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@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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jon, to random
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Ah ha!

Finally the NEWAG train sabotage story has hit the mainstream - in WSJ

Link via @jeffjarvis
https://www.wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/hackers-trains-disabled-poland-1b1f501a?st=nqsmoey6ktrsg14&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

Only 6 months late, but I am nevertheless glad! https://jonworth.eu/newags-digital-sabotage-of-dolny-slasks-trains-what-were-they-thinking/

andrew_shadura, to random
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I’m really curious what are these NS IC NG doing in Dresden

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jon,
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@andrew_shadura Parked up awaiting approval. Brought from Wroclaw.

jon,
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@andrew_shadura there are still ongoing approvals problems. But the trains are still being built. So have to be parked up somewhere…

jon, to random
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Right. In a week from now I will already be on the 2nd train of this year's , heading north from Paris

A week to get a hell of a lot done still...

Apart from a couple of loose ends in North Macedonia and Albania I am pretty much set though!

quixoticgeek, to random
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Rail geeks, what's happening with the ICE L stock replacing the steam train between Amsterdam and Berlin? Have they been spotted doing testing and validation runs?

Cc @jon

jon,
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@quixoticgeek approval delayed. Now due to run in 2025.

jon,
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@quixoticgeek Talgo 🤷‍♂️ I’m not surprised.

jon,
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@quixoticgeek Talgo has built lots of standard gauge stuff. The problem is the quality (it’s… odd).

algowatching, to random
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🚆 I've just been sent this screenshot from the DB Navigator, showing a 3-hour delay in Berlin, even though the train was on time.

The personnel on board told passengers to ignore the delay, saying that it was "an error from the AI". (But emails offering compensation were sent).

Do you train nerds know about this DB system to predict delays? And why it fails so often that DB employees learned to ignore it?

cc @jon

jon,
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@algowatching no idea. I’ll ask a few people.

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@algowatching contact says there have been some diversions via Dessau, so perhaps that was the cause, and then the train in the end wasn’t diverted. But more likely it was a data entry error. He reckons the chance this is a AI gone wrong is low.

jon, to random
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in Ravières

Wheat field. Lens flare sun.

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.

jon,
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@partim what? You think SNCF thinks that logically? 🤔 Those operate with 6 carriages as standard.

jon,
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@partim Those 6 carriage ones often run Lille - Valenciennes that I take once in a while. And to me it’s totally random if you get a 2 carriage double deck EMU, or that. Makes no sense at all.

jon, to random
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Ok. planning done for now

Today is fete du pain in Ravières - the once a year they fire up the communal oven

The baker attends to the oven
The plaque confirming the renovation of the oven

jon,
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@hans_zelf Correct. There is a regular bakery.

jon,
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@arratoon No. A retired Boulanger comes from the neighbouring village.

jon, to random
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😡

I’ve messed up

Riga - Vilnius train 2nd June (so a fortnight from now) is sold out!

jon,
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Phew 😅

I managed to find a way

Riga 🇱🇻 - Siauliai 🇱🇹 1st class
then
Siauliai 🇱🇹 - Vilnius 🇱🇹 2nd class in the same train

... and so it will work

But this is the success of the Riga - Vilnius route. People really take it!

jon,
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@grlodi Seat reservations mandatory. But yes, I found a 1st/2nd class split in Siauliai so it works. But had I tried this in a few days there would have been the danger it would not have worked!

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@DiegoBeghin it was only introduced in December! And now less than 6 months into the service it is already sold out. There is a discussion about a second daily train, but I reckon you could happily run 4 a day.

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@DiegoBeghin when I went to the Baltics in 2022 there was nothing at that border, and I had to cycle across.

jon,
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@Unicorn Dieses Zug hat ein Reservierungspflicht, also anderen Tricks waren nicht möglich!

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@ehrba And I agree with @Island_Martha - there’s much more rail potential in the Baltics than people realise, especially Latvia that (unlike Estonia) still has a quite terrible railway.

jon, to random
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Blog post summing up my investigations this week into SNCF's decision to stop selling most international train tickets

“SNCF is stopping sales of most international tickets – a decision rooted in incompetence, and communicated with malevolence”
https://jonworth.eu/sncf-is-stopping-sales-of-most-international-tickets-a-decision-rooted-in-incompetence-and-communicated-with-malevolence/

jon,
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@DoubleArobase right, absolutely, and yes she did say that!

jon,
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@filiplachert do you know anyone working at Koleo? I'd like to find out more!

jon,
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@sznowicki Not very systematically though in my experience. But yes somehow.

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