And for the non-rail people among my followers: there are going to be a lot of railway posts from me (more than usual - really!) - so maybe you mute the tag 🙂
Op zaterdag 1 juni houdt reizigersvereniging Rover een gratis themamiddag in Amersfoort over internationaal treinreizen. Er zijn presentaties, o.a. van @jon en Elmer van Buuren. Ook ga je in gesprek met andere reizigers over je eigen ervaring met internationaal treinreizen.
@smveerman Helaas ben ik er niet persoonlijk bij - ik geef de presentatie via video. Ik ben die dag in Riga voor #CrossBorderRail. Maar er zal veel te bespreken zijn!
Ticketing for one of y the most over-hyped #CrossBorderRail services is a mess - you can’t use a Dutch OV-Chipkaart on the Belgian part of the route, and Belgian passes can’t get you beyond Visé
Damn I hate the #CrossBorderRail non-collaboration between HŽPP and SŽ
Both now have online ticketing
But only to the last station in their respective territories
So neither of them can sell Ilirkska Bistrica - Šapjane (line Pivka-Rijeka) or Rakitovec - Buzet (line Divača-Pula) - in both cases just a few km at the border 😡
Simple solution: include the first station in the neighbouring country in the national ticketing system…
Ah ha! Željeznice FBiH has online booking (I thought)
Do it and pay…
... and then find you have to go to the ticket office in Sarajevo to collect a paper ticket! 🙂
And there was I thinking I could avoid a queue. Well, if there are even enough people wanting the once a day train to Maglaj, which according to Vagonweb runs with only 2 ancient carriages
Guten Morgen aus Liberec zu Tag 4 von #AllTheLinesSemmering. 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. 🇵🇱 #CrossBorderRail
(And in the coming few weeks as my next big #CrossBorderRail trip starts I’ll be highlighting a bunch of the ace railway people here on Mastodon - it’s a super and eccentric and nerdy community that I appreciate a lot)
Which harbour is already well connected to the railway system and which should get better rail services?
What trips across Europe would you do by "trainship", and what hurdles are preventing you doing that?
Karlovy Vary ist auch bei Regen ganz nett, aber der Bahnhof ist höher gelegen als die Innenstadt. Es gibt aber noch einen schicken "unteren" Bahnhof im Ostblock-Stil und just von dort fährt mein "RegioShark" nach Johanngeorgenstadt ab. 🇨🇿🇩🇪 #AllTheLinesSemmering#CrossBorderRail
23 pages of manure (literally, sometimes. I hate manure) that is the extreme-right Dutch Agreement can contain interesting stuff nevertheless. For #crossborderrail there's two sentences (both on page 9):
'In the border regions, good rail connections with the neighboring country are essential.'
´There will be a proposal for cross-border rail transport, including the connection of five train stations to international HSL lines (e.g. Hengelo, Venlo, Heerlen, Groningen and Zwolle).' (1/3).
The devil is in the details - which are of course still buried deep in said manure and may never surface. The first point does point towards some pressure (NSC probably) towards improving #crossborderrail in Twente and Brabant. More pressure for electrifying Enschede-Gronau (real problem in .de though)? Better connectivity in Groningen? Hammont-Weert finally? (2/3)..
I had planned to take the direct train Antwerp - Courtrai - Lille on Friday, but somehow the train Mouscron - Lille doesn't show up anymore in the Hafas planners (it does on oui.sncf!). Does anyone know if there are engineering works?
OK, so when I go to the SNCF Grandes Lignes ticket office shortly at Paris Nord and ask why I cannot buy a ticket to Berlin any more online, and can they help me, what are they going to tell me why it can't be done?
(Answer 4 is the correct answer - but will I get that? Answer 1 is what I received Monday in Strasbourg, Answer 2 is what I got in response to another ticketing data issue in Breil sur Roya last week)