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Jul 10, 2022 21 tweets 12 min read Read on X
Welcome to #CrossBorderRail day 24 - Villach (AT) to Ljubljana (SI) via Gorizia (IT) twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
#CrossBorderRail Train 85
REX 1821 09:49 Villach West - Tarvisio Boscoverde 10:15
Ave speed: 62 km/h
Operator: @unsereOEBB Micotra service

Train type: Class 1144 locomotive & carriages
⚡️
🚲: ✅ (staff help lift bikes, lots of space - v good!)
🦽: ⛔️
📶: ⛔️
🍽: ⛔️
Rail replacement bus
10:30 Udine - Carnia 11:45
Ave speed: ?? km/h
Operator: Trenitalia organised

Bus type: a reasonable modern MAN
⛽️
🚲: ✅ (in a huge trailer)
🦽: ⛔️
📶: ⛔️
🍽: ⛔️
Nice views from the bus! Better than from the train (which mostly runs in a tunnel here)
#CrossBorderRail Train 76
RE 17361 12:30 Carnia - Gorizia Centrale 13:38
Ave speed: 63 km/h
Operator: Trenitalia

Train type: CAF ETR 564 EMU
⚡️
🚲: ✅ (lots of space!)
🦽: ✅ (step free of platform allows)
📶: ⛔️
🍽: ⛔️
Also the earlier rail replacement bus service means I have just 70 mins in Gorizia 🇮🇹 / Nova Gorica 🇸🇮. Just enough time to document everything 🙂
At first I though “ah cool you can charge electric bikes here”. On closer inspection these metal bars prevent you putting a plug in, and these are just the plugs from when there used to be seats here 🤦‍♂️
I’ve now travelled on so many different modern EMUs on this trip I’m going to attempt a full and proper comparison, in a separate thread. This CAF ETR 564 is pretty bland inside but is one of the better ones I think.
Bit of back cab view à la @EurostarJustinp
Roadsign
On the border
The track to the right is the #CrossBorderRail line to Gorizia. It currently has no passenger trains…
And I’ve got some #CrossBorderRail #fensterauf Tweeting will resume later 😊
I think we’ve just stopped in someone’s back garden
#CrossBorderRail Train 87
RE 4223 14:44 Nova Gorica - Sežana 15:50
Ave speed: 37 km/h
Operator: SŽ

Train type: SŽ 813/814 DMU (Fiat design)
⛽️
🚲: ✅ (steep steps but loads of space!)
🦽: ⛔️
📶: ⛔️
🍽: ⛔️
#CrossBorderRail Train 88
RE 2607 15:53 Sežana - Divača 16:02
Ave speed: 64 km/h
Operator: SŽ

Train type: Stadler EMU (similar to SOB Traverso)
⚡️
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (step free if platform allows)
📶: ✅
🍽: ⛔️
#CrossBorderRail Train 89
IC 502 16:05 Divača - Ljubljana 17:40
Ave speed: 65 km/h
Operator: SŽ

Train type: Stadler EMU (similar to SOB Traverso) - 2x 4 carriages
⚡️
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (step free if platform allows)
📶: ✅
🍽: ⛔️
Eeek. Modern air conditioned train full of weekend trippers from Koper bad cave goers from Postojna and the air is *really bad*. Air con is freezing cold, but must be circulating air not drawing new air in.
Chaos at Rakek as a dozen cyclists try to board from a narrow platform and there’s not enough space inside either…
Today - like earlier in the week in Portugal and Spain - is a demonstration of what goes wrong when railways don’t provide clear information. If people don’t know where to board they clump together, and the train’s departure is then delayed.
No rail line in Slovenia is boring. Villages, farms, hills, mountains, rivers… you have them all. Approaching Ljubljana on the main line from Divača.

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This morning I’m one of the first new regional trains Maubeuge 🇫🇷 - Charleroi Central 🇧🇪 #CrossBorderRail
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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
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 😉
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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?
Oh and the DB dude is saying it was too cheap. As he would. Poorer citizens would say otherwise… zeit.de/mobilitaet/202…
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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!

swr.de/swraktuell/bad…
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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