungsmaste noch einige Kilometer weiter stehen.
Die Gegend rund um Добрич (Dobrich) ist eine sehr vom Ackerbau geprägte Landschaft, davon sieht man allerdings wegen der hohen Büsche links und rechts der Strecke eher weniger.
In Добрич (Dobrich) steht dann schon die gewünschte Lok - eine Ludmilla - bereit. Diese hat einen Kursschlafwagen aus София (Sofia) und einen Sitzwagen bereits eine gute Stunde eher aus Варна (Varna) hierher gebracht. Jetzt fährt dieser übermotorisierte Zug mich Richtung rumänische Grenze nach Кардам (Kardam). Der Schlafwagen fährt ab jetzt leer und verschlossen mit; dieser ist auch nur bis Добрич (Dobrich) buchbar.

Eine Materialseilbahn in hügeliger Umgebung.
Haltepunkt Ботево, als Unterstand dient eine Hütte aus frischem Wellblech.
Bahnhof Добрич (Dobrich). Links im Bild das hohe Empfangsgebäude in sozialistischem Stil, daneben eine Ludmilla mit zwei Wagen und ein Siemens Desiro Classic.

Schleifleistenbruch,
@Schleifleistenbruch@zug.network avatar

Now we get to today's ! @jon
The train terminates at Кардам (Kardam) which is about 5 km from the Romanian border. The following part of the line in Bulgaria is still in acceptable condition, e. g. the railway crossing is still maintained.
After I had to answer some stupid questions by the Bulgarian border police, I made my way into Romania. Unfortunately, the railway line is not very close to the road in Romania. But my impression from the distance was that the tracks are still usable.
The first railway station in Romania is Negru Vodă which isn't served by trains anymore. The tracks were in poor condition and need a lot of repair if you want to run trains there again.

A unused railway crossing, there is a but of grass on the track.
A big meadow with a railway line crossing through. There is a small bridge over some water.
Railway station Negru Vodă. Everything looks rusty or is covered by weeds.

K1ngdaKa88, to random German
@K1ngdaKa88@zug.network avatar

Das ist nicht mehr meine SBB! 🥺 :omya_sbb:

Zug so stark verspätet, dass er sogar bei der :db: als verspätet zählen würde! 😶‍🌫️

wrzlbrnft, to random German
@wrzlbrnft@troet.cafe avatar


Heute soll es heimwärts gehen. Zwei knappe Anschlüsse im französischen Zwangsreservierungsnetz machen mir noch Bauchschmerzen. Mal sehen, ob ich heute nach Hause kommen.

Einstweilen geht es mit der Großen WESTbahn (oder so) nach London.
Mit mir sind vier mutmaßliche Allgäuerinnen reiferen Alters im Wagen. 🤯

GWR-Triebzug im Bahnhof Penzance.
1. Klasse im GWR-Triebzug.

wrzlbrnft,
@wrzlbrnft@troet.cafe avatar

In Offenburg hätte ich eh keinen Anschluss mehr nach Basel (doch: wär kein SEV, hätte ich einen!!!), aber wer so einen Nicht-Abschluss wie hier in Strasbourg plant, hat einfach auch nicht mehr alle Nadeln an der Fichte.

cc @bwegtBW @jon

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18+ mahrko, to random German
@mahrko@zug.network avatar

@jon Deutsche Busfahrer haben leider Streckenkunde in Frankreich. Und umgekehrt. Ein Wunder, dass man nicht über die EUROPA-Brücke laufen muss. Man möchte heulen. https://www.sweg.de/fileadmin/user_upload/pdf/fahrplaene/ortenau/sweg-aushang-naechtlicher-sev-offenburg-strassburg-mai2024.pdf?version=1714117946

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