Thread by @jonworth

Welcome to #CrossBorderRail DE-PL extra day 1 - Berlin to Kostryzn and Zielona Gora twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Here’s today’s route map

#CrossBorderRail Train 152
RB 26 (5159) 09:33 Berlin Ostkreuz - Küstrin Kietz 10:48
Ave speed: 64 km/h
Operator: Niederbarniner Eisenbahn (NEB) - Captrain group

Train type: PESA Link
⛽️
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (step free but platform too high at Ostkreuz)
📶: ⛔️
🍽: ⛔️

Leaving the Plattenbau behind

A few remarks on this PESA Link DMU. It’s very similar in layout to a Siemens Desiro Classic

Its interior design is less clever - esp luggage racks are smaller and less well designed. However the ride quality is smoother, the gear changes from the mechanical transmission better

Sachsen 1, Berlin-Brandenburg 0

#9euroticket works to the first stations in Czechia across the border from Sachsen. Between Berlin-Brandenburg and Poland you have to buy an extra ticket - €2,10

How do I choose?! 😜

Polenmarkt Küstrin or Küstriner Polenmarkt?

Pull down seats in door vestibule areas are a bad idea, esp on regional trains. The train is empty now - there are plenty of seats in regular seating areas - but two lazy passengers are still making the entry and exit of others complicated.

Bridges over the Oder

Küstrin 🇩🇪 to the left
Kostryzn 🇵🇱 to the right

Road bridge in the foreground, construction of the new rail bridge behind

#CrossBorderRail

Have you expanded that book writing business to hotels and tobacco @BastonBorders 😜 (it’s actually Bastion. But it’s close enough!)

Kostrzyn station. Charming brick building, well renovated. Tracks on two levels (lower level north-south, upper level east-west)

#CrossBorderRail Train 153
TLK 82102 13:34 Kostrzyn - Zielona Gora 14:39
Ave speed: 95 km/h
Operator: PKP Intercity

Train type: EU07 locomotive & 6 elderly carriages inc. 5 #fensterauf
⚡️
🚲: ✅ (but narrow doors)
🦽: ⛔️
📶: ⛔️
🍽: ⛔️

#CrossBorderRail Train 153
TLK 82102 13:34 Kostrzyn - Zielona Gora 14:39
Ave speed: 95 km/h
Operator: PKP Intercity

Train type: EU07 locomotive & 6 elderly carriages inc. 5 #fensterauf
⚡️
🚲: ✅ (but narrow doors)
🦽: ⛔️
📶: ⛔️
🍽: ⛔️

Ouch. Just crossed the Graz/Budapest/Wroclaw train at Rzepin. It’s running 6 hours late today! 😳 (times for Frankfurt (Oder) shown)

Zielona Gora

And off go today’s postcards to @AdinaValean and 1 of the supporters of my project

#CrossBorderRail Train 154
RB 77237 / RB 5618 16:50 Zielona Góra Główna - Guben 18:13
Ave speed: 47 km/h
Operator: Polregio for Lubuskie

Train type: Pesa Link DMU
⛽️
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (step free if platform allows)
📶: ⛔️
🍽: ⛔️

Passing a train transporting military trailers at Wężyska - the military transport was heading west. Signs on equipment elsewhere on board (not shown in this video) were in English.

Earlier in the convoy

Damn Zielona Góra Główna - Guben is a slow train. I get why this line was out of action for passenger trains a long time. The line is straight and on flat terrain - increasing the speed from the current 40-50km/h to 100-120km/h would not be hard! #CrossBorderRail

The Guben - Zielona Góra Główna train departs Guben, as the drone flies above the Neiße

Guben. It’s seen better days

And here’s the kiosk from the postcards ;-)

#CrossBorderRail Train 155
RB 11 (18320) 19:44 Guben - Frankfurt (Oder) 20:26
Ave speed: 69 km/h
Operator: @db_bahn

Train type: Bombardier Talent 2 EMU
⚡️
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (step free - level-ish boarding, slopes inside)
📶: ⛔️
🍽: ⛔️

Guben station

#CrossBorderRail Train 156
RE 1 (3192) 20:34 Frankfurt (Oder) - Berlin Ostkreuz 21:22
Ave speed: 98 km/h
Operator: @db_bahn

Train type: @siemensmobility Taurus & Bombardier double deck carriages
⚡️
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (step free - level-ish boarding, slopes inside)
📶: ⛔️
🍽: ⛔️

Golden hour

This is the Neiße rail bridge Guben 🇩🇪 (to the left) to Gubin 🇵🇱

It was interesting to go here today, but I’m asking myself what the #CrossBorderRail potential is here? The line, Polish side, is such low speed… This is more a Polish project than an international one