Thread by @jonworth

Welcome to #CrossBorderRail Day 27 - Berlin - Praha - Wien twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

The Spree has a silky quality this morning

Here’s today’s route map

#CrossBorderRail Train 100
EC 171 Berliner 07:16 Berlin Hbf - Praha 11:35
Ave speed: 91 km/h
Operator: @db_bahn & @ceskedrahy_

Train type: @SiemensMobility Vectron and carriages
⚡️
🚲: ✅ (must be reserved)
🦽: ✅ (with a lift on platform)
📶: ✅
🍽: ✅

Oh. @FuturiumD next to Berlin Hbf has an exhibition on the future of mobility. What images do they use? A jellyfish and a *massive road junction* #fail #autokorrektur #tiredofthisshit

Agh no. No @_DiningCar in EC 171 today 😭

Thanks for the info on the belt, fellow passenger. The accent and and the waistline hadn’t already alerted me 😜

I’m in first class on EC 171 Berliner today, and the train manager has just had to send 9 passengers out of the carriage because they had 2nd class tickets. A family of 4, 3 backpackers, and 2 backpackers. Are these people chancing it? Or are they clueless?

Arriving Dresden, crossing the river.

Americans in the carriage: “I wonder what river that is?”

One of them googles it. “The Elby!”

Two policemen get on at Dresden Hbf, presumably heading to Bad Schandau to do some passenger profiling of passengers on northbound EuroCity trains

And neither is wearing a mask…

American get a SMS. “Welcome to Czechia! Err, Chechnya?”

Meanwhile the air in here is grim. 1837 PPM CO2. My mask is on tight.

Classic motive power 🇨🇿

While long distance EuroCity trains Dresden - Děčín - Ústí nad Labem run every two hours, and are electric, the RB28 local train across this border is a small DMU, even though the line is electrified. Once the Dresden - Ústí tunnel is complete, extend the ⚡️ Dresden S-Bahn here!

The Americans: “Is Bratislava Budapest?” 🤔

Data roaming, railways version (on board EC 171 Berlin - Praha)

The Americans: “You know what there’s not around here? Windmills!”

Okay.

Slides for my event in Praha now ready!
bit.ly/CrossBorderRai…

Will know shortly before 12:30 if a live stream will be possible too…

Hosted by @isfcentre - event details here if you happen to want to come along 🙂
crossborderrail.trainsforeurope.eu/details-of-the…

Praha hl. n.

Nice trip @ceskedrahy_

Now a quick cycle to @isfcentre

#CrossBorderRail Train 101
R 723 15:30 Praha hl. n. - Ceske Velenice 18:33
Ave speed: 61 km/h
Operator: @ceskedrahy_

Train type: Škoda 362 locomotive and carriages
⚡️now, ⛽️ later
🚲: ✅ (high steps)
🦽: ✅ (needs a ramp or lift)
📶:❓ (in some carriages?)
🍽: ⛔️

The local train to Sedlcany from the neighbouring platform

Switching to diesel power at Veselí nad Lužnicí

#CrossBorderRail Train 102
REX 41 (2131) 19:05 Ceske Velenice - Wien Franz Josefs Bahnhof 21:28
Ave speed: 69 km/h
Operator: @unsereoebb

Train type: Taurus locomotive & City Shuttle double deck carriages
⚡️
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (step free if platform allows)
📶: ⛔️
🍽: ⛔️

Evening light on a @unsereOEBB Taurus locomotive

Oooh. New Slovenian Railways Stadler built train at Sigmundsherberg 🇦🇹 - presumably getting it approved to run into Austria. Good! 💪

The last light of the day crossing the Danube at Tulln

And if you’re reading this wondering “where’s he going?” then tonight it’s Wien. Tomorrow it’s Budapest then back to Wien then to Graz. And there are events crossborderrail.trainsforeurope.eu/details-of-the…