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Show threadGarry KeenorMay 25
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.
Show threadGarry KeenorMay 25
Bit of tamping action outside of my window, should keep @GarethDennis happy
Show threadGarry KeenorMay 25
Train #7 is the 2029 sleeper from Stuttgart to Zagreb. 15 hours of lovely comfort ahead!
Show threadGarry KeenorMay 26
Good morning from South East Austria! Slept well, train bang on time. Woke up to this - this is what the sleeper is all about
Show threadGarry KeenorMay 26
Oh, the views
Show threadGarry KeenorMay 26
Into Slovenia...
Show threadGarry KeenorMay 26
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?
Show threadGarry KeenorMay 26
New cute engineering maintenance vehicle just dropped
Show threadGarry KeenorMay 26
Zagreb! And only 10 late on a 15 hour journey. Fantastičan!
Show threadGarry KeenorMay 26

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

Show threadGarry KeenorMay 27
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.
Show threadGarry KeenorMay 27
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!
Show threadGarry KeenorMay 27
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.
Show threadGarry KeenorMay 27
Actual train #14 is another new EMU for the journey back to Zagreb.
Show threadGarry KeenorMay 27
Train #15 is another EMU for the journey out to Harmica and back.
Show threadGarry KeenorMay 27
Nice example of stitched simple equipment here on the mainline towards Ljubljana. Improves dynamic performance at higher speeds, but more complex than sagged simple equipment, which achieves the same goal.
Show threadGarry KeenorMay 29
Trains #16 to 20 are yet more trams as I visit the museum of contemporary art and the science museum in Zagreb. As a special treat, here is a video of me leaving the art museum by the official exit - a spiral slide!
Show threadGarry KeenorMay 29
Found this Absolute Unit in the Zagreb science museum
Show threadGarry KeenorMay 29
Train #21 is the 1840 Zagreb - Munich sleeper, which I'm taking in seated accommodation as far as Sevnice
Show threadGarry KeenorMay 29
New Cutest Engineering Train just dropped
Show threadGarry KeenorMay 29
Train #21 is the 2038 Sevnice to Ljubljana. The seats on this were awful; they would give any UK seat a run for it's money.
Show threadPalmAndNeedleMay 29
@25kV they should start a club 
https://norden.social/@PalmAndNeedle/111743840573062387
Show threadGulf Of Mexico Keir HardieMay 29
@25kV this guy wants a word
Show threadMike KnellMay 29
@25kV Wearing the crossed shorting poles, symbol of the International Union of Railway Electrical Workers.
Show threadTane Piper ⁂May 30
@25kV @onepict I think I saw something similar a couple of nights back shooting a large UV light in to the air (I assume checking the pylon line)
Show threadSarah WilsonMay 29
@25kV It makes a change from a gift shop, I suppose.
Show threadnameless Cat PöñíçkøvāMay 27
@25kV lol that caged footbridge
Show threadGarry KeenorMay 27
@pony I know, right? Crazy stuff
Show threadMartin GleadowMay 27
@25kV reminds me of the engineering tenders you used to get in UK bus fleets, repurposed from retired or damaged buses.
Show threadConor O'NeillMay 27
@25kV
Here's an electrical maintenance vehicle which I photographed just last week, in the railway museum in Riga, Latvia.
Show threadGarry KeenorMay 27
@tpuddle nice! With the platform on mounted on insulators for hot working 😱 saw a similar one last year in Chomutov
Show threadceridwen15May 28
@25kV i love it (trains with facial expressions and trains that look like bugs are the best trains)
Show threadJon WorthMay 27
@25kV Ah! I have only been the other side there. Might you give me permission to use that pic on the #CrossBorderRail website? Here's a nice drone pic of the bridge I took!
Show threadGarry KeenorMay 27
@jon yes of course! Added another one you might like to use. Great pic
Show threadThe Penguin of EvilMay 26
@25kV Zagreb was the first place I got to see a tram-jam. The transport there is wonderful.
Show threadHugh 🚐 WHY 📞 4844May 26
@25kV Looking very stylish! Those long OBB sleeper services are awesome - jealous of your FIP 😉
Show threadHans Zelf 🇪🇺🌻May 26
@hugh @25kV This doesn't look like an ÖBB sleeper though 🤔
Show threadHugh 🚐 WHY 📞 4844May 26

@hans_zelf @25kV It's the EuroNight (specifically EN40237): https://www.nightjet.com/en/komfortkategorien/euronight

I always consider them part of OBB, who sell the tickets. They are operated by various European railway companies though.

EuroNight Trains

Additional night trains throughout Europe in cooperation with partner railways.

Nightjet
Show threadMike KnellMay 26
@25kV I’m sorry but nothing is cuter than the SBB class 922 tinyshunter.
Show threadsimonbpMay 27
@m @25kV Yes
Show threadEmma DavidsonMay 27
@25kV @m I have a new life goal:
become a tinyshunter. I don’t even know what they do, but that’s what I want to be when I grow up.
Show threadRob van KanMay 27
@m @25kV why do they hunt tinies?
Show threadJos DingjanMay 27
@m @25kV The Buddy of locomotives.
Show threadWill DeakinMay 26

@25kV this has strong "More Cowbell" vibes but for 25kV*

* other voltages may apply

Show threadRémi CardonaMay 26

@25kV it's like fixing potholes, but above your head.

In all seriousness, is it *that* bad? Or just indicative of poor preventative maintenance?

Show threadGarry KeenorMay 26
@remi in the time they took to install this they could have spliced in a new section. It's not great
Show threadLionelBMay 26

@25kV

Switzerland 2.0. Don't jaywalk.

Show threadGarry KeenorMay 26
@lionelb thanks for the tip!
Show threadAndrew LovickMay 26
@25kV Simply gorgeous.
Show threadTwobiscuits🚴‍♂️ May 26
@25kV you're here in Graz?
Show threadGarry KeenorMay 26
@twobiscuits no, continuing to Zagreb. Then back to Ljubljana in a few days.
Show thread🇨🇦️Dracula🍁May 25
@25kV That looks like a high-speed train. I'll have to take a trip to Europe and check out those trains.
Show threadHans Zelf 🇪🇺🌻May 25
@countdracula @25kV The sleeper is not a hst, the previous ones are (300km/h)