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smveerman

@smveerman@zug.network

🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 (zij/haar). Rotterdamse, in het dagelijks leven kantoorbureaucraat, daarbuiten wandelaar (#SpoorLangsWandeling), skater (#Suuskate) en treinreiziger.

🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 (she/her). Living in Rotterdam. My daily life consists of office bureaucracy, at other times busy hiking (#SpoorLangsWandeling), skater (#Suuskate) and traveling by train.

My native language is Dutch, and so are my toots. But don’t hesitate to reply in English or German, I can read it and write back in your language.

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simondh, to random Dutch
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Brioche met ijs 😬

smveerman,
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@simondh Ontbijt van de goden.

smveerman, to random
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Dear Dutchies: please note this is the last holiday until Wednesday 25 December. So enjoy it, but please don’t get hit by a thunder stroke :blobcatheart:

ummels, to random German
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Guten Morgen aus Liberec zu Tag 4 von . Heute soll es nicht nur auf den höchsten Berg Tschechiens gehen sondern später auch noch nach Mähren. Zunächst fahren wir aber mit einem RegioShuttle aka RegioSpider nach Polen. 🇵🇱

smveerman,
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@nordkommission @wrzlbrnft @ummels Machen wir eine Wanderung? Ich bin dabei! 🚶‍♀️

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This suggestion by DB isn’t just overly optimistic, it is borderline insane. Walking in three minutes from a “b” to an “a” platform through the tunnels when everyone on the arriving train has to change and clogs the stairs? Good luck with that.

(I sent in a report, let’s see if they will fix it.)

smveerman,
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@partim @wrzlbrnft Same platform same phase is 2 minutes (from 10b to 11b), same platform different phase (for example from 13b to 14a) or to the next platform (from 10b to 14a) is 3 minutes, each additional intermediate platform is an extra minute.

From 10/11 to 15 is thus at least 4 minutes.

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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.

smveerman,
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@partim Last vehicle goes to Lille, other vehicles to Poperinge. Except when the number of the last vehicle starts with a 5.

smveerman,
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@jon @partim I’ve noticed those VR2N mostly on ‘fast’ services from Lille to Calais or Maubeuge. I am wondering why they still are in service, with the deliveries of the new OMNEO Premium trains for Paris bound services, it was assumed that the V2N carriages previously used on those services would replace them. And yeah, I’ve also noticed some strange choices in the train composition choices in HdF.

smveerman,
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@partim @jon The V2N is a lot more comfortable, with 2+2 instead of 2+3 seating.

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@partim Tram, take 3. The second one was a failed TVR.

smveerman,
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@partim Huh? The Normandy Régio 2N have perfectly aligned seats with the windows, in contrast with the regional models found almost everywhere :blobcatthinkingglare:

smveerman,
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@partim I didn’t even know these train have first class :blobcatthinkingglare: Most regions abolished it.

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My tram is stuck in traffic. A BMW passed us on the right and decided to dump his car in the small spot the tram driver had in front of him 🥴

jon, to random
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SNCF Connect “Train Full”

The train… not even half full 🤦‍♂️

And ok, there are stops between Paris and Nuits-sous-Ravières but normally more get off than get on at Sens, Joigny etc.

And yes I just booked on a later one and took the 13:35 earlier one

Empty seats
Even more empty seats
And yet more empty seats

smveerman,
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@jon They don’t stop the ticket sales at the horrendous regional ticket machines. And when trains between Auxerre and Paris are full, why don’t they run them with two multiple units then 🤦‍♀️

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I want a travel date with this ICNG-B :blobcatheart:

smveerman, to random
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NS and ProRail are collectively fined € 3,25 million by the Dutch government for underperformance in 2023. Most of the fine is to be paid by ProRail, € 2,75 million. Most of the fine is coming from the high speed line underperforming, where a 80 km/h speed restriction is in place because of a problematic viaduct. The fine is to be returned towards the passengers. With the fine for 2022 social interactions and dating facilities between train passengers have to be improved.

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One of the most iconic emblems of the Dutch railway network is soon to be extinct. During electrification of the railways of Noord-Brabant in the 1950’s, concrete overhead wire portals were used. Now 70 years later, they have reached end of life and are due for replacement. The portals used in Noord-Brabant are quite elegant, because they have a lightly curved top bar. ProRail already started the replacement, which is planned to take a couple of more years.

smveerman,
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@partim Those are a “rijksmonument” and thus protected. The concrete portals on lines going north or east of Amersfoort build in the 1940’s are also in danger, but there in most cases the top bar already is replaced with a steel one because the straight concrete bar was very prone to cracks. That’s also the reason they are curved in Brabant.

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Probably worst trains in the Netherlands: Arriva GTW on the line Nijmegen - Venlo - Roermond. With their 3+2 seats.

Three seats forming a long bench.

smveerman, to random Dutch
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Keizer Karelplein in Nijmegen is completely bonkers. Why is there even a park in the middle?!

jon, to random
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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
smveerman,
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@maartje @jon So, France and The Netherlands are the only one doing this right? 😳

smveerman,
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@jon @maartje Don’t have a picture from last weekend, but do from last year.

smveerman,
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@jon @maartje I’m not that sure. I cannot count the number of times the first class position of an AM96 train has been announced wrong.

jon, to random
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Today isn’t a investigation day, but I’m happy to use a new emoji

In my assessments of more than 600 trains it’s always been ⚡️ or ⛽️ and even once 🔥

Today - finally! - it’s 🔋

I’m taking one of the battery electric EMUs Stadler built for Schleswig Holstein between Büchen and Lübeck

Elektrisch ohne Oberleitung - electric without overhead wire on the sticker on the train

smveerman,
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@jon Huge improvement to the old LINT41 trains on those lines!

jon, to random
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“Mesdames et Messieurs, votre correspondance a été assurée par… OpenRailwayMap”

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!

smveerman,
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@jon @DiegoBeghin Wondering, is track 37 with a seperate entrance also still around in Dijon?

smveerman, to random
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I love the fact I can go from Paris to Rotterdam Centraal in 2h40 minutes. It is just that the whole “it’s a plane on rails” idea is so annoying.

jon, to random
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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,
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@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.

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