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Jul 9, 2022 26 tweets 17 min read Read on X
Welcome to #CrossBorderRail Day 23 - Bern (CH) to Villach (AT) twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
#CrossBorderRail Train 77
IC 815 (IC 8 line) 11:02 Bern - Zürich HB 11:58
Ave speed: 126 km/h
Operator: @railservice

Train type: Class 460 & IC2000 carriages
⚡️
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (step free)
📶: ❓(with app, strange system)
🍽: ✅
#CrossBorderRail Train 78
S7 12:11 Zürich HB - Rapperswil SG 12:52
Ave speed: 55 km/h
Operator: @railservice

Train type: Stadler KISS double deck EMU
⚡️
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (step free)
📶: ⛔️
🍽: ⛔️
#CrossBorderRail Train 79
IR 2023 13:03 Rapperswil SG - St Gallen 13:55
Ave speed: 68 km/h
Operator: @sudostbahn Voralpenexpress

Train type: Stadler Traverso
⚡️
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (step free)
📶: ⛔️
🍽: ⛔️ (there’s a vending machine)
Ok. It’s a vending machine. But what a vending machine and system! You can get excellent coffee, @sudostbahn branded beer and wine and… errr… polenta with mushrooms to cook at home!
The first class is extraordinary - super seats and massive windows. Second class also very good. Stadler & @sudostbahn - I like this *a lot*
It’s too early for beer. But a Voralpen Express coffee does just fine!
Sorry @sob_ch I cited the wrong Twitter handle earlier! Your train is still fantastic meanwhile 🙂
#CrossBorderRail Train 80
SBA 11251 14:09 St Gallen - St Margrethen SH 14:37
Ave speed: 59 km/h
Operator: Thurbo

Train type: Stadler GTW 2/8
⚡️
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (step free)
📶: ⛔️
🍽: ⛔️
#CrossBorderRail Train 81
S3 5769 15:00 Lustenau - St Margrethen SG 15:04
Ave speed: 41 km/h
Operator: @unsereOEBB

Train type: Talent EMU
⚡️
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (step free)
📶: ⛔️
🍽: ⛔️
#CrossBorderRail Train 82
S4 11455 15:07 St Margrethen SG - Buchs SG 15:47
Ave speed: 63 km/h
Operator: @sob_ch

Train type: Stadler Flirt EMU (older design)
⚡️
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (step free)
📶: ⛔️
🍽: ⛔️
A new @merseyrail EMU and a @railservice double deck EMJ parked up at Stadler’s plant at St Margrethen
#CrossBorderRail Train 83
RJX 169 15:54 Buchs SG - Wörgl Hbf 18:41
Ave speed: 84 km/h
Operator: @unsereOEBB

Train type: RailJet - @SiemensMobility Taurus locomotive & Viaggio carriages with control car
⚡️
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (with a lift)
📶: ✅
🍽: ✅
I’ve now crossed all of the borders for today!

It took me 15 mins to cycle from St Margrethen 🇨🇭 to Lustenau 🇦🇹 and 4 mins by train back. This is the rail bridge, and the road customs posts
I’m now travelling on my own again. Thanks for the good conversations in Bern and on the SBB & SOB trains @pdfguru @AufGleis13 @Felyxorez @AdamTywoniak @_wrzlbrnft_ @ChSieberGasser Philip Gasser and Till Burckhardt!
Vorarlbergbahn. #kurventweet
There’s a woman with a permanent scowl on her face reading an astrology magazine - and she’s occupying the only seat in this carriage with the nice window views approaching Landeck Zams. And she’s never looking up to enjoy this!
Wakeboard beside the line
Old meets new at Innsbruck. A @SiemensMobility @unsereoebb Vectron on the turntable
#CrossBorderRail Train 84
RE 1529 18:50 Wörgl Hbf - Schwarzach St Veit 20:48
Ave speed: 64 km/h
Operator: @unsereOEBB

Train type: Talent EMU (CityJet renovated version)
⚡️
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (step free)
📶: ✅ (first regional train with wifi for *days*!)
🍽: ⛔️
Ah 😎

I might be in Austria, but @db_bahn chaos can reach me here too!

My planned train later Schwarzach St Veit - Villach delayed at least 90 mins due to chaos in Germany

Luckily @unsereOEBB is putting on a 🚌 at Schwarzach! 💪
This is @unsereOEBB 😍
And no, the Birdy 🚲 cannot save me today!
Riverside
Waiting for a rail replacement bus at Schwarzach St Veit
Rail replacement bus
Replacing late running train EC 117 Schwarzach St Veit - Villach that’s currently 2 hours late
Ave speed: ?? km/h
Operator: organised by @unsereOEBB

Bus type: a reasonable modern Mercedes
⛽️
🚲: ✅ (in the hold)
🦽: ⛔️
📶: ⛔️
🍽: ⛔️

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It was a bit of a #fail at the station. I needed a ticket to Erquelinnes, the first station in Belgium. But prior to today trains from Maubeuge didn’t stop there!

Ticket machine ⛔️
Ask at the ticket office. “Le train ne s’arrête pas à Erquelinnes!” I politely told the SNCF employee that yes, it did stop at Erquelinnes. I explained the situation to the SNCB train manager and he laughed, confirmed it did stop there, and I bought the ticket online!
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Signal failure south of Fulda. Looks like I could miss the event in Mons I’m organising 😭
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ICE 612 Frankfurt Flughafen to Köln Messe/Deutz.

This is why accurate live running data in apps matters. Were this not running 10 min late I’d not have caught it… but live data allowed me to plan a connection that’d otherwise not work
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Already on the 2nd train of the day: TGV Montbard - Paris. All being well I’ll be in Denmark tonight… but that feels a long way off just now! #EGPCongress #crossborderrail
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Franco-German train service. Very French prices! And no, it’s too early (and expensive) for #beerontrains 😉
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Tomorrow hundreds of delegates - myself included (from 🇫🇷) - will start their trip to @europeangreens congress in København

Most of us will go by 🚆
Many trips will be disrupted as railways are a mess

But there’s nothing about transport on the programme europeangreens.eu/congress2022/p…
I don’t blame @europeangreens for this, short term. They only have on their programme what member parties want.

But there isn’t the fierce debate or intellectual exchange in the Green movement about transport as there is about other issues.
Given CO2 emissions in transport are still rising (unlike in other sectors) that ought to be a matter for urgent attention from Greens.

And hell, the event is in København, a paradise for 🚲. There’d be opportunities to use that as a hook.
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Talking #9euroTicket at #PassengerFest - slightly frustrating that it’s DB talking about it. Other views are available 😉
“Did behaviour change in the way the government intended?” asks the moderator. Ha. Did the government even *know* what its intention was?
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😭 Germany builds a high speed line through Baden-Württemberg - to speed up Stuttgart-München services

It’s been in planning for *years*

But SNCF’s TGVs used for Paris-Stuttgart-München services haven’t been updated to be compatible with the new line!

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Jeez. It could take until 2025 until TGVs are approved for the line.

And the whole effing point of Stuttgart21 - of which this line is a part - was to create a Paris-München high speed corridor!

Really, how can everyone mess up *so badly*?
And to those going “yeah but there are few TGVs anyway” true, but so it goes on and on. International services are the lowest priority - even when *they were the stated rationale for building the line*
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