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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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Esceedee, to random Dutch

@jon did you already know that the ns starts with reservations for trains to Germany and Belgium this summer? And that Early-Bird rules are going to change permanently?

https://www.ed.nl/reizen/ns-trapt-op-de-rem-vanwege-drukte-in-buitenlandse-treinen-reizigers-woedend~a3ccfbd8/

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@Esceedee yes. DB demanded it I’m told. Foolish I think.

bau, to random German

Tja :blobcatbox:

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@bau Veranstaltung morgen Abend in Hamburg. 19:30, Rathaus. Falls du Zeit hast!

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Booking interrail passholder reservations for the Porto-Vigo train: a short guide.

These reservations are free (€0!), and - contrary to all other Portuguese trains - can be booked by Renfe ticket offices. Not surprising, as regular tickets for this train can also be booked online from Renfe's site. Don't get fooled by staff that tell you they can't (as happened to us in Cáceres this morning).

However, when Renfe ticket office staff book them, they get pdf e-tickets, which they often can't print (unless they have a regular printer available). If they can't and they don't know what to do, simply ask for the booking reference and print them yourself from a Renfe self-service machine. That somehow works.

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@Schelte That’s new. I got one - for free - at the ticket office in Vigo Guixar last year but printed as a regular ticket.

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Welcome to - Day 00, 2 May – Berlin – Kiel – Oldenburg

Today I’m not going to be crossing any borders! But there is an event in Kiel at 18:30, that will also be streamed

Taking 3 trains (total 368.3 km), and 1 bus. And two small bike legs in Berlin and Kiel

Today’s live blog page is here 👇
https://crossborderrail.trainsforeurope.eu/live-blog-day-00/

And this is the first toot of today’s Mastodon thread

Here’s the video summary
https://urbanists.video/w/pnZS1MBfFotz5tsnsvUNsK

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Set aside whether Germany should fundamentally reconstruct rail infra a moment.

I think Germany does rail on tiny branch lines comparatively well.

Were this line in Spain it’d have been shut. In France it’d have 3 trains a day at times no one can use, but here it’s every hour. Czechia or Poland have trains like this, but they’re slower and the ride bumpier.

So given the lack of investment, this is actually as good an outcome as is possible.

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@der_mit_ph I took the Stettin-Pasewalk bit last year. So I’m now missing the Bad Kleinen-Pasewalk bit :-)

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@Alon Yep. Totally.

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Train 03

RE 83 (21022)
16:06 Lübeck Hbf - Kiel Hbf 17:16
erixx

Distance: 80 km
Average speed: 69 km/h

Train type: 2 Alstom LINT DMUs, each 2 short carriages
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🦽: ✅
🛜: ✅
🧳: 🤔 (older LINT unit, bit cramped. But better than Train 02)
🧽: 🙂 (it’s orderly)

: ✅

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And this is a bit absurd if you think about it - Kiel (246k) is the biggest city in Schleswig Holstein. Lübeck (211k) the second largest. 80km between them. And they’re connected by a single track non electrified railway…

Ok, infra in Schleswig Holstein is organised towards Hamburg, but this still ought to be better than it is!

Edit: there is some double track north of Eutin. But the basic point holds!

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My bizarre tri lingual mind translates this into Bad Sick Duck

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@senta_wolfsberg multiple wrongs don’t make a right!

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Plön. This little line is so nice.

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@PeterPractice Strike Mills

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You too can enjoy this on the - RE train Lübeck-Kiel, north of Plön

Video from a train window of the lake at Plön

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@boxofrain this is really old. My red one I use intensively is from 2001. This green one is 1999 or earlier. Could even be the first they sold.

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@bennileemhuis Damn. I’m too far south already. I can’t get from Enschede to Groningen then Winterswijk then Bocholt on Sunday…

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@olifantoliver Right. I went to the Stadler Pankow factory last year where they were making the trains for it ;-) But that’s not going to fix the capacity and lack of reliability due to the single track sections (that are 70% or so of it!)

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@boxofrain my red has it too. Honestly I always have it as high as it can go! So it has little advantage for me

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@bilginveperk By French standards yes. But still not as good as Germany

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@sqrt2 there used to be. There are people trying to re-open it…

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Live Stream aus Kiel - wir beginnen in kürze! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC1q2ZYN3kI

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@partim sure. But we have had 70 years since!

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During there’ll be occasional posts. But as there’s no train here it’s to Oldenburg (Holstein).

Störtebeker Baltik Lager. Golden and caramel-ish, malty. It’s one of the best mid price beers in Germany I think (Störtebeker Pilsner is also excellent)

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Kiel, earlier

The Birdy in a bio supermarket

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@zeemzee the lakes looked wonderful from the train! I must return.

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Bus 01

310
20:47 Kiel ZOB - Oldenburg Holstein Hopfenmarkt 22:07
Autokraft / DB

Distance: 60 km
Average speed: 45 km/h

Bus type: MAN Lion’s City (I think - I’m not good at identifying buses!)
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🚲: ⛔️
🦽: ✅
📶: ⛔️
🧳: 🤔 (city bus on a regional line - not great)
🧽: 🙂

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