Welcome to #CrossBorderRail Day 08. I’m heading to Strasbourg via Wingen s/Moder, then it’s on to Wissembourg, Lauterbourg and Karlsruhe - and an event there this evening

Here’s the video to start the thread today https://urbanists.video/w/aWyc7WGCVTSGv6gF5AAe69

#CrossBorderRail Day 08 Intro

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#CrossBorderRail Train 29

TER 86381
09:39 Saarbrücken Hbf - Strasbourg 11:25
SNCF for Grand Est (Fluo)

Distance: 115 km
Average speed: 65 km/h

Train type: 2 x X 73900 railbus
⛽️
🚲: ✅ (4 places per carriage - good!)
🦽: ✅ (needs lift at some stations)
🛜: ⛔️
🧳: 🙂
🧽: 🙂

#Deutschlandticket: ⛔️ (€23,50 per person)

Having looked further - and @partim helped too - I think there’s no way to get an eTicket for this Saarbrücken-Strasbourg train #CrossBorderRail

DB ticket machines can sell you a paper ticket for €26,60, or it’s €23,50 from SNCF Connect, then collect at a French ticket machine in France

Electrify and speed up this route to 120-140 km/h and it’d be time competitive with driving…

#CrossBorderRail Train 30

TER 30522
11:40 Strasbourg - Haguenau 12:17
SNCF for Fluo Grand Est

Distance: 35 km
Average speed: 56 km/h

Train type: Alstom (now CAF) Régiolis 6 carriages bi-mode
⚡️⛽️ (⛽️ here)
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (step free)
🛜: ⛔️
🧳: 🙂
🧽: 🤔 (not cleaned outside in a while)

#Deutschlandticket: ⛔️

Now arriving in Short Trousers

(I know it doesn’t mean that, but I sometimes sort of read things in the wrong language)

Haguenau has a smart new station. It also has a waiting room that’s nicer than anything in a new German station… but all the trains are diesel, the tracks aren’t in a great state, and a bunch of the trains to Wissembourg are replaced by buses… priorities!

#CrossBorderRail Bus 05

TER 400588
13:08 Haguenau - Wissembourg 14:11
Antoni Haguenau for SNCF / TER Fluo Grand Est

Distance: 32 km
Average speed: c 30 km/h

Bus type: Yutong, no idea what type
⛽️
🚲: ❓(in the hold… that’s full of water)
🦽: ✅ (lift on board)
📶: ⛔️
🧳: 🤔 (luggage hold not useable because it’s full of water)
🧽: 🙂 (inside it’s v clean)

#Deutschlandticket: ⛔️

For reasons I’ll explain once I’ve sorted this issue, I’m going to shift Sunday’s #CrossBorderRail event from Görlitz to Dresden

BUT I need a venue - a cafe ideally - near Dresden Hbf, Sunday lunchtime

But the choice on a Sunday there is very limited

Have any of you been to this

Kaffeebar Chicco di caffè
https://maps.app.goo.gl/QWDnKtSnZHXaBpeFA?g_st=ic

How is it?

I checked the bar of InterCity Hotel but that’s closed. Better suggestions are very welcome!

Before you continue to Google Maps

Rail replacement bus on narrow roads in northern Alsace with a erratic driver. And even more absurd car drivers overtaking the bus. This isn’t my idea of fun.

I’m intrigued by mastery (or not) of driving vehicles through practice.

The driver of this bus - I assume - drives a bus every day. He’s at least 50, so I presume he’s been doing it some years. But he’s braking too sharply, accelerating too forcefully, hit a curb into a curve… From a passenger point of view this isn’t good driving at all.

Does he himself think he’s a good driver I wonder?

Trains. More in hope than expectation.
Field of gnomes
Nice views from the bus approaching Wissembourg

Wissembourg 🇫🇷

Trains to 🇩🇪
Buses to 🇫🇷

t marks the border!

Scheibenhard(t)

Just drop the umlaut 🙂

Worth am Rhein

The wifi is too slow to manage to stream from the event in Karlsruhe this evening

But the slides are here:
https://bit.ly/CrossBorderRailKarlsruhe

And if anyone wants me to present these then I am happy to do that after 16 May, also by webinar!

And this is *the* pic from Lauterbourg earlier - trains to Strasbourg and Wörth in the platform
And today has been amazing. Lots learned, lots to digest... more posts later!

#CrossBorderRail Train 31

RB52 (81472)
16:45 Lauterbourg - Wörth (Rhein) 17:00
DB Regio AG Mitte

Distance: 13 km
Average speed: 52 km/h

Train type: DB class 628 DMU, 2 carriages
⛽️
🚲: ✅ (steep steps but plenty of space)
🦽: ⛔️ (not accessible - platforms too low, steps too high)
🛜: ⛔️
🧳: 🙂
🧽: 🙂

#Deutschlandticket: ✅

#CrossBorderRail Train 32

RB51 (12415)
17:08 Wörth (Rhein) - Karlsruhe Mühlburg 17:18
DB Regio AG Mitte

Distance: 8 km
Average speed: 45 km/h

Train type: Talent DMU, 3 short carriages
⛽️
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (step free if platform allows)
🛜: ⛔️
🧳: 🙂
🧽: 🙂

#Deutschlandticket: ✅

And here is today's summary video! https://urbanists.video/w/tdZ5HZqnGNfXKz5bRnpNaR
#CrossBorderRail Day 08 summary

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@jon Been enjoying your posts on your train travels. Apologies not to have interacted further.

@jon hey, that's the place that's sorta home to me! ...except I don't quite live there anymore and I'm in sPain right now, oops.

(the s is silent, I blame RENFE)

@jon Was wonderful to see you ! Tea, Franzbrötchen and #CrossBorderRail gossip waiting for next time 🎉.
@lewd Yes! It was too short this time. I will send over the drone pics later, but this one I have on the laptop already
@jon if you want dschörmäns to pronounce it right, you need to keep the Umlaut!
Perl, Saarland - Wikipedia

@mfeilner no. Eastern north corner of Alsace. Perl is a long way west.
@jon “Nice”? I think you’re understating 😉
@jon I always wondered what the collective noun for gnomes was ;-)
@jon Finally I know what The Rutles’ “Living In Hope” is about!
@jon surtout que l'application sur l'affiche va s'arrêter...
@jon Well, he probably thinks he's above average...
@Martinned I suppose. But don’t fleets now monitor - for example - how much fuel a driver uses? This dude must be burning a lot extra.

@jon I bet he does. Isn't there some statistic that way more than half of drivers consider themselves "better than average".

I fear a lot of people don't even regard it as a skill you can be good at. Once you've got a licence, just do what suits you.

@jon

He could just be an inconsiderate operator, who cares more about his schedule than your comfort.

OTOH, I've driven some bus sized vehicles -- if you've ever seen a U.S. "ladder" fire truck you know what I mean. I can't imagine trying to drive that in most of the European cities I've seen without at least hitting curbs on most corners. That's one reason why the fire apparatus you have there is considerably different. Your busses, however, seem to be as big as ours.

@jon It may be, of course, that he used to do something else, and was made redundant or wanted a quieter life, so has only been driving a bus for a short time.

He probably realises all of his mistakes.

@jon 10 min walk away from DD Hbf: https://ladencafe.de/
Start - aha

Kreuzstraße 7, 01067 Dresden

aha
@organictraveller leider nicht am Sonntag offen :-/
@jon Das Café in der Kreuzstr. war bisher immer Sa/So 9-22 offen. Vielleicht über +49 351 4960673 überprüfen?
@organictraveller once I’m not on a bus I will. Danke ;-)
@jon the new station is wow indeed. Sad to hear that there is no electrification. There were always many buses in Haguenau. I remember SNCF trains to Lauterbourg being quite empty near the terminus. German trains were always more frequented. Maybe SNCF should try running its TER at regular time intervals ;)
@jon although the town flag for Hensbroek does answer the question of how a chicken would wear pants. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hensbroek
Hensbroek - Wikipedia

@jon So this is where @Kurt_C_Hose is coming from :D
@jon It totally means short trousers.
@jon
In reality, it refers to a building owned by the main character from Heart of Darkness.
@jon
Fais surtout gaffe à la police ferroviaire (Agressifs armés et...mal formés 😁 j ai réellement peur de quelques uns en Auvergne)
@Canalbaobab pas de police aujourd’hui à la gare 🙂
@jon 😁😊oui bon c est la france l alsace mais bref ça va
C est la france ..provisoirement 😊
Vive l europe !
Et vivement je prenne mes 7 ou 8 TER de KEHL😉 pour monter à Berlin😊
J adore descendre et aller boire une bière ici manger un gâteau là
Comme un gamin
Et maintenant au lieu de payer (seulement )autour de 80 €
Ce sera 49 et ça bref c est carrement génial 😊
Bonne journée
Gaffe aux mecs armés pas formés en 'france'
@jon since when is Alstom CAF?
@maartje Alstom had to divest the Reichshoffen plant and the Régiolis production when it bought Bombardier. And it was sold to CAF. So Régiolis is now a CAF product.
@jon 😱
@maartje and Reichshoffen is in north Alsace. Go have a look! (I’m not passing it today though - it’s on the branch to Niederbronn)
@jon i also was asked to ask when you will arrive in Lauterbourg? #Franzbroetchen
@maartje @lewd about 15:30, by bike. And I need to take the 16:45 train to Wörth. Where should I go at 15:30?
@jon and I splited in two for a bit. We left Saarbrücken this morning. I stopped in Strasbourg. We will meet again in Lauterburg before going to Karlsruhe. #crossborderrail