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
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!
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)
🦽: ⛔️
📶: ⛔️
🍽: ⛔️
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
This morning I’m one of the first new regional trains Maubeuge 🇫🇷 - Charleroi Central 🇧🇪 #CrossBorderRail
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!
Delays in my favour. Maybe? S-Bahn to FFM Flughafen. Get a late running ICE to Köln Messe/Deutz there. Then try to blag my way onto a Thalys Köln Hbf to Bruxelles? It’s a long shot but it might work…
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
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
Across Paris RER Gare de Lyon to Gare du Nord, walk to Gare de l’Est (faster than changing into a Métro to Est) and it’s onto the TGV to Mannheim. So far so good, but I banked on this bit working 🙂 #EGPCongress#CrossBorderRail
Franco-German train service. Very French prices! And no, it’s too early (and expensive) for #beerontrains 😉
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*