Ahhhh 😊

[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.

[ei8gvb@mastodon.radio]

@tml @erebion @tal you're probably right. I have to confess though as a full-time English speaker and part-time Irish speaker I'd be more excited to see Irish on the side of a train in Brussels, even if that's a totally impractical idea.

[jonas_bostrom@mastodonsweden.se]

@jon That's really horrible. How much longer will each station stop take with that gap?

[tml@mementomori.social]

@Jonas_Bostrom @jon One wonders how they managed to design the train like that? Are the same carriage models expected to be sold to some country where the platform is much closer to the track?