波鉄 (Hatetsu)So, as I imagine is becoming a regular #RailwayNewYear activity for me, I am Takt hunting. Which is to say, I'm trawling #PLK timetables to see how well #PKPIC's boasts of the increasing number of Takt relations are reflected in the actual timings (having realized that expanding to something similar to https://mastodon.com.pl/@HaTetsu/115142221091238924 would be rather too time-consuming right now). The south is currently rather disrupted by the twin worksites at Katowice station and Kraków-Kozłów, but getting into the 200s, we have our first result!
The (Białystok-)Warsaw-Łódź-Wrocław relation, also known as line P15 in the 2035 network draft, is now almost fully 2h Takt until Ostrów Wielkopolski! (EDIT: In the other direction, there's equal spacing from Wrocław until the 3pm train, at which point things get somewhat messed up and only get evened out around Sieradz) Getting equal spacing on the Ostrów-Wrocław leg has proven beyond PLK's ability at this time, which is understandable - a single-track section, further encumbered due to an ongoing closure on its twin running via Międzybórz Sycowski and, of course, the Gordian knot of the three-track western approach to Wrocław Główny where traffic from seven directions has to fit all work against the planners.
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波鉄 (Hatetsu) (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image (This is the promised English thread) Here it is - the final (if kinda ugly, I'm no good at design) version of the #EffectivePaxRailNet Polish Lands 1939 map! I drew it on paper and then digitized it with Inkscape, styling the lines with color and thickness to indicate the longest gaps between trains on the given sections. The dashed-not-dotted (slightly thicker) lines are generally ones with 6~6.5 pairs where my notes didn't clearly indicate the gaps were all smaller than 4h. I used modern, or at least as modern as possible, Polish names everywhere (except for Kaliningrad Oblast, that place is complicated). (And yeaaah, I really need to find somewhere I can host these things on a more permanent basis, especially including the original SVG - you can barely see the smallest captions due to Mastodon image size limits) (Post with rules I apply here: https://mastodon.com.pl/@HaTetsu/114558906905813832) (I'd like to note that as I only looked at timetables of individual lines, you can't exactly judge the "effectiveness" of junction stations with this map, researching timed transfers is a whole 'nother thing) 1/n (This thread is dedicated to @[email protected] @[email protected] and @[email protected] (the former to for sparking the bout of inspiration that led to me actually doing this and the latter, because without him I wouldn't have been here to interact with the former two) #rail #pkp #DeutscheReichsbahn #bahnbubble #trainbubble #history