Ahhhh 😊

[nicovel0@mastodon.social]

@jon well technically a giant chasm isn’t a step

[lewd@zug.network]

@jon Oh, had that one yesterday from Bruxelles to Germany !

[pierogiburo@tech.lgbt]

@jon hm, i thought you had to reserve seats for cross-border trains, has that changed?

[stefanlindbohm@mastodon.social]

@Sobex Ah, then we should have it too most likely. Cooperation/cross-border trains are complicated but if it’s domestic and/or outside the DACH countries and DB has it, then we should have it too. They use the same data source for that. (DACH countries have some internal timetable exchange that is not public, so there it differs, mostly on time it takes for changes to show.)

@partim @jon

[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