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• Post #4495885

  FFS Spain is such a pile of abject shit when it comes to rail timetables Sure, the trains are fast *if and when they go*, but nothing connects properly #LongestTrainEU #CrossBorderRail

• Post #4488209

  Way to go DSB 🤣 On your *national* website you have Hamburg ZOB listed, and that's the Zentralomnibusbahnhof (bus station) (pic 1, 2) To get a train to Hamburg Hbf, the main station, you need to use the DSB International website (pic 3) https://www.dsb.dk/en/international/ But to Flensburg - which is in Germany - *is* on the national site. Totally makes sense (pic 4) #LongestTrainEU #CrossBorderRail

• Post #4485834

  Umeå C - København H, using the Umeå - Stockholm night train *obviously* should route you Umeå - Stockholm - Lund - København DB ✅ Railfinder @railfinder.eu ✅ SJ 🤯 Let's make you change in Gävle, Linköping and Malmö instead, with a much longer trip time #LongestTrainEU #CrossBorderRail

• Post #4481591

  Right then! Record attempt: Longest train journey in the EU is live! https://crossborderrail.eu/longestjourney/ #CrossBorderRail #LongestTrainEU

• Post #4380994

  Landsberg (Warthe) Hbf Hard to photograph as the train suddenly got busy

• Post #4373689

  Thorn Schlüssel

• Post #4370249

  Today‘s #CrossBorderRail Preußische Ostbahn to Berlin Via Torún, Bydgoszcz, Piła, Krzyż, Kostrzyn And with time to go see the old HQ in Bydgoszcz

• Post #4358811

  So as my holiday train trip nears its end (Olzstyn - Berlin tomorrow), so my thoughts turn to #CrossBorderRail in the coming months 🙂 This all starts on 9th August at Lindow (Mark), north of Berlin, where 40 photos from my projects are going to be shown in the garden of the station: https://www.plattform-paradies.de/grenzueberschreitende-bahnstrecken-europas/ COME ALONG if you live near Berlin! It's free! And at 16:00 I explain everything...

• Post #4347782

  I’ve got through the gap

• Post #4311504

  GoVolta isn’t going to run high speed trains Amsterdam - Paris in 2028 (I’m on holiday. I’ll analyse this more once I’m back at my desk)

• Post #4283798

  Now I’m into Estonia and across the #kvass frontier, let’s test some Fresh kvass is hard to get in Tallinn (the only place Trip Advisor claimed had any, didn’t) Background about Kvass here: https://www.alecoq.ee/en/the-story-of-kvass/

• Post #4117741

  Niche German political humour https://istschniedernochimamt.com

• Post #3986101

  Carnoules, today 🤯 Track deformation due to heat (and I presume also poor maintenance?) could have derailed a TGV I’m on holiday, but I’ve got enough stories for two newsletters…

• Post #3963670

  Information at Oslo S for international trains 🙄 The train to Stockholm is operated by SJ 🇸🇪 So the live data doesn’t work correctly in 🇳🇴 Everyone is waiting at Platform 14, and the train arrives at Platform 6. I ask the SJ staffer on Platform 14 who brusquely tells me there’s no problem And yeah, I’m right and the SJ dude is wrong, and stressed passengers sprint across

• Post #3960007

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@Edent/116952092299773292 This is really good. I’d also add: a system that works for multiple cities / modes in a country helps too. Entur 🇳🇴 is exemplary in this regard.

• Post #3954862

  Damn what are Norrtåg doing now? 🤔 Even the extra train Haparanda - Boden on the day Tornio - Haparanda opens (10 August) is not available And every train *other than* the midday train on every subsequent day is also not available for purchase This launch is 3 weeks away, and data and ticketing are STILL a total shit show #CrossBorderRail

• Post #3851806

  Ah Don’t you just love timetable data coordination! Entur (Norwegian travel planner) says the Oslo S - Dombås (- Trondheim) train goes at 07:50 Interrail and DB say 08:02 (pretty sure these are wrong)

• Post #3813422

  Another world Vy - Norwegian operator of the Göteborg - Oslo trains - will help you get a ticket if you don’t have one Imagine if SNCF did that!

• Post #3806964

  Damn I’m sick of borders EDIT: more like I am sick of borders not working as the law says they should

• Post #3741353

  Trains in this part of Denmark 🙄 All ETCS equipped ✅ Overhead wires ✅ Passenger trains all ⛽️ Platform even in Vejle (6th biggest city) not properly disabled accessible 🦽 And live data is totally incomprehensible in Rejseplanen

• Post #3723959

  Danish border control fascist ******* “Do you not believe in border controls?” he asks me. You’ve had temporary border controls here 11 years you shits #Schengen

• Post #3717456

  Departing Nuits on a sunny morning The birds are pooing on the SNCF sign, and the trains are keeping the bushes in check #CrossBorderRail

• Post #3698285

  So tomorrow I am off on "holiday" (we'll see how relaxing it proves to be) And as ever, no flying Day 1 is Nuits-sous-Ravières - Skanderborg 🇩🇰 TODAY all the trains ran well enough to allow all connections to be reached. Will it be the same tomorrow? 😀 Posts will be sporadic, and tagged #CrossBorderRail

• Post #3671483

  Glad to see the Baltic states 🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹 are behaving like proper 🇪🇺 states when it comes to #CrossBorderRail ticketing... i.e. they're as dysfunctional as everyone else! Tomorrow: DB shows me 2 trains Tallinn - Riga Elron 🇪🇪: shows me both trains, tickets for both trains available Vivi 🇱🇻: shows me just the later train LTG 🇱🇹: shows me just the earlier train, sold out Well done everyone! 👏

• Post #3621128

  In the Kortrijk - Lille #CrossBorderRail train SNCB is generally good with on board information, *except* here Every time it’s lousy No announcements, screens off You get the impression they care less about this one than they do about their other trains

• Post #3621127

  SNCF is run by imbeciles, part 57855 It’s packed at Bercy But they put both departing trains from the same platform and won’t let anyone board until the toilet tanks are re-filled But the refilling van can’t get to the platform as the concourse is so packed 👏

• Post #3574599

  Oh deer. An animal strike makes my trip rather Silly If you can bear the puns, there is a serious point here! #CrossBorderRail #Ticketing #Taktfahrplan https://jonworth.eu/oh-deer-an-animal-strike-makes-my-trip-rather-silly/

• Post #3574355

  My TER hit a deer en route to Paris this morning So I missed my TGV to Lille But I’m now standing in the bar on the next Paris - Lille as every seat is sold out Because this is the timetable on a Friday between France’s 1st and 5th cities 🤷‍♂️

• Post #3573404

  Good morning!

• Post #3497766

  Moment of calm back in Ravières before DIY starts again