And if you’re @seatsixtyone levels of obsessive about this stuff, ICE 1156 is a ICE2, locomotive at the front.
Meaning seats 41 (north side) and 45 (south side) in carriage 21, 2nd class, are window seats - at a quiet dead end of a carriage. Highly recommended!
Ahhhhhh now I’m on a @SiemensMobility RRX to towards Aachen. Germany’s best regional trains. The mix of single and double deck carriages is excellent.
And yes, today isn’t strictly a #CrossBorderRail day. But I have the bike with me… and the drone… and it’s a sunny day… So I’m going to explore the Stolberg-Aachen missing link from the Stolberg end.
Sorry, Stolberg - Eupen missing link that should have said. Via Raeren.
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Interesting point from @nickabrooks - the two firms operating local trains that failed are Abellio (belonged to NS 🇳🇱) and Keolis (SNCF 🇫🇷). Did that these firms belonged to other state railways contribute to their failure?
The case that it did: that they under-bid to win contracts, assuming the states they’re from would step in (they didn’t)
Case it didn’t: having the backing of a big state owned firm ought to have given them better terms to acquire rolling stock, and better operational competence