Thread by @jonworth

Welcome to #CrossBorderRail - DE-CZ-PL extra day - the finale! twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

I’m not a morning person. But early morning Berlin is quite nice

#CrossBorderRail Train 181
EC 171 07:16 Berlin Hbf - Děčín 09:54
Ave speed: 98 km/h
Operator: @db_bahn & @ceskedrahy_

Train type: @SiemensMobility Vectron & ČD carriages
⚡️
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (not step free - needs lift on platform)
📶: ✅
🍽: ✅

For some reason that wasn’t announced we departed Hbf top level today. And we’re late, and that’s not been explained either 🤷‍♂️

Here’s today’s route map

#CrossBorderRail Train 182
Os 6654 10:36 Dečín - Rumburk 11:48
Ave speed: 49 km/h
Operator: @ceskedrahy_

Train type: PARS Nova DMU (rebuild of class 810 from the 1970s)
⛽️
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (step free - very good)
📶: ⛔️
🍽: ⛔️

This is why I like Děčín - two trains to Rumburk on different routes, the DB one via Germany. I’m on the ČD one that stays in Czechia

Probably the last bit of #fensterauf on #CrossBorderRail 😭

Seifhennersdorf

More Seifhennersdorf

#CrossBorderRail Train 183
TL L7 (20921) 15:50 Varnsdorf Pivovar Kocour - Zittau 16:13
Ave speed: 50 km/h
Operator: Trilex

Train type: @SiemensMobility Desiro Classic DMU
⛽️
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (step free - but with a wide gap)
📶: ⛔️
🍽: ⛔️

#CrossBorderRail Rail Replacement Bus
16:46 Zittau - Hagenwerder 17:21
Operator: organised by ODEG

Bus type: modern MAN regional bus
⚡️
🚲:❓ (would just about fit in hold)
🦽: ✅ (not step free, but there’s space for a wheelchair)
📶: ⛔️
🍽: ⛔️

Err no. It’s ⛽️ not ⚡️

Careless tweeting!

Have a pic of some trees and track at Seifhennersdorf instead. And no no trains run here, don’t worry.

Hagenwerder to Poland

Ahhh 👍

#CrossBorderRail Train 184
RE1 (5686) 19:00 Zgorzelec - Görlitz 19:04
Ave speed: 29 km/h
Operator: Trilex

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

#CrossBorderRail Train 185
RB 65 (62134) 19:44 Görlitz - Cottbus 20:56
Ave speed: 78 km/h
Operator: ODEG (Netinera Group)

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

That bridge again. Oh and the sign showing the electrification Polish side was EU financed. Zgorzelec (this side) - Görlitz (in the distance)

Postamt Görlitz

Also I’m optimistic about today. Re-connecting Seifhennersdorf 🇩🇪 to Varnsdorf 🇨🇿 and then through to Zittau 🇩🇪 is very easy. It’s 4km of track, replacement of one level crossing. No more staff or trains needed. Was useful to go!

This was not pleasant at the road border Rumburk 🇨🇿 - Seifhennersdorf 🇩🇪 earlier!

#CrossBorderRail Train 186 (of 186!)
RE 1 (3198) 21:09 Cottbus - Berlin Hbf 23:27
Ave speed: 76 km/h
Operator: @db_bahn

Train type: @SiemensMobility Taurus & 5 double deck coaches
⚡️
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (step free - but slopes inside)
📶: ❓(supposedly, doesn’t work)
🍽: ⛔️

Schengen, eh

(Not my train, but why the HELL are EuroCity trains from Warsaw still being delayed by the Bundespolizei?)

The Ostkreuz problem is going to delay me though…

And *after* boarding the RE1 Cottbus - Berlin @db_bahn chooses to re-route it. Had this decision been made before I could have gone via Königs Wusterhausen and a bus

So diffusing the WWII bomb at Ostkreuz means a diversion via Hohenschönhausen and Pankow to Gesundbrunnen… it’s going to be late in Berlin tonight! After midnight at Hbf… then cycling home 9km with 2 folding bikes in the trailer

The re-routing also changes the total stats for the project…

186 trains
95 border crossings
34 main bike legs
5 scheduled buses
8 rail replacement buses
3 ferries
1 taxi
1 rail replacement Tesla

30175 km 🚆
956 km 🚲
1562 km ⛴ 🚕 🚌

I’ll re-check all this, and re-do the map, tomorrow!

A reminder that in 10 days I’ll be presenting the first conclusions of the #CrossBorderRail project - an in person event in Berlin, accompanied with a live stream

https://twitter.com/jonworth/status/1559910081159958528