Thread by @jonworth

Welcome to #CrossBorderRail DE-CZ extra day 2 with @martin_speer twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Here’s today’s route map, and a zoom in on the border part

Extraordinary foggy morning at Tempelhof cycling to Hbf this morning

How to get 2 folding bikes to Hbf from Neukölln

Today I’m travelling with @martin_speer - do follow him for all things #Interrail #DiscoverEU

https://twitter.com/martin_speer/status/1559399966803738625

#CrossBorderRail Train 172
ICE 503 06:30 Berlin Hbf - Leipzig Hbf 07:42
Ave speed: 140 km/h
Operator: @db_bahn

Train type: @SiemensMobility & Bombardier ICE4
⚡️
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (not step free, needs lift on platform)
📶: ⛔️ (is normally, but broken today)
🍽: ✅

Leipzig Hbf - so massive and with spare platforms that they can park museum locomotives on one!

Deutsche Reichsbahn

#CrossBorderRail Train 173
RE 6 (74166) 08:22 Leipzig Hbf - Chemnitz Hbf 09:25

Ave speed: 77 km/h
Operator: Mitteldeutsche Regiobahn (Transdev)

Train type: @SiemensMobility EuroRunner & 5 old carriages
⚡️
🚲: ✅ (narrow doors)
🦽: ✅ (needs lift on platform)
📶: ⛔️
🍽: ⛔️

#CrossBorderRail Train 174
RB 80 (23711) 09:36 Chemnitz Hbf - Cranzahl 11:01
Ave speed: 46 km/h
Operator: @db_bahn

Train type: @SiemensMobility Desiro Classic DMU
⛽️
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (step free if platform allows)
📶: ⛔️
🍽: ⛔️

Chemnitz Hbf is quite an interesting construction. Trams one side. Through platforms other side. Terminus platforms in the middle. Pity its long distance connections are so poor!

Zschopau Ost. Deluxe station here!

Signs still say Vejprty 🇨🇿 but no trains run beyond Cranzahl 🇩🇪 on weekdays at least…

So as @lewis_baston says there are still trains on weekends Cranzahl - Vejprty - Chomutov…

https://twitter.com/lewis_baston/status/1559455455604199424

Ah no, sod, something up with settings in my DB Navigator. Reset it to default and trains show. Thanks @elba013 @_wrzlbrnft_ @partialcontent

Meanwhile Chemnitz - Cranzahl is a slow but wonderfully scenic winding line along a deep wooded valley

#CrossBorderRail Train 175
SDG 1003 11:36 Cranzahl - Hammerunterwiesenthal 12:25
Ave speed: 16 km/h (not a typo)
Operator: SDG

Train type: DR class 99 narrow gauge steam & carriages
🔥💦
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (very narrow but possible)
📶: ⛔️
🍽: ⛔️

And yes. You can use #9euroticket on the steam train SDG Fichtelbergbahn Cranzahl-Oberwiesenthal 💪

#9euroticket is allowed on some unusual trains

Here it is departing. Sound on

What I’m actually here for… the route Cranzahl-Vejprty-Chomutov - it runs only Saturdays - České Hamry

Horní Halže

#CrossBorderRail Train 176
Os 7058 14:39 Perstejn - Karlovy Vary 15:13
Ave speed: 59 km/h
Operator: @ceskedrahy_

Train type: PESA Link “RegioShark”
⛽️
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (step free if platform allows, only few do here)
📶: ✅
🍽: ⛔️

#CrossBorderRail Train 177
Os 17114 17:06 Karlovy Vary Dolni n. - Nejdek 17:40
Ave speed: 31 km/h (really?)
Operator: @ceskedrahy_

Train type: PESA Link “RegioShark”
⛽️
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (step free if platform allows)
📶: ✅
🍽: ⛔️

Karlovy Vary dolni n.

And a strangely designed GW Train railbus awaits to depart in the other direction

#CrossBorderRail Rail Replacement Bus
17:42 Nejdek - Potůčky 18:16
Operator: @ceskedrahy_ organised

Bus type: Karosa IVECO Crossway
⛽️

🚲: ✅ (in a separate van!)
🦽: ✅ (ramp and space on board)
📶: ⛔️
🍽: ⛔️

#CrossBorderRail Train 177
RB 95986 18:27 Potůčky - Zwickau (Sachs) Hbf 19:40
Ave speed: 47 km/h
Operator: @db_bahn

Train type: @siemensmobility Desiro Classic DMU
⛽️
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (step free if station platform allows)
📶: ⛔️
🍽: ⛔️

This doesn’t show correctly in DB Navigator. It might have another train number, but Os 95986 becomes RB 95, no change in Johanngeorgenstadt needed

An old Berlin S-Bahn carriage. Redeployed as a döner restaurant in Breitenbrunn (Erzgeb)

#CrossBorderRail Train 178
S 5X 20:04 Zwickau (Sachs) Hbf - Leipzig Hbf 21:22
Ave speed: 66 km/h
Operator: @db_bahn

Train type: Bombardier Talent 2 EMU
⚡️
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (step free)
📶: ✅
🍽: ⛔️

You have to teach them young about Deutsche Bahn

Leipzig

#CrossBorderRail Train 179
ICE 594 21:16 Leipzig Hbf - Berlin Hbf 22:44
Ave speed: 115 km/h (or is it diverted? Normally 140km/h)
Operator: @db_bahn

Train type: ICE1
⚡️
🚲: ✅ (temporary in compartments, this is usually ICE4)
🦽: ✅ (lift on platform)
📶: ✅
🍽: ✅

No summary video today. Bike fell on iPhone and damaged the front camera and cracked screen :-/ No injuries but it’s annoying. More tomorrow. Good night from Berlin!

A few more things from yesterday…

Here’s the #Fichtelbergsbahn arriving at Cranzahl taken from the drone (which was above a field at the time)

And here are some more pictures of the #Fichtelbergsbahn that you can take from Cranzahl to Oberwiesenthal on the #9EuroTicket

And here is @martin_speer enjoying some #FensterAuf approaching Chemnitz on the RegionalExpress - and a picture out of the window, and a Ludmilla parked up somewhere en route

We discovered why it was called Horní Halze 😉

And this is a perfect pic of the bike parts of #CrossBorderRail taken yesterday by @martin_speer - this project has taken me to wonderful places I’d never otherwise have gone. This was approaching Kovářská 🇨🇿