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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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Welcome to Day 10. Off to Austria and Czechia today!

https://urbanists.video/w/bssxjGvWUcXKopeDCQN5R9

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@elba013 it’s got good connections. But the info provided is very poor.

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@wanisbunes Sure. But you’ve still got to do it! SNCF could treat Saarbrücken as a regular SNCF station, or DB could treat Strasbourg as a DB station. But they don’t.

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@Pubstrat right. But they’re quite rare now!

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@hydrandt True. It’s not accessible for many. But it’s somehow charming!

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This house stands on the old rail line in Neureichenau

This one isn’t going to be re-activated

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@t_mkdf if only this was actually a strategy ;-)

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Waldkirchen. Charming old station.

Waldkirchen Station
Tracks at Waldkirchen. To the left towards Freyung. To the right now a cycle path towards Czechia.
Signs at Waldkirchen

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Bayern 😡

This isn’t any good!

I know this Bundesland doesn’t have a problem with asphalt - as they cover too many roads with it

Could they have perhaps used a little on the cycle path Waldkirchen - Nove Udoli? Instead of this mush?

I’m only 1/3 done and I’m shattered

I’ve only seen 2 more cyclists so far, over 10km, and I understand why!

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@elba013 it’s in a really bad condition this path. No one has done any repair work. It’s the worst one of these paths I’ve taken. Very frustrating.

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@guenterhack yep. Loads of countries doing it. It’s really infuriating

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@elba013 still gets stuck in Passau traffic!

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@wanisbunes Yes! ProBahn explained. By the end of this decade it’ll be a lot better here. Although I like it even now (although retro isn’t to everyone’s tastes!)

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Eh EU. If you financed this, couldn’t you have made a decent cycle path instead of this mushy mess?

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There’s so much traffic around Röhrnbach and Waldkirchen. Running regular trains Passau - Waldkirchen - Freyung would surely work?

From Waldkirchen onwards towards Czechia… I’ll be looking at that now!

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@nblr Ha! That’s even cuter!

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The rail border approaching Passau. I’ll let you guess which way is Germany and which way is Austria…

View from a train window. No weeds and concrete masts.

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And yes of course I could get online tickets out of Germany (Simbach-Braunau) and into Germany (Neumarkt-Passau)

Because this - unlike the border Germany-France - is a place where they speak to each other either side of the border and work out things like this

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@bentsukun Sure. But Czechia does better than many others - with less money…

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Train 40

REX 1778
12:32 Neumarkt-Kallham - Passau Hbf 13:12
ÖBB

Distance: 51 km
Average speed: 77 km/h

Train type: locomotive (probably class 1144) pushing 5 single deck carriages
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🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (needs a lift)
🛜: ⛔️
🧳: 🙂
🧽: 🙂

: ⛔️

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@h0m54r yeah it’s pretty much that. Transporting as many people as possible by train actually matters in Austria.

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At Neumarkt-Kallham there’s an even smaller train - belongs to the Linzer Lokalbahn (LILO)

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Bus 05

100
13:22 Passau Hbf - Waldkirchen Busbahnhof 14:06 (departed 12 mins late)
Prager Reisen

Distance: 27 km
Average speed: 37 km/h

Bus type: Setra S 415 LE Business
⛽️
🚲: ❓(not allowed I think)
🦽: ✅
📶: ✅ (sponsored by Land Bayern)
🧳: 🤔 (no overhead racks, some space above wheel arches)
🧽: 🙂

: ✅

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@guenterhack Yep. I’ve been delayed in the past because of that. It’s really annoying.

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@guenterhack let’s see. I’m on a local train to Passau, so not inevitable it gets checked. But I’m ready for it!

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Getting the bus in Passau was the first WTF moment of

I followed signs for buses from the station platform. These lead to the square in front of the station… and stop. There are buses to the left, front/below, and the right. No obvious maps what bus goes from where, no live data (the bus was 12 mins late) - but had it not been it’d have been tight

And in the bus itself no live info at all

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