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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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A railway people

@ummels who’s posting pictures from great routes in Czechia

@wrzlbrnft who’s posting pictures of odd lines from Hungary

@lewd who’s great and funny on all things railways, esp France-Germany

@maartje for IT and rail topics

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(And in the coming few weeks as my next big 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)

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Deutsche Bahn is introducing transparent noise protection walls

https://www.deutschebahn.com/de/presse/pressestart_zentrales_uebersicht/Mehr-Durchblick-weniger-Laerm-DB-entwickelt-innovative-transparente-Schallschutzwaende-12861336?trk=feed_main-feed-card_feed-article-content

But what’s missing?

Graffiti

It covers every sound protection wall everywhere in Germany. Perhaps these transparent walls are a little easier to clean? We can hope..?

jon,
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@apicultor Right. But how can you design a sound wall without reference to this?

ehrba, to random German
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While @jon is doing #CrossBorderRail, we should definitely have something like #CrossWaterRail!

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?

jon,
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@ehrba this is MEP Ciaran Cuffe's topic @Ciarancuffe

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Can you confirm what the employee at :pride_sncf: SNCF guichet just told me, @gregory or @jon ? SNCF vending machines seemingly can no longer sell InterRail reservations for TGV and Intercités. Guichet still can. Though they said this will not be permanently buy only during the migration period to another booking system.

Anyway, despite only 15 minutes in Strasbourg and the wasted time at the vending machine they could sell me my reservation in time at the counter.

jon,
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@lewd @gregory That's correct, these sales suspended at machines. I now just use Rail Europe for this, online.

jon,
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@lewd @gregory with what error? I have got it to work fine the 3 or 4 times I tried…

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Only Murks-Things: Tickets für die heimische Staatsbahn RENFE in Spanien kann man im DB Navigator nicht verkaufen. Okay. Immerhin findet man die Fahrten…

Und bei anderen Staatsbahn auf der Strecke, die aus Italien kommt und dort gewissermaßen “wildert” verweist man auf international-bahn.de, merkt dann aber, dass es doch nicht klappt mit dem Ticketverkauf.

Und dann gibt man noch den schlauen Ratschlag mit: Kauf doch Interrail. 😄 (1/2)

jon,
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@mahrko It's Spain. Of course it's an effing mess. Sorry!

jon, to random
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Really, this stopping selling loads of international tickets thing is all the SNCF problems in one

It’s international, and they think national

They’re incompetent as to how to handle legacy IT systems that are outdated

They’re inflexible in that they can’t make contingency plans

And finally they’re malevolent, because staff are then told to blame everyone else, instead of SNCF - and the mess was 💯 SNCF’s fault

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@gravitystorm of course! Around 10% it's rumoured. But whether they can then really assess the impact I have no idea - their whole IT infra is such a steaming stinking mess!

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    • unless you want to travel internationally because we won’t sell you those tickets any more
jon,
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@takua oh hell, that crosses two of the most complex countries. I hope you found a way in the end!

jon,
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@takua Right. Totally. German journalists often ask me “But surely Germany's digitalisation of rail is lacking!" and then response is “Have you seen the situation elsewhere?”

jon, to random
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All right. Now we have the answer.

Austerlitz

Me: Why can I not book a ticket for Berlin on SNCF Connect?

SNCF employee: It’s not possible

Me: But why?

SNCF: “C’est la faute de l’Europe!” (It’s Europe’s fault)

Me: But why can DB sell me a SNCF ticket? SBB a Trenitalia ticket? The only one stopping is SNCF.

SNCF: You have to buy it on the site of DB then or Trainline

(My jaw dropped at that!)

Me: It’s not because SNCF is closing Résarail?

SNCF: It’s because of international agreements!

jon,
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@HauntedOwlbear Not quite, although close. This was all done through a system called Résarail that’s being closed down on 23 May. The new system isn’t yet built and there’s talk it might be ready in 2025…

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@HauntedOwlbear Yep. But if that’s still the plan I don’t know.

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Auf geht's! 🇨🇿 #AllTheLinesSemmering (@ ICE 78 ➜ Karlsruhe Hbf) #NowTräwelling https://traewelling.de/status/2621943

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@ummels so that’s Erzgebirgischer Semmering. Then there’s the real Semmering. Have you listed what the others are?

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@ummels Ja. Normalerweise.

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@ummels ah ha. Nur auf deutsch! 🙂

jon,
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@ummels you hiking part of this one? https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahnstrecke_Bautzen%E2%80%93Bad_Schandau?wprov=sfti1#

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@Schleifleistenbruch @ummels all right, we need to edit Wikipedia too 🙂

jon,
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@ummels so you’re cheating! #SomeLinesSemmering 🙂

jon,
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@Schleifleistenbruch @ummels how do we define if it ought to be called Semmering? Old Bergbahn with steep ramps and stone viaducts? Or is there something more specific?

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@geeeero @Schleifleistenbruch @ummels there must be something relating to the borders of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the definition. That’d eliminate the Schwarzwaldbahn…

jon, to random
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Does passenger behaviour on platforms vary between countries I wonder?

The TER Nuits-sous-Ravières - Paris Bercy is peculiar

At all interim stations the platform entrances are at the back of the train. But at Bercy the exit is at the front

I walk to the front at Nuits so I’m near the exit at Paris, but pretty much no others do, despite SNCF Connect indicating it’s a long train

I’m pretty sure in UK or Germany more would do as I do

jon,
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@corentin Why don't commuters from Sens do the same then?

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23 pages of manure (literally, sometimes. I hate manure) that is the extreme-right Dutch Agreement can contain interesting stuff nevertheless. For there's two sentences (both on page 9):

  1. 'In the border regions, good rail connections with the neighboring country are essential.'
  2. ´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).
jon,
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@FyraFlop34 @rrustema @patrick there’s also German planning law - the fear was a tunnel would have taken (even) longer.

jon, to random
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Not #CrossBorderRail today, but a little trip La Ciotat - Marseille - Arles then back along the ligne de la Côte Bleue https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligne_de_Miramas_%C3%A0_l'Estaque?wprov=sfti1# €25 for 2 people for all TER trains for a day in Bouches-du-Rhône is pretty good

A TGV passes La Ciotat while awaiting the first TER here

jon,
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@bovine3dom I did it. But never got checked, so can’t confirm what is meant to be the rule!

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