Jon WorthWelcome to #CrossBorderRail Day 13
Here’s today’s intro video - I’m off to Weißwasser and Horka
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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
KarlE@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?
@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.)