Jon WorthHow many sides of Mainz would you like to see?
DB: yes
Ah this is what has buggered everything up https://www.presseportal.de/blaulicht/pm/14915/5834425
A truck has hit a bridge on the rail line to Darmstadt
A passenger was just really rude to a DB staff member here about the delay
It was a 🛻 striking a bridge! You can’t blame DB here! FFS
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Train 2/10
RB 51 (12432)
14:34 Karlsruhe Hbf
14:52 Wörth(Rhein)
13.2km
44km/h
DB Regio AG Mitte
Train type: Talent DMU 3 carriages
⛽️
🚲: ✅ (lots of space)
🦽: ❓ (entry too low in Karlsruhe you’d need some ramp inside - how?)
🛜: ⛔️
🍽️: ⛔️
🧳: 🙂 (lots of space, multi use areas)
🧽: 😐 (grimy and worn)
No puns. The umlaut makes all the difference. #CrossBorderRail
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Train 3/10
RB 52 (81471)
15:19 Wörth(Rhein)
15:36 Lauterbourg
12.5km
44km/h
DB Regio AG Mitte
Train type: 628 DMU, 2 carriages
⛽️
🚲: ✅
🦽: ⛔️
🛜: ⛔️
🍽️: ⛔️
🧳: 🙂
🧽: 🙂 (it’s old but neat)
And yes, a knackered non disabled accessible DMU is being used for the #CrossBorderRail service here - because the new trains ordered… aren’t running yet
And might well not run for some time
Which is exactly why I’m here
Ah. The road German side is being resurfaced. But the tobacco shop is open. So that’s ok.
So…
13 (of the 30) 4 carriage brand new Régiolis trains for France-Germany #CrossBorderRail operation found parked up at Lauterbourg
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Train 4/10
TER30735
17:40 Lauterbourg
18:38 Hoenheim
c 50km
c 52km/h
SNCF for TER Grand Est Fluo
Train type: Régiolis bi-mode 4 carriages
⛽️
🚲: ✅
🦽: ❓ (train is fine but stations barely have platforms)
🛜: ⛔️
🍽️: ⛔️
🧳: 🙂
🧽: 🙂
And I know why it’s called Bienenwaldbahn 🐝
There are lots of bees in the flowers on the track! 🙂
Edit: oops it’s the Bienwaldbahn. Not Bienen. My name is better 🙂 Thanks @giggls for the correction though!
This Lauterbourg - Strasbourg line is infuriating. The speed is ok - it serves a lot of small towns. But most of the stations are awful and not accessible and the trains too irregular… so rail doesn’t have the modal share it deserves here! #CrossBorderRail
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Train 5/10
TER830568
21:10 Strasbourg
21:47 Haguenau
33.9km
?km/h (wasn’t meant to take it!)
SNCF for TER Grand Est Fluo
Train type: Régiolis Bi-Mode 6 carriages
⚡️initially, ⛽️ later
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (step free)
🛜: ⛔️
🍽️: ⛔️
🧳: 🙂
🧽: 🙂
For those asking about the details of the Régiolis discovered earlier #CrossBorderRail
Today and tomorrow for #CrossBorderRail I’m using my spare Birdy
It’s in better condition than my main one, the expedition rack with Vaude bags works well, but it has hub gears and back pedal brakes - not my favourite for touring
But given it cost me just €150 I can’t complain (I added extras costing probably €80)
Here’s this evening’s #CrossBorderRail summary video https://peertube.netzbegruenung.de/w/5RUAFKCR84BufwvEXSe97s
#CrossBorderRail South East Europe 2024 - 7/31/2024, 8:46:12 PM
And damn I’m tired and annoyed
How the HELL do France and Germany manage to spend €376 million of public money on 30 #CrossBorderRail trains but LEAVE THEM SITTING AROUND - and possibly for another 3 and a half years! - rather than RUNNING THEM?
Ok. New day. Calm morning. So I’ll cycle Haguenau - Reichshoffen instead of taking the train #CrossBorderRail
Let’s see how many Régiolis I find today! 🙂
The Régiolis hunt continues
I need to check all the pics but I think I’ve identified 7 more here in Reichshoffen
So that’s 2/3 of the 30 strong fleet I’ve located
Edit: no, there was 1 more. 8 in Reichshoffen. So that’s 21 total I’ve located
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Train 6/10
TER32911
09:47 Reichshoffen Ville
10:06 Haguenau
18.2km
61km/h
SNCF for TER Grand Est Fluo
Train type: Régiolis bi mode 6 carriages
⛽️
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅
🛜: ⛔️
🍽️: ⛔️
🧳: 🙂
🧽: 🙂
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Train 7/10
TER30521
10:18 Haguenau
10:45 Mundolsheim
?km
?km/h
Change of plan - wasn’t meant to take this!
SNCF for TER Grand Est Fluo
Train type: AGC DMU, 4 carriages
⛽️
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (step free)
🛜: ⛔️
🍽️: ⛔️
🧳: 🙂
🧽: 😐 (grimy and worn)
And there are 2 #CrossBorderRail Régiolis in Strasbourg (1 in the middle of this pic)
This brings the totals to
13 Lauterbourg
8 Reichshoffen
2 Strasbourg
So I’ve located 23 of the 30 strong fleet of these trains
That’s enough for my purposes now…
And here’s the current #CrossBorderRail service Strasbourg - Offenburg
3 🐋 rail buses when run by SNCF (1/3 of services), just 2 RS1 rail buses when run by SWEG (2/3 of services)
And today it was *packed* with Interrailers
Ah #CrossBorderRail tariffs
My Grand Est Carte Fluo ISN’T valid to Kehl (first German station) and Deutschlandticket ISN’T valid to Krimmeri or Strasbourg French side
And Strasbourg or Krimmeri Meinau to Kehl is €4,90. Krimmeri - Kehl is just 6.7km…
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Train 8/10
SWE RB 25 (87431)
13:22 Strasbourg
13:55 Offenburg
28.8km
52km/h
SWEG Südwestdeutsche Landesverkehrs-GmbH
Train type: Stadler RS1, 2x 1 carriage
⛽️ (despite electric line)
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (step free)
🛜: ✅
🍽️: ⛔️
🧳: 🙂 (v good overhead racks)
🧽: 😐 (grimy and worn)
Ah Bundespolizei *with an automatic rifle* getting on and checking passports at Kehl. I did cross the border, the dude opposite me got on in Kehl. Who’s going to get checked? 🤔#CrossBorderRail
Ah no. They hopped off right before departure. But this is all damned silly - there’s so much cross border traffic at Strasbourg-Kehl (by car, tram, foot, bike) you can’t check it all. This is wasting police resources for a bit of security theatre. #CrossBorderRail
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Train 9/10
RE 7 (5337)
14:36 Offenburg
15:15 Freiburg(Breisgau) Hbf
62.7km
96km/h
DB Regio AG Baden-Württemberg
Train type: Siemens Desiro EMU, 2 single deck and 2 double deck carriages
⚡️
🚲: ✅ (lots of space)
🦽: ✅ (step free into single deck)
🛜: ✅
🍽️: ⛔️
🧳: 🙂 (single-double mix works well)
🧽: 😐 (grimy, needs a thorough clean inside)
Lukas 🎢 🇩🇪@jon step free into single deck, but wheelchair area and toilet is in the double decker part! 🤡
@K1ngdaKa88 hmmm. So… you still need a ramp?
@jon depends on which station (Platform height) or if you want to use the Bathroom or not during your journey. 🤡
@K1ngdaKa88 Ah. So at a 55cm Platform (there are some here) you go in the double deck. But if you then try exiting at a 76cm platform station…? 🤔
@K1ngdaKa88 the Desiro HC in Nordrhein Westfalen has the disabled access in the single deck part I think. It’s possible!
@jon yess, it would be possible if the deciding persons wanted it to happen. But I guess they could save a few € and got a Bonus or something, idk. 🤡
Rens@K1ngdaKa88 @jon @bwegtBW Ask DuckDuck-infraGo why not all platforms on one line are the same height?