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elba013

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Fakten und Frechheiten über die Welt, die Bahn und den ganzen Rest. Something like trainrider's guide to the universe and other places.
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jon, to random
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DB ICE 731 Hamburg - Köln

A slowish route because all the infra is old. And it’s a ICE 1 from the 1980s, renovated more than a decade ago

But the ambience on board, the comfort of the seats, are still excellent. It’s like someone actually thought “what would passengers actually appreciate in a train interior?”

It doesn’t feel like packing as many people in as possible was the priority. And that’s so nice 😊

elba013,
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@jon I like the route via Recklinghausen somewhat more than the one via Dortmund. Less stops and avoiding Dortmund sometimes helps.

elba013,
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@jon Still single track north of Lünen.

elba013,
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@jon The argument pro Dortmund are ICE via Wuppertal and avoiding the Duisburg-Düsseldorf-Köln route. You can toss a coin what's better.

jon, to random
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Totally logical. Not.

My trip Nuits-sous-Ravières to Berlin Südkreuz on Monday is all e-tickets except Strasbourg to Kehl, the section. Just collected the paper ticket at Lyon while passing here.

And yeah, I have a ticket split in Kehl because that’s the only way to get the best price for this connection. Which is also totally logical. Not.

elba013,
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@jon https://mastodon.social/

vicgrinberg, (edited ) to SciComm
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Wie viel Wissenschaft steckt in der Netflix-SciFi-Serie "3 Body Problem"? Darüber habe ich gestern Abend drei Stunden lange mit Dr. Lisa Ringena von IsoQuant Heidelberg & @nawik und Cedric Engels aka Doktor Whatson bei ARTE #Couchwissen gesprochen.

Nachzusehen gibt es die ganze live Show hier: ▶️ https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2136292075

Wem das zu lang ist - in ein paar Wochen gibt es eine halbe Stunde Best Of auf dem #ARTE Youtube Kanal!

#scicomm #wisskomm #astrodon #3BodyProblem #scifi

elba013,
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@vicgrinberg @nawik Ich hatte mal angefangen Liu Cixin zu lesen. Fand ich aber nur teilweise gut. Die politisch/historischen Teile besser als den SciFi-Teil.

ErikUden, to random German
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Stellt euch vor Deutschland hätte nie Russland sanktioniert und jetzt ruft ein Journalist dazu auf man sollte Produkte welche direkt die russische Wirtschaft und somit den russischen Krieg stärken boykottieren.

Ist das ein Grund aus dem ÖRR geworfen zu werden? Ist das antirussischer Rassismus? Nein...

elba013,
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@ErikUden
(1/x) Die Hamas ist für mich unzweifelhaft eine schreckliche Terrororganisation. Aber die Siedlungspolitik der israelischen Regierung ist ebenso völkerrechtswidrig wie der Versuch Russlands, die Ukraine einzuverleiben. Deswegen die israelische Regierung oder Netanjahu faschistisch zu nennen, ist sicher hart und deplatziert, aber ich halte es im Spektrum der Meinungsfreiheit grundsätzlich für zulässig.

elba013,
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@ErikUden
(2/x) Dass jemand das macht, der seine Reichweite aufgrund eines Medienberufes bezieht - sei es privat oder ÖRR - sollte nicht geduldet werden.
Ich erwarte gerade von Journalisten, auch mit arabischem Background, dass sie die besondere (u. begründete) Empfindlichkeit in Deutschland verstehen.
Ich erwarte auch, dass Kritik an Israel (auch unberechtigte) nicht automatisch als Antisemitismus gelabelt wird.

elba013,
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@ErikUden
(3/x)
Man muss solche Diskussionen auch in Deutschland führen können. Und verbales Hochrüsten macht das Diskutieren schwierig.

Erstveröffentlichung dieser Text- und Gedankenschnipsel war auf Twitter als Antwort auf den Link zu https://www.juedische-allgemeine.de/kultur/druck-wirkt/

jon, to random
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Departing Montbard for Paris this morning. Then onwards to Bruxelles. Not a regular thread today - I’m going to - I’ll post using that tag

elba013,
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@jon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPSpxgv8uTM

jon, to random
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Let me tell you a story about two railways in two large European countries

In one, they’ve just completed the delivery of the biggest new fleet of high speed trains ever, and high speed trains run hourly on pretty much every line. Off peak tickets are cheap, and if you pay for a flexible ticket you can take any train.

In this country regional trains run hourly, are cheap to take (there’s a cheap national monthly pass) and passenger numbers are steadily rising.

elba013,
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@jon Is there in France a political discussion about SNCF? In Germany there are always such discussions about DB. Mainly infrastructure, but often closely linked to long-distance service.

elba013,
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@jon I am just writing on an article about the heavy load of our main lines and what this means for infrastructure (which is often responsible for delays).
More or less a "will Generalsanierung help?".

elba013,
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@partim @jon Yes - “Why haven’t you done that twenty years ago?” is a central question. My fear is, that we will still ask it in twenty years.

elba013,
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@jon @partim Yes, but it gives you no schedule. The schedule is set by the available money. So more by Lindner than by Wissing.

elba013,
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@partim @jnbhlr @jon Yes, but it is Wissing. He talks about Infrastrukturfonds, which includes road construction. Organizations like Allianz pro Schiene demand a Schienenfonds, because there is not only a gap in rail financing between Germany and CH or AT, but also between rail financing and road financing.

elba013,
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@partim @jnbhlr @jon Beside “Why haven’t you done that twenty years ago?” the second central sentence seems me to be "It comes to late". The "Repriorisierung" DB is talking about means "everything later". And even the money for the later phases of Generalsanierung is not clear.
Beginning now with a new form of financing - when will effects take place?

elba013,
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@partim @jnbhlr @jon Yes, but it also depends on how politics trusts in DB. Dependable means also independent from shortterm political decisions. Compared to SNCF DB does the right things. But politicans see also headlines like https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/wirtschaft/deutsche-bahn-bilanz-pressekonferenz-rote-zahlen-100.html or https://www.merkur.de/wirtschaft/katastrophale-zahlen-deutsche-bahn-jahresbilanz-2023-zr-92904677.html
And what if the fonds is to small? (like nearly every funding in the past)

AndreasSebayang, to Aviation
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Sind Fast Lanes Korruption? Spannend zu lesendes Stück. Ich finde durchaus nachvollziehbare Argumentation. #luftfahrt #aviation #avgeek https://www.lto.de/recht/hintergruende/h/korruption-fast-lane-flughafen-airport-airline-passagier-k/

elba013,
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@AndreasSebayang Was ein Glück, dass LH und DB Fernverkehr privatisiert sind. Das würde ja sonst alle Statusprogramme kippen.

elba013,
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@partim @AndreasSebayang Der Gleichheitsgrundsatz im GG sollte sich m.E. auf alle Tätigkeiten staatlicher Einrichtungen beziehen.

jon, to random
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In fact thinking more widely here, I reckon there is a campaign idea for @elba013 @AndiBarth and Pro Bahn Bayern in this

Get everyone to submit their pictures of broken rail infra in Bayern, and make an alternative calendar. Do it with a print on demand company, and it would even be cost neutral…
https://gruene.social/@jon/112167746564255169

elba013,
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@jon @AndiBarth BEG is doing this every year.

jon, to random
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And in other laughing rather darkly railway stuff today...

Bayerische Eisenbahngesellschaft (BEG) is looking for photos for its 2025 calendar https://bahnland-bayern.de/de/infomaterial/wandkalender/teilnahme

I have plenty

Diesel trains on lines that should be electrified
A really poor and slow (and diesel) service Praha-München
A signal box more than 100 years old between München and Mühldorf
Ancient departure signs at Simbach

And that's just what I could find right away!

Praha - München “express” at Domazlice
Departure signs at Simbach
Ancient signal box at Hörlkofen

elba013,
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@jon I think everybody I know who was in Simbach has photos of the departure signs. 😉

jon, to random
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New Analysis on my blog

“Yield management and compulsory reservation – how much of each should we tolerate in railways?”

Where does a price nudge from railways cross over into capacity restriction as a means to maximise profit? And why- generally - DB gets this right, and SNCF does not

https://jonworth.eu/yield-management-and-compulsory-reservation-how-much-of-each-should-we-tolerate-in-railways/

elba013,
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@jon I can live with the yield management as DB is doing.

But I think, DB is not good in steering the occupation of trains (and informing its passengers about it).
The reasons are, on the one hand, the mixed system (e.g. reduced flex price with BC50 or even BC100), on the other hand, too many last minute changes (like me sitting on a shortened ICE this Tuesday) and delays, so that people take other trains than booked.

elba013,
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@jon A overall question seems to me: should there yield management without competiton?
The german fiction is, that Fernverkehr is not regulated by the government. This would be ok, if there were some really competition. Without, maybe the swiss system would also be ok. Or a upper limit for flex price set by an government agency (something like BAV in CH).

Zugschlus, to random
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zût. Jetzt haben sie die Abfahrt des RE 73 um 12:10 zwei Sekunden bevor ich für das "findet den Fehler" Foto ausgelöst habe weggenommen.

Fahren können sie das dennoch nicht, sie werden den RE nicht für die S-Bahn wegfahren.

elba013,
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@Zugschlus Ihr habt alle zuviel Zeit. Wenn ich sämtlichen Unsinn aus DB-Infomedien poste, tue ich nichts anderes mehr. (Bin gestern von Kiel nach Köln mit interessanten Erlebnissen.)

jon, to random
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Right, is BACK tomorrow 🎉

The first extra day for 2024

Berlin - Hagenwerder - Zittau - Nové Město pod Smrkem - Gryfów Śląski - Görlitz - Berlin

Crossing the borders
Pobiedna 🇵🇱 - Jindřichovice pod Smrkem 🇨🇿
and
Former 750mm Schmalspurbahn Zittau-Hermsdorf - Zittau 🇩🇪 - Sienawka 🇵🇱

There’ll be the typical social media - videos to start and end the day, live blog, photos, the drone will be in action, I will be cycling across the border at Podiedna too

elba013,
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@jon What's the reason for the bus Hagenwerder - Zittau? Is there construction?
(I used it once for a visit of the monastry Marienthal and border crossing in Ostritz.)

jon, to random
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Agh, this DB not getting its timetables sorted for building works is really grating now

We’ve known for a while that there are enduring problems between Kassel and Göttingen https://www.deutschebahn.com/de/presse/presse-regional/pr-hamburg-de/aktuell/presseinformationen-regional/Arbeiten-im-Rauhebergtunnel-zwischen-Goettingen-und-Kassel-Fernverkehrszuege-fahren-ab-Maerz-nach-neuem-Konzept-12700692#

So why can this not be reflected in travel planners?

"There might be a delay of 120 minutes" is not very helpful. Tell me how to go another way instead! In previous years DB was better at this

elba013,
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@jon On the diversion is a discussion on DSO: https://www.drehscheibe-online.de/foren/read.php?002,10709584,10710003#msg-10710003

Also the CEO of Infrago makes a statement: https://www.drehscheibe-online.de/foren/read.php?002,10709584,10711557#msg-10711557

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