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
Okay. Air conditioning malfunction here and I just got a load of cold water dripping on my head. Now I’m awake 😉
It’s normally hard to film a rail border when you’re in a train. But today I managed. The back window wasn’t covered by a blind, so here’s Hagenwerder 🇩🇪 - Ręczyn 🇵🇱 at the bridge over the Neiße
#CrossBorderRail Extra Days Train 59
TLX RE2 (20842)
09:02 Zittau - Neugersdorf 09:20
trilex - Die Länderbahn GmbH DLB
Distance: 22 km
Average speed: 72 km/h
Train type: Siemens Desiro Classic DMU, 2 x 2 carriages
⛽️
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (step free)
🛜: ✅
🍽️: ⛔️
🧳: 🙂 (v well designed)
🧽: 🙂
No train today though - it’s just the launch today
So I need to pedal swiftly 6.5km from Neugersdorf to Seifhennersdorf to get to the event at the station by 10:00
I’m both overjoyed about this (the whole town is turning up here to welcome the train!) and damned furious that it’s taken 8 years to fix this. Because of these lights at a level crossing. Oh and because the line goes to Czechia.
Here it is! The train at Seifhennersdorf 🇩🇪 - coming from Varnsdorf 🇨🇿 #CrossBorderRail
And here’s New York Times about Seifhennersdorf - when I brought them here last year https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/22/world/europe/europe-trains-climate-goals.html
#CrossBorderRail Extra Days Train SPECIAL
TLX L7 (Sonderzug)
11:00 Seifhennersdorf - Varnsdorf - Seifhennersdorf
trilex - Die Länderbahn GmbH DLB
Distance: c. 5 km
Average speed: no idea
Train type: Siemens Desiro Classic DMU, 2 carriages
⛽️
🚲: ❓ (blocked by the free food!)
🦽: ✅ (needs a ramp - on board - at Seifhennersdorf)
🛜: ✅
🍽️: ✅ (it’s free!)
🧳: 🙂
🧽: 🙂
Gotta cycle to get my train. But that was a blast. So happy I came here today!
Eibau. With 10 mins to spare.
Now trains via Dresden-Neustadt, Fulda and Mannheim to Saarbrücken
I managed about a minute talking to a very happy mayor of Seifhennersdorf, Karin Berndt, earlier
Not only did she work to get the train running, but she and the town administration and Trilex / Die Länderbahn put on a great event this morning
It was so good to go to this event this morning!
Final border crossings of the day. 🇩🇪 🇨🇿 🇩🇪
You can’t actually see where the border is here
#CrossBorderRail Extra Days Train 60
TL RB61 (76550)
12:24 Eibau - Dresden Neustadt 13:52
trilex - Die Länderbahn GmbH DLB
Distance: 84 km
Average speed: 57 km/h
Train type: Siemens Desiro Classic DMU, 2 carriages
⛽️
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (step free if station allows, on board ramp otherwise)
🛜: ✅
🍽️: ⛔️
🧳: 🙂
🧽: 🙂
A selection of the photos from Seifhennersdorf now on Flickr here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jonworth-eu/albums/72177720308553397
CC License, so can be re-used
The drone video of the train arriving has not been uploaded yet as wifi on trilex and DB trains is understandably too slow for such a big upload!
#CrossBorderRail Extra Day 07, 9 June - Berlin - Seifhennersdorf - Varnsdorf - Saabrücken
Uploaded from Mac "Pictures/Flickr/#CrossBorderRail Extra Day 07, 9 June - Bruxelles - Gent - Terneuzen - Sint-Niklaas - Bruxelles" on JW MacBook Pro 2017 13"
#CrossBorderRail Extra Days Train 61
ICE 1556
14:19 Dresden Neustadt - Frankfurt (Main) Hbf 18:36 (delayed to 19:10)
DB Fernverkehr
Distance: 496 km
Average speed: 116 km/h
Train type: ICE T tilting EMU, 7 carriages
⚡️
🚲: ✅ (with reservation)
🦽: ✅ (needs ramp on platform)
🛜: ✅
🍽️: ✅
🧳: 🙂 (overhead racks quite big, and some space between seats)
🧽: 🤔 (loads of toilets broken)
#CrossBorderRail Extra Days Train 62
RE 3 (29532)
19:25 Frankfurt (Main) Hbf - Saarbrücken Hbf 22:10
vlexx
Distance: 205 km
Average speed: 74 km/h
Train type: Alstom Lint, 2 x 2 carriages (I think— I was running for it!)
⛽️
🚲: ✅ (lots of space)
🦽: ✅ (needs some ramp - it’s for 55cm platforms and Frankfurt is 76cm)
🛜: ⛔️
🍽️: ⛔️
🧳: 🤔 (too few overhead racks, although those there are are quite deep)
🧽: 🙂
Getting very German here
Everyone’s arguing if a couple of bikes are allowed on in Ingelheim
Because they want to show they’re right rather than actually solving a problem, as is the German way
Just *move a bit* - there are seats in the non bike part of the carriage
I spoke to MDR in Seifhennersdorf earlier. They wrote a nice report, and included one of my drone pictures https://www.mdr.de/nachrichten/sachsen/bautzen/goerlitz-weisswasser-zittau/bahnfahren-varnsdorf-zug-tschechien-urlaub-100.html
And finally here’s today’s summary from a rowdy Saarbrücken https://urbanists.video/w/sJ1bFDtMabmRMrB6GmUX6y
#CrossBorderRail Extra Day 07 Summary
tops@jon glad you made it to your destination in the end
Defizit oder Eugen Brochier@jon
Seifhennersdorf rulez
Seifhennersdorf rulez
Oliver Schönrock@jon
There are plenty of pedantic people everywhere...
And yes, they are annoying
Konzertheld@jon Wonder how and when Germans acquire that behaviour. Don't see it in (very) young people.
karlnepomuk@jon I live in Eibau 20Years ago. 
Tom@jon you are living my dream.
Graeme Hilton@jon Another plain weird European border!
@jon passing through Neustadt about twenty minutes before you arrive
@tops where are you heading today?
@jon hoping to get to Brussels. I don't think I'm going to make it. Dresden to Leipzig train is cancelled.