Ahhhh 😊

[sam@shonk.sam.ax]

@PKYo@kind.social @jon@gruene.social I have been desensitised to announcements starting with “this is a security announcement” on GB stations that I am pretty sure i will absolutely ignore it if there was actually some sort of security incident

[jon@gruene.social]

@pierogiburo only in summer peak months

[rensbloom@zug.network]

@jon most modern trains have a sliding step to cover the gap between train and platform. This looks indeed step-free.

[jon@gruene.social]

@RensBloom Talgo only has a gap filler at the disabled access door. It doesn’t anywhere else.

[aloxe@mast.eu.org]

@jon attends, c'est quelle gare ?

[jon@gruene.social]

@aloxe Köln Hbf. DB is leasing some Vectron locomotives from ČD for inner Germany service.

[quixoticgeek@social.v.st]

@moof @semireg @jon and yet we talk about being Deutschebahned. But rarely about being SNCF'd. Cos the later often means couldn't travel in the first place...

[semireg@nrw.social]

@quixoticgeek @moof @jon
Which could lead to a philosophical discussion along the lines of "is it more painful to get delayed on the way to your goal or not to be able to start the way at all"

[bertapetra@chaos.social]

@jon wenn das Köln ist: Ich stieg dort mal mit vollgepacktem Fahrrad ein, hatte schon Respekt. Vor mir eine Familie mit kleinen Kindern, die fanden das auch nicht so günstig.

[jon@gruene.social]

@bertapetra Ja. Köln Hbf. It’s extraordinary they didn’t build gap filler steps in these trains.

[plactagonic@f.cz]

@jon it is definitely CD train but the carriages looks like they don't belong to it. What's that?

I know that they have cobbled together trains but I thought that they don't run in different countries.

[prl@hachyderm.io]

@jon Interrail, unfortunately, have just emailed me to say that our personal data has been breached. 🫣

Enjoy your trip.

https://www.interrail.eu/en/ni/data-security-incident

[jon@gruene.social]

@prl yes I know. I have rhe same.

[jon@gruene.social]

@plactagonic DB is leasing Vectrons from ČD

[ei8gvb@mastodon.radio]

@tml @erebion @tal an English speaker with imagination should be able to decipher a short phrase quite easily when presented with it in the 3 closest languages. Figuring things out is part of the fun of being a tourist.

[jon@gruene.social]

Ok, +30 departing Köln (missing timetable data 🤨)

Now we‘re going: it’s not terrible, but it’s not great either

The wheel noise is noticeably louder than in other ICEs

And there’s a loud air hissing noise every time the train brakes

[jon@gruene.social]

At these lower speeds at least it doesn’t have the vibrations of a Renfe 106, but the ride is rather jerky somehow. Not serene.

[michael@weatherby2378.social]

@jon

Yep. "Fuck cyclists and families and older people." (Someone at DB probably)

@RensBloom

[tml@mementomori.social]

@ei8gvb @erebion @tal Exactly!

(But I guess it might be harder for somebody whose native language is not English, or not even Indo-European, even if they know (just) English. It requires experience and skill to successfully guesstimate what simple sentences in a language mean when you don't know it but it is closely related to a language you do know.)

[ar1@mastodon.social]

@jon 40 years of blackzeroing (and wasting billions on overpriced stuff or never-to-work projects, Spahn and Scheuer anyone?) have made Germany an economic waste-paper-basket item. Failure to lead in innovation sectors (solar, EV, IT) because of conservativism has kicked us badly in the butt. **Broken railway system, internet speed that sucks, bureaucracy** that doesn't deliver anything but pain to the people and has expanded like a political skin rash... Oh, well.