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jon, to random
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They have a handy map of where Iโ€™m going tomorrow ๐Ÿ™‚

vandyke4ad,
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@vsaw @jon Belgrade and Istanbul, for instance, where โ€œin-townโ€ stations have been moved further out.

vandyke4ad,
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@jon @vsaw And Avignon TGV.
Perhaps the sometimes long stops here and at Aix are due to late-running feeders from where people actually live.

vandyke4ad,
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@jon This rack claims to be more secure because it has a free cable inside the tubing (similar to prison cell bars and bank vaults).
Sonโ€™s bike wasnโ€™t stolen in south London, they just cut the good bits off: brakes, saddle, Shimano digital gears.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-09/portland-s-new-bike-racks-are-designed-to-beat-thieves

partim, to random
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I could fly to Dublin in less than two hours (net). I could do the trip with fast trains and boats in a day.

Or I can stick to slow trains and take three days.

Either way, the journey starts here. And now.

vandyke4ad,
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@partim The โ€œsmall churchโ€ has little carvings outside that include hedgehogs and other odd items:
โ€œA knight, representing cowardice, drops his sword and flees from a rabbit popping out of a hole; a man and his wife, representing discord, throw pots and pans at each otherโ€ฆโ€

jon, to random
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Welcome to today's thread - South East Europe Day 06 04 Jun 2024 - Arrival of night train, Budapest - Pรฉcs - Beli Manastir - Osijek - Zagreb

Crossing these borders:
Lanลพhot ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฟ - Brodskรฉ ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฐ
ล tรบrovo ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฐ - Szob ๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡บ
Beli Manastir ๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡ท - Magyarbรณly ๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡บ

These borders on the borders map:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-all-the-borders_935041#8/48.971/18.358

Today's routes on the routes map:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-all-the-borders_935041#8/48.971/18.358

Finally South East Europe! ๐ŸŽ‰

vandyke4ad,
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@timrichards @jon The hzpp.hr website seemed incapable of producing a time for Zagreb - Split, just now.
Perhaps itโ€™s a โ€œnot every dayโ€ service, where you have to be clairvoyant about what day to select.
And phone them if you want to know if a train is on time, seemingly.

jon, to random
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Welcome to 2024 Extra Day 21 March - Berzรฉe - Mariembourg - Hirson - Aulnoye-Aymeries - Paris - Nuits-sous-Raviรจres

Today Iโ€™m crossing these borders
Anor ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท - Momignies ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ช

Map of todayโ€™s route
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-extra-days-2024_1030682#10/50.0444/4.3259

Todayโ€™s Live Blog
https://crossborderrail.trainsforeurope.eu/live-blog-2024-extra-day-21-march-berzee-mariembourg-hirson-aulnoye-aymeries-paris-nuits-sous-ravieres/

vandyke4ad,
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@jon Wasnโ€™t that the terminus of an isolated rural metre gauge line of the once-extensive SNCV?

kaia, to random
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the University of London leaked my email address to 3rd party spam senders. I know because I made a new one and they were the first I shared it with

vandyke4ad,
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@lain @kaia @hakui Our domain host (UK2.net) used to allow this, but stopped ten years (or more) ago.
Although this allowed users (inc. me) to invent email addresses like your โ€œcarpet@โ€ example, spammers did the same, by adding their own prefix@ to UK2-hosted domain names.

jon, to random
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Why third party rail ticket booking platforms are only inadvertently solving cross border ticketing problems

They're answering: โ€œIs there a train from A to B, and can we sell tickets for it?โ€

I want to answer: โ€œI want to go from A to B, how do I do that?โ€

Blog post ๐Ÿ‘‡
https://jonworth.eu/trainline-rail-europe-and-omio-only-inadvertently-solving-cross-border-rail-ticketing-headaches/

vandyke4ad,
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@jon Mark at Seat61 says Hendaye-San Sebastian train is buy the ticket at the station on the day (Euskotren โ‚ฌ2.75).
This is the route(London-Lisbon via Hendaye/Vigo/Porto) weโ€™re hoping to use in September - can get to San Sebastian in one day, if we get an early Eurostar from London.
โ€œOption 2โ€ on this page:
https://www.seat61.com/Portugal.htm#london-to-lisbon-by-train-via-vigo

RickGaehl, to photography
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Dawn breaks over the Severn Estuary on a morning.

vandyke4ad,
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@RickGaehl Experiencing dawn at Lydney Harbour isnโ€™t on my bucket list, even though itโ€™s only 25 minutes drive away.

jon, to random
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Now I am trying to get my head around luggage scans on Eurostar trains

Channel Tunnel security is determined, UK side, by the Channel Tunnel (Security) Order 1994 - PDF https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/570/made/data.pdf

This stipulates what is not permitted in terms of behaviours, but not that every single bag on a Eurostar has to be controlled

Could theoretically an operator not choose to control every bag?

vandyke4ad,
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@jon Obviously they wouldnโ€™t want to say what items qualify as suspicious.
Never been asked by Eurostar what anything is - in September we had a travel kettle, a phone power bank, numerous phone power cables and wall plugs, plus our โ€œtravelโ€ metal cutlery.
Once, at Calais Eurotunnel, travelling by coach*, we were asked if there was a tent on our rucksack.

  • coach passengers should always be suspected of being terrorists or drug smugglers, seemingly.
vandyke4ad,
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@jon If they have to have a scanning procedure, how much duplication (no. of lanes) of this is needed, would depend on the number of passengers, though a successful operator would hope for full trainloads.
A trainload is what Eurostar are dealing with, and thatโ€™s not particularly quick, to put it mildly.

Havenโ€™t been via Eurotunnel, since the 00s, but the, there was no scanning of car contents. There might have been a device for detecting explosives.

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    vandyke4ad,
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    @jon Havenโ€™t checked for dates in May, but Google Maps is saying thereโ€™s a 6:03 from La Ciotat to Hyรจres (via Toulon, obvs) tomorrow.
    The train from Toulon to Bandol and back to Toulon was quite busy last September- admittedly that was in the afternoon, though it was raining.

    jon, to random
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    โ€œMesdames et Messieurs, votre correspondance a รฉtรฉ assurรฉe parโ€ฆ OpenRailwayMapโ€

    TER arrives Dijon 10 mins late

    12 mins planned connection time becomes 2 mins

    Does train manager help at all with connections? No. Not even an apology for the delay announcement

    But I know I arrive Voie 3, and depart Voie F. Thanks to OpenRailwayMap I can deduce 3 is a terminus track, exit right, front of the train - for shortest dash to underpass to F

    And it worked!

    vandyke4ad,
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    @DiegoBeghin @jon We missed our train to Toulon the first time we used Gare de Lyon.
    it was leaving from Voie I. Which we mistakenly thought was 1.
    Having discovered that there was no โ€œVoie 1โ€, we ran back to the lettered platforms to see our train departing.
    These days, I think itโ€™s labelled as โ€œVoie iโ€, which is an improvement.

    jon, to random
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    While walking around the 18รจme in Paris this morningโ€ฆ thereโ€™s a car someone wiped out in the night. Petrol still dripping, indicators still flashing.

    vandyke4ad,
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    @25kV @jon Itโ€™s a Renault.

    jon, to random
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    Person I was due to meet in Paris just cancelled due to illness

    Could I go to Bourgogne earlier?

    SNCF ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

    Hang around 1 hour 40 in Laroche Migennes FTW. Or pay a fortune for a TGV via Montbard

    vandyke4ad,
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    @jon Laroche looks worth about 10 minutes of your attention.
    It does have a semi-circular โ€œround-houseโ€ engine shed near the station - looks disused.
    A bit indistinct on Google Maps, so canโ€™t tell if it has/had OHLE, like the one in Luzern.

    vandyke4ad,
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    @jon Canal=flat๐Ÿ™‚
    CC72000s must be getting a bit long in the tooth. Not as old as Class 37s, though.

    jon, to random
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    Oh! Hellenic train has a new booking site! ๐ŸŽ‰

    And trains seem to be running to Florina again! ๐ŸŽ‰

    But hang on... all the arrival and departure times are mixed up ๐Ÿ˜ก

    EDIT: ah no, still buses Edessa-Florina. It doesn't show you that in the booking screen... FFS.

    vandyke4ad,
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    @jon Greece is still not very interested in railways.
    We were quite surprised in 2009, how small Athens (old) station was, for a capital city - probably smaller than, say, Cambridge before its booking hall was enlarged.

    vandyke4ad,
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    @jon Over in the east (well, Turkey), there seems to be a large re-alignment of tracks going on southwest of Erdirne.
    On Google Maps - app doesnโ€™t give date (although thatโ€™s not always true).

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    Feels like 22ยฐF/-5.5C with the wind. Iโ€™m not at the top of the mountain, wth?

    March?

    Oh, yeah.

    Nice day if it doesnโ€™t snow.

    Crap.
    Snowing.

    Traveling to Danville today.

    One and a half hours away..

    Hope yโ€™all have a wonderful day!

    vandyke4ad,
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    @Pagan_Animist We have 14C/56F in Gloucestershire, UK.
    Forecast to be colder by the end of the week - down to 8C/44F by Monday - weatherโ€™s getting ready for Easter.

    jon, (edited ) to random
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    SNCF and Bourgogne-Franche-Comtรฉ, really, can you mess it up any more?

    TER Nuits-sous-Raviรจres - Laroche-Migennes - Auxerre arrives Laroche-Migennes just 1 minute before the Clamecy - Laroche-Migennes - Paris Bercy train departs

    Too tight to connect ๐Ÿ˜ก

    So I will have to take the 06:21 train instead. Thanks SNCF, thatโ€™ll be a 05:15 alarm โฐ

    vandyke4ad,
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    @jon In 2009, the ticket desk at Athens station, for booking the Thessaloniki to Istanbul sleeper*, didnโ€™t open until 1:30pm. This was half an hour after the last train from Athens to Thessaloniki that would get you there in time to catch the sleeper.

    • it was the second-hand Greek one we caught. The Turkish one was nicer, apparently.
    jon, to random
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    European Parliament, Michael Cramer report, 2015 - proposes 15 missing links to fix, of which 1 has been fixed

    Jon Worth's Top 20 from 2022 - 3 projects already fixed! FTW! ๐ŸŽ‰
    https://crossborderrail.trainsforeurope.eu/borders/top20/

    And that Marseille-Ventimiglia-Genova timetables now work - I might have had a very tiny role there, in that I flagged the problem to the head of regional passenger transport at Trenitalia at an event in Roma, and in summer 2022 she was unaware of the problem

    vandyke4ad,
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    @jon Can always hope.
    Donโ€™t know if it still does, but in 2015, the Network Rail search also refused to show journeys with more than 3 changes (as in the article).
    E.g. Newhaven to March: only one train result on a Sunday (with 3 changes). Whereas, using the half-hourly service from Newhaven to Brighton, there was approx. one a hour findable from there (journey times varied).

    vandyke4ad,
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    @jon From Global Railway Review* via Apple News.

    • tends to regurgitate PR handouts, with added explanations for simpletons: โ€œballast (the stones that support the track)โ€

    https://apple.news/Ahsez0ljsN4uZ3Xbcrzi6DA

    jon, to random
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    T&E, Allrail, Trainline, Flixtrain, Regiojet etc. have written to the European Commission demanding a reduction in track access charges - especially for cross border and night trains

    What impact would this have?

    For passengers and modal shift, pretty much none I reckon - especially short term, but it would help operators' balance sheets

    Explained in a blog post ๐Ÿ‘‡
    https://jonworth.eu/if-you-reduced-track-access-charges-in-european-passenger-rail-very-little-would-happen-at-least-short-term/

    vandyke4ad,
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    @jon Recently announced (?) new night train service from Brussels to Prague(via Amsterdam): European Sleeper. Their online booking site is hard work.

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    Ofsted inspectors โ€˜make up evidenceโ€™ about a schoolโ€™s performance when IT fails

    Inspector tells Observer investigation that top officials are aware that computer system crashes can wipe out data

    https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/feb/03/ofsted-inspectors-make-up-evidence-about-a-schools-performance-when-it-fails

    vandyke4ad,
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    @nyrath Presumably, they have paid a large sum of money for the software.
    A competent programmer should be able to write code that autosaves at intervals (as often as one or two minutes), and creates a backup file.
    And thereโ€™s no reason why the data couldnโ€™t be mirrored to a server, in the same way as photos on an iPhone are synced with iCloud.

    ErickaSimone, to random
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    โ€ฆ.And THIS is why I was at a bargaining table yesterday, fighting for Musicians rights.

    Get into this story. Please support these kids. Please. Support us before #skynet takes over and is making all the music you hear. Itโ€™s getting weird and scary out here.

    From: @yogthos
    https://mas.to/@yogthos/112020432735682211

    vandyke4ad,
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    @ErickaSimone @yogthos Julianne Regan, sometime singer with 1990ish folk-rock band, All About Eve, posted recently that for 32K streams, she got ยฃ2.61 (about $3.00).

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