Jon WorthWelcome to #CrossBorderRail Day 13
Here’s today’s intro video - I’m off to Weißwasser and Horka
PeerTube
Rail passengers are a bit dim sometimes
My RE 2 Berlin - Cottbus goes through the touristy Spreewald. But today starts at Ostbahnhof, not Hbf, due to engineering works. It stops at Ostkreuz on the way out of Berlin
What do *masses* of passengers do, inc many with bikes?
Rather than get on at Ostbahnhof (train stands 20 mins, large station) they all try to get on at Ostkreuz (smaller platforms, much shorter dwell time) - and many get left behind 🤦♂️
I appreciate the bi-lingual signs in the RE 2 to Chóśebuz gł.dw. but Brand Tropical Islands is rather disappointing 😉 Shouldn’t it be Ogień tropikalne wyspy? (DeepL doesn’t translate hornjoserbšćina so Polish will have to do!)
Some morning reading for you - in Dutch 😉
After my Dutch TV debut yesterday on NPO2 there’s now a long follow up piece in De Groene Amsterdammer - it goes into more depth: https://www.groene.nl/artikel/de-treinrenaissance
Cottbus - Zittau train full of bikes. But it’s a Siemens Desiro DMU - these have the best overhead racks. So up goes the folded Birdy
#CrossBorderRail Train 56
RE 2 (95034)
08:35 Berlin Ostbahnhof - Cottbus Hbf 09:54
DB Regio AG Nordost
Average speed 89 km/h
Distance 117 km
Train type: Taurus locomotive, 5 double deck carriages
⚡️
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (just about step free)
🛜: ✅
🧳: 🙂 (double deck but many multi use spaces)
🧽: 🙂
#CrossBorderRail Train 57
RB 65 (68813)
10:04 Cottbus Hbf - Weißwasser(Oberlausitz) 10:35
Ostdeutsche Eisenbahn GmbH
Average speed 82 km/h
Distance 42 km
Train type: Siemens Desiro DMU, 2 carriages (not enough!)
⛽️
🚲: ✅ (and many on board!)
🦽: ✅ (step free)
🛜: ⛔️
🧳: 🙂 (the best designed DMUs for luggage space)
🧽: 🙂
Fürst Pückler Park and Schloss, Bad Muskau. Eccentric, but really nice. And the little town isn’t bad either.
Palm trees! Lions! Eccentric castle. Massive park. And you can just wander around the grounds, you don’t have to pay. Bad Muskau is worth a visit!
And if it weren’t cool enough, the 🇩🇪 🇵🇱 border bisects the park
This bench is right on the border line on the bridge
This place is a LOT of fun!
And on the Polish side there’s a Polenmarkt. And you can buy yourself a lion. And some petrol. Of all the borders I’ve been too this one is all the good and bad rolled into one!
Cabbages! Cigarettes! Dodgy looking pottery! Gherkins! Hair metamorphosis (whatever that is)!
The old rail bridge Muskau 🇩🇪 - Łęknica 🇵🇱, today a bike path
And the road bridge, further downstream. The metal roofs to the right are the Polenmarkt
Old station at Przewóz
Platforms removed, but the track is impeccable - but hasn’t been used for a long time
The track used to continue to Germany from here
Next former #CrossBorderRail line. As you can see from the map I’m right near it. But I can’t get to the edge of the Neiße due to a 🐗 wild boar fence. And from the drone there’s nothing to be seen - not even any bridge remnants.
Late stage capitalism
Am I the weird one, but I tend to not have dreams about the perfect roof tiles
Germany CAN electrify #CrossBorderRail lines* to Poland across the Neiße
* - only for freight though
Pepijn
Coffee Pinewood@jon What's actually happening is them trying to awake that dream and get you buying.
hagelzörnchen@jon have to admit I am fascinated by the ones that are solar modules, but never intended to own a roof
FyraFlop34@jon In Belgium, there is a famous radio spot about a company supplying dream kitchens
Ihar Filipau@jon It may be intended as a temporary "parking space"* for trains.
*Don't know the proper term.
Jo Brown@jon It is not to nowhere, but shhhhht 🤫 #gatetoanotherworld
Edmund Lauterbach
DeterioratedStucco@jon You can just about see the scar (actually slightly greener than the surrounding area) where it's been removed, I think.
@SoftwareTheron Maybe. I’ll Analyse properly once I’m home!
Kill cars for climate!@jon You can see that the foundation is still there. It is just a pattern in the grass.
@jon Hello Jon, you wrote you didn't come for the Waldeisenbahn. Just looked at maps and stuff, do I understand correctly that of the regular rail network, Weißwasser is the closest station, there is that Bimmelbahn to Bad Muskau but no other rail, and no rail to be seen anywhere close on the Polish side?
@KarlE there used to be a standard gauge line to Poland. Now dismantled.
@jon (turns out, I might have been close to there recently, there was a demo at Nochten against extending the brown coal exploitation a few weekends ago, which I contemplated attending, but couldn't travel due to sickness. Not saying that I would have surely gone there anyway, but at least I considered it.)
Gareth Illmann-Walker 🐧@jon Oh yes, I know that market well. Great sausages there. ;-)
Kate Watson@jon Fantastic looking asparagus, to be fair!
@jon Might be a bit inconvenient to take home on the bike! :)
Tomasz Oryński@jon so now we know where those lions in the castle came from!
Horst Thieme@jon Hope you made it to the park! What a beauty!
@jon Visiting it once a year because of family near by. https://pixelfed.social/p/ibigfoot/497315726901981818
@ibigfoot it’s so great. Bizarre. But huge. So even on a day like today you have space.
@jon Have you taken the Waldeisenbahn? There‘s a tour to Kromlau, too. Absolutely worth to make this trip!
@jon Let me know and we meet up if you ever try out this train :)
Draisine fahren im Odenwald | Solardraisine Überwaldbahn
Die weltweit erste Solardraisine Denkmalgeschütze Bahnstrecke Atemberaubende Natur Rund 10 km Fahrtstrecke 3 historische Viadukte Bis 15 km/h schnell 2 Tunnelfahrten Für bis zu 8 Personen
Philipp@jon haha, this is the second time in recent weeks this shows up in my timeline /cc @tvluke https://social.chaotikum.org/@tvluke/110287344203769600
TVLuke (@[email protected])
Attached: 2 images Zähle ich Mal beim Nahverkehrscounter nicht mit. Die historische Waldeisenbahn Muskau kostet 8 € für eine Fahrt von Bad Muskau nach Weißwasser. Voll gut. Achja. Eisgrüße auch. #hlwt
Moritz Krähe@jon Oh, and I was originally planning to go there today...!
Fell@jon Sounds like a town from an RPG.
🌺 Cat Pöñíçkøvā@jon polish is a very poor approximation of the language and even that translation is wrong, ogien is fire, that is not a meaningful translation for brand which is a place name (that may not really have a Serbian one)
@pony what’s up with you this morning. Why so sour? Brand means fire in German. And I wasn’t being entirely serious!