Jon WorthWelcome to #CrossBorderRail Extra Day 07
Good news today! 🎉
I’m off to Seifhennersdorf (🇩🇪🇨🇿 border) for the re-opening of the railway line - after 8 years
Here’s today’s intro
PeerTube
#CrossBorderRail Extra Days Train 57
RE 2 (3102)
05:35 Berlin Ostbahnhof - Cottbus Hbf 06:55
DG Regio NordOst
Distance: 117 km
Average speed: 88 km/h
Train type: Taurus locomotive, 5 double deck carriages, driving trailer
⚡️
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (step free into lower level)
🛜: ✅
🍽️: ⛔️
🧳: 🙂 (lots of multi use areas)
🧽: 🙂
#CrossBorderRail Extra Days Train 58
RB 65 (68807)
07:04 Cottbus Hbf - Zittau 08:55
ODEG
Distance: 127 km
Average speed: 69 km/h
Train type: Siemens Desiro Classic DMU, 2 carriages
⛽️
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (step free, there’s a little slide out ramp to bridge gap to platform)
🛜: ⛔️
🍽️: ✅ (you can buy snacks)
🧳: 🙂 (the best designed small DMU)
🧽: 🙂 (it’s a bit worn but it’s clean)
And this train takes the Görlitz - Zittau line that crosses DE-PL-DE-PL-DE in about 20km of its route
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahnstrecke_Zittau%E2%80%93Hagenwerder?wprov=sfti1
A particular oddity is Krzewina - in Poland, but its railway station serves the German village Ostritz - across the Neiße https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krzewina_(Bogatynia)?wprov=sfti1
Konosocio@jon This was so funny when there was still roaming. my phone wouldn't shut up alerting me to a new provider.
@jon no, unfortunately not! (I really like crossing the border on a train because sometimes *somehow* everything looks different and you can tell that you're in another country even if your only a couple of hundreds of meters away from the border)
@konosocio Right. Totally! And that Czech one is a nice route in hilly terrain, slightly old fashioned feeling to it.
@jon Sounds perfect. I really like following your project, there is quite a list of routes and places I would like to see for myself! Thank you for that.
@konosocio These border places are always fascinating. Not always optimistic though. And today I’m going through Poland and then to the Czech border, and that makes me happy - those two borders are Germany’s most interesting I think!
@konosocio related: maybe I ought to make a Top 10 cross border lines to take post? Something that’s more a travel guide?
@jon well I took your report and photos when you went to Serbia (I think it was Serbia?) as such. 😊