Garry KeenorSo... it's that time of year again, I'm off on a Moderately Sized Adventure™. Train no.1 is from East Croydon to London Bridge. Why doesn't Thameslink run this early on a Sunday? (I travelled here last night as a positioning move.)
I should explain why this Adventure is only Moderately Sized... unlike previous years, I will be spending quite a lot of time broadly stationary, because Reasons. I'll be taking no further questions on this topic your honour 😎
Train #4 and the trip gets started in anger... 0901 St Pancras International to Bruxelles ( I'll be getting off at Lille)... my first time bagging Seat 61!
Train #5 is the 1205 Lille to Paris Gare du Nord InOui double decker TGV. Lovely ambience on first class upper deck
After a long, fantastic, boozy Parisian lunch, train #6 is another InOui double deck TGV on the 1553 Paris Gare de l'Est to Stuttgart.
Bit of tamping action outside of my window, should keep @GarethDennis happy
Train #7 is the 2029 sleeper from Stuttgart to Zagreb. 15 hours of lovely comfort ahead!
Good morning from South East Austria! Slept well, train bang on time. Woke up to this - this is what the sleeper is all about
Oh, the views
Into Slovenia...
Is your catenary stranding and at risk of failure? Why not just clamp another piece of catenary to it and get on with your day? What could possibly go wrong?
Trains #8, 9 and 10 are trams as I explore Zagreb. Frequent, clean, safe, cheap. As usual, navigating this small European city is super easy with a combination of Google maps and the local tram app. Why can't the UK do more of this?*
* This is a rhetorical question, I know why. And it's all so stupid
Trains #11 and #12 are more trams. Train #13 is this handsome, modern EMU from Zagreb to Volinja (and return to Sunja) pictured here at Volinja. I'd have liked to have gone further and crossed the border into Bosnia-Herzegovina, but guess what? There aren't any trains. No #crossborderrail for me @jon. The onward line across the river Una to Bosnia is on the left beyond the train.
Just time to jump out at Majur on the return leg and take this picture of the new Cutest Engineering Train™. Check out the My First Pantograph Gauge!
Train #14 is... a bus! 🤦 Not sure why, given we recently passed over the open railway, but this will take me from Sunja on to Sisak Caprag.
nameless Cat Pöñíçkøvā@25kV lol that caged footbridge
@pony I know, right? Crazy stuff