Jon WorthWelcome to #CrossBorderRail Extra Day 03
Currently hoping for… a bus!
PeerTube
27 mins says Google Maps
I need this bus to do it in 38 minutes. With no stops and on an empty road…
It’s a good start - the driver is going quite fast through the tunnels 😀
Made it! Rail replacement bus left 6 mins late (07:11 instead of 07:05) but arrived at Colico 10 mins early (07:42 instead of 07:52)
So I’m now in the train to Tirano and on schedule for the rest of the day 💪
And I’ve made it to the Rhätische Bahn
I’m on the regular local train, not the Bernina Express
#FensterAuf the whole way. Perfect.
I’m mostly using my SLR to photograph here (with the strap it’s safer through an open window!) so I’ll post more pics later. But this is a taster
Rhätische Bahn
Landwasser Viaduct pics are better going up, and I was descending from Filisur. But this isn’t bad 😊
From earlier in the route
- street running Tirano
- Brusio viaduct loop
- Lago Bianco
My route: Tirano - Pontresina - Samedan - Filisur - Reichenau - Chur
Lunch in the InterCity from Sargans to Zürich with long time reader of my blog Max Wyss, who also came along for a leg of #CrossBorderRail 2022
The train manager was confused how a guy with a DB ticket Tirano - Berlin was happily chatting to someone with a ticket Sargans - Zürich 🙂
Frustrating situation on the IC Zürich - Basel
Train manager asks a guy standing by the door area for his ticket. “My friend has it” he says. “Where’s your friend?” “He’s coming” “How can he be coming - the train is non stop to Basel”
The guy is lying. Has no ticket. No papers. No idea. Doesn’t even seem to know where he’s trying to go. And the SBB guy is doing his job, but what’s he to do here?
The police will pick up the passenger when we get to Zürich.
Basel SBB. From here today goes a little faster ☺️ EuroCity 52 to Frankfurt (Main) Hbf, then a ICE to Berlin from there
popeterNot done today’s assessments yet. Here they are!
#CrossBorderRail Extra Days Train 15
R 2812
06:20 Milano Centrale - Lecco 06:59
Trenord
Distance: 49 km
Average speed: 75 km/h
Train type: E.464 locomotive and 7 suburban carriages and driving car
⚡️
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (needs lift on platform)
🛜: ⛔️
🍽️: ⛔️
🧳: 🤔 (high steps, few dedicated multi use areas)
🧽: 🤔 (bit grimy)
#CrossBorderRail Extra Days Bus 1
SEV BUS 2812A/1.
07:05 Lecco - Colico 07:57
For Trenord, subcontracted
Distance: 39 km
Average speed: 45 km/h (but did it a lot faster! It took 32 mins)
Bus type: MAN Lion’s Coach 12
⛽️
🚲: ❓ (would go in hold I assume?)
🦽: ⛔️
🛜: ⛔️
🍽️: ⛔️
🧳: 🙂 (big hold)
🧽: 🙂
#CrossBorderRail Extra Days Train 16
R 33166
07:49 Colico - Tirano 08:54
Trenord
Distance: 66 km
Average speed: 61 km/h
Train type: Coradia Meridian 6 short carriages
⚡️
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (step free)
🛜: ⛔️
🍽️: ⛔️
🧳: 🙂 (decent multi use spaces)
🧽: 🙂
#CrossBorderRail Extra Days Train 17
R 1636
09:00 Tirano - Pontresina 10:56
Rhätische Bahn
Distance: 54 km
Average speed: 28 km/h
Train type: RhB ABe 8/12 3 carriage EMU hauling 7 additional carriages
⚡️
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (a kind of ramp on board)
🛜: ⛔️
🍽️: ⛔️
🧳: 🙂 (luggage carriage if you need it)
🧽: 🙂
#CrossBorderRail Extra Days Train 18
R 1936
11:02 Pontresina - Samedan 11:08
Rhätische Bahn
Distance: 7 km
Average speed: 69 km/h
Train type: RhB ABe 4/16 4 carriage EMU hauling 2 additional carriages
⚡️
🚲: ✅ (whole carriage for bikes)
🦽: ✅ (a kind of ramp on board)
🛜: ⛔️
🍽️: ⛔️
🧳: 🙂
🧽: 🙂
#CrossBorderRail Extra Days Train 19
IR 1140
11:15 Samedan - Chur 13:04
Rhätische Bahn
Distance: 84 km
Average speed: 46 km/h
Train type: RhB Ge 4/4 III electric locomotive, 6 carriage Albula Gliederzug, 1 extra carriage
⚡️
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (a kind of ramp on board)
🛜: ⛔️
🍽️: ⛔️
🧳: 🙂
🧽: 🙂
#CrossBorderRail Extra Days Train 20
IC 908
13:08 Chur - Zürich HB 14:22
SBB
Distance: 116 km
Average speed: 94 km/h
Train type: Twindexx IC EMU, 2 x 8 carriages
⚡️
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (step free)
🛜: ⛔️
🍽️: ✅
🧳: 🙂 (decent multi use spaces for a double deck train)
🧽: 🙂 (spotless)
#CrossBorderRail Extra Days Train 21
IC 572
14:34 Zürich HB - Basel SBB 15:28
SBB
Distance: 90 km
Average speed: 100 km/h
Train type: Twindexx IC EMU, 8 carriages
⚡️
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (step free)
🛜: ⛔️
🍽️: ✅
🧳: 🙂 (decent multi use spaces for a double deck train)
🧽: 🙂 (spotless)
#CrossBorderRail Extra Days Train 22
EC 52
15:38 Basel SBB - Frankfurt (Main) Hbf 18:44
Trenitalia, SBB & DB Fernverkehr
Distance: 333 km
Average speed: 107 km/h
Train type: ETR 610 Pendolino EMU, 7 carriages
⚡️
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (needs lift on platform)
🛜: ⛔️
🍽️: ✅
🧳: 🤔 (overhead racks good, but space for larger bags limited)
🧽: 🙂 (it’s clean, but a bit worn)
Also did SBB let @K1ngdaKa88 set their timetable here? 😀 A EuroCity from Switzerland that stops at Europa-Park 🎢
#CrossBorderRail Extra Days Train
ICE 572
19:02 Frankfurt (Main) Hbf - Berlin Südkreuz 22:43
DB Fernverkehr
Distance: 509 km
Average speed: 138 km/h
Train type: ICE4, 13 carriage version
⚡️
🚲: ✅ (needs reservation)
🦽: ✅ (needs lift, not step free)
🛜: ✅
🍽️: ✅
🧳: 🙂 (solid)
🧽: 🙂
And here’s today’s summary
#CrossBorderRail Extra Day 03 Summary
ShipScrewUnscrewer@jon @K1ngdaKa88 Like the eurostar london-disneyland line 😅
Michael Ummels (Trassenfinder)@jon @K1ngdaKa88 Europapark always wanted an ICE stop, but ICE trains cannot serve the platform at Ringsheim since the platform is both too low and too short, so DB came up with the idea of letting the ECE stop there.
https://www.baden.fm/nachrichten/bahnhof-ringsheim-wird-ice-haltestelle-fuer-den-europapark-682695/
@ummels @K1ngdaKa88 a few people did get out I can confirm! But surely Offenburg would make more sense as a stop!
@jon Play dumb games win dumb prices
cohomology is FUN!@jon I have a vivid memory from my teenage years of watching someone get cited by transit police for riding light rail without a ticket. I think she expected to just be kicked off, but they took down her information and gave her a court summons. It made me super conscientious about keeping track of my ticket.
Matti/Hoefi/Pikka
Martha@jon
WOW - still snow and ice - must be very high
WOW - still snow and ice - must be very high
@Island_Martha about 2150m
@Island_Martha it’s UNESCO listed. And it deserves it. It’s extraordinary engineering and spectacular.
VelteropⓐⓊ🪂🇪🇺🇳🇱🇬🇧🇩🇪@jon We love the Rhätische Bahn. We often take it from Landquart to Klosters and Davos. There used to be a direct ICE from Amsterdam to Landquart (and further to Chur) which made the journey to our Swiss friends most convenient for us. That service doesn't exist anymore, sadly.
Edmund Lauterbach@jon Looks pretty icy. I have traveled via Bernina several times, but it was either warm or raining.
@jon I remember a trip a long time ago from Piacenza to Munich via Tirano, St. Moritz, Chur (and St. Magarethen, where it was not nice to wait for the EC).
Martin Hoffmann
mistyislands@jon
Very beautiful picture!
Very beautiful picture!
@jon
Where is this please? It's beautiful.
Where is this please? It's beautiful.
@Island_Martha Tirano - St Moritz line
@jon
Thank you.
Thank you.
JulietJFall@jon Fabulous train! Enjoy! I went around there with my son during a brief time between Covid lockdowns on fabulously cheap CFF day passes bought from our commune in 🇨🇭. A lovely trip.
Jaap Burger
@burger_jaap Yes! A bit whiter then!
@jon interesting - is this an EMU pulling additional carriages?
Mark has moved!
RhB 3510 "Berninabahn" - Li Curt
@KarlE yes. 3 carriage EMU. 7 carriages.
@jon
It looks like Rhätische Bahn
It looks like Rhätische Bahn
@jon The Albula/Alvra trains should have a photo compartment. http://www.myway.de/souvenirs/suedgrau/index2.html#30a
Sara Joy 
@jon hope you make it, and in one piece!