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6 Aug, 4 tweets, 3 min read
A question for the rail nerds @vorortanleiter @Lenny_du_Nord @TrainTracksEU... and sorry, it's about Poland, the country whose rail systems I never understand

I am vaguely planning a trip to Kraków, end of September

DB gives me this - can book a ticket for a seat, not for a bed
International Bahn gives me this, if I click "Preis ermitteln", and ÖBB can't give me a price *either*
If I then go day by day until ÖBB *can* give me a price for the EuroNight, the first that works is... 10 September

Which is 5 weeks from now

A pretty odd time horizon if ever I saw one!
What's going on here? PKP is just opening up bookings for that train in an ad-hoc fashion, and - at some point - it might just appear as bookable?

Any tips here would be very welcome!

#EUYearOfRail eh!

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6 Aug
Right

Armed with my EU Digital COVID Pass, I am going on holiday on 7 August and will not be on Twitter

So here is a *complete* explainer thread about COVID passes and QR codes for travel, especially for those travelling from 🇬🇧 to 🇪🇺🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮, before I go!

🧵
🇪🇺 Digital COVID Pass scheme (that works in 🇪🇺🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮) is a QR code based system to demonstrate your vaccination status

The code looks like this and - importantly - it does not matter HOW you show it. On paper, on a phone, laser etched into wood - it's your call!
For those 💉💉 in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 and Northern Ireland there is a similar system (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 has not been launched yet, will be similar)

A QR code demonstrates your vaccination status - example below

But 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 and Northern Ireland, and 🇪🇺 systems are not fully compatible

But there ARE workarounds
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6 Aug
OK, we now have clarity about the issues with NHS 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 QR codes again (incorrectly) showing INVALID ❌ in 🇫🇷 TAC Verif app this morning

On iOS upgrading TAC Verif to 1.7.0 (latest version) fixed it - showed VALID ✅ again

On 🤖 v 1.6.2 (latest version) it worked all along
But there *is* a separate issue with TAC Verif on 🤖... that's connected to language!

@cormacflynn sent me - INVALID codes being shown as VALID if the Android phone language is set to English! 🤯

More detail about the issue: broken-by-design.fr/posts/tacv-vul…
I've now checked this with @Etienne_Sheff and we can confirm that *even if* the phone language is not set to English, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 NHS QR codes *still* show as VALID - as they should

In other words: the problem @X_Cli_Public identifies DOES NOT impact the 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 NHS QR code verification!
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4 Aug
OK, so the challenge is Köln - Canet de Mar by train

Here's how to do it - a 🧵

(sorry Rüdiger - alles ist auf englisch - hoffentlich OK, ist meine Muttersprache, und ich erreiche mehr Leute!)
First, let's start at the end.

Where is Canet de Mar?

It's north along the coast from Barcelona on the Rodalies R1 commuter line (bottom right) Image
Integration of suburban rail into Spanish timetables is awful, but this site has the timetables for the Rodalies lines in the Barcelona area
rodalies.gencat.cat/en/horaris/

Latest departure: 22:54, arrives Canet de Mar at 23:56
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4 Aug
After discussions with @ruthpadel and @stevegreen39 I've run the rule over the COVID apps / vaccine certification situation for those vaccinated in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 and Northern Ireland travelling to 🇮🇹

Quick 🧵
Italian residents can prove their vaccination status using the IO app

iOS apps.apple.com/it/app/io/id15…
🤖 play.google.com/store/apps/det…

But you need a SPID or CIE number to use it, and non-residents do not have that... Image
What about Italy's verifier app - that's the app a restaurant or museum will use to let you enter (or not) from 9 August

That's VerificaC19

iOS apps.apple.com/us/app/verific…
🤖 play.google.com/store/apps/det…
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2 Aug
Yay!

Let's all 🎉 that we've spent €140m renovating the Karawanken tunnel 🇦🇹 🛤 🇸🇮...

... but then run just 5 passenger trains through it each way each day 🤷‍♂️ (and 1 of those is seasonal)

railwaygazette.com/infrastructure…
Villach - Rosenbach on the Austrian side has a Taktfahrplan (trains pretty much every hour)
It's a little messier on the Slovenian side, but there's pretty much a train every hour Jesenice-Ljubljana as well
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28 Jul
🤬

As if this was not all messed up already, 🇩🇪 Corona-Warn-App v 2.6.1 has messed this up even more

For those vaccinated in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 and Northern Ireland travelling to 🇩🇪 read 🧵

If going anywhere else, follow the original thread 👇
This comes thanks to a discussion with @legumjus
@i_x_s, and a tweet from @hodadr

The prerequisites: letter from NHS 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 or Northern Ireland confirming vaccination status, with QR code on it, and Corona-Warn-App latest version (2.6.1 on iOS)
Up until today's new Corona-Warn-App update, if you imported a NHS QR code into the app it just displayed it, and did not do any validation

For that you needed the *separate* CovPassCheck App (which is only in 🇩🇪 app stores - bit of a pain, but I diverge)
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