Jon WorthJun 14, 2025

Welcome to today's thread - 2025 #CrossBorderRail Finale Day 7 - 14 June - Rzeszów - Berlin - Köln - Bruxelles

Today's new borders:
None

Borders map, inc. borders re-crossed:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-all-the-borders_935041#12/52.3268/14.5754

Today's trains on the routes map:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2025-finale_1163738#7/51.307/13.173

Show threadJon WorthJun 14, 2025
A long way in a day - from Rzeszów in south eastern Poland, crossing Germany, to Bruxelles in Belgium. No new borders, but it will no doubt be an interesting day, not least to observe improvements to the rail infrastructure in southern Poland.
Show threadJon WorthJun 14, 2025

Here's today's #CrossBorderRail music track

Deutsche Bahn
Wise Guys

Not the greatest work of music, but it makes you laugh! And I no doubt will face some of the problems later!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXjhszy2f9w

Wise Guys - Deutsche Bahn

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YouTube
Show threadJon WorthJun 14, 2025
And here's today's #CrossBorderRail intro video, filmed earlier in Rzeszów before boarding https://peertube.netzbegruenung.de/w/kJ34epfrogPwsqvh3xcwFk
#CrossBorderRail live stream - 6/14/2025, 3:54:33 AM

PeerTube
Show threadJon WorthJun 14, 2025

#CrossBorderRail Finale Train 33 of 152
EC 56
06:10 Rzeszów Główny - Berlin Gesundbrunnen 15:13
PKP IC

Train type: Siemens EU44 Taurus locomotive, 8 carriages
⚡️ (3kV dc, 15kV ac)
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (lift or ramp on board, not step free)
🛜: ⛔️ (installed but broken)
🍽️: ✅
🧳: 😐 (narrow doors and corridors, OK once inside)
🧽: 🙂

🎫 Interrail: 😐 (needs compulsory reservation for cross border section, costs €3 from ÖBB)

Show threadJon WorthJun 14, 2025

EC 56
06:10 Rzeszów Główny - Berlin Gesundbrunnen 15:13

Distance: 743.9km
Average speed: 82km/h

19 stops:
Dębica
Tarnów
Bochnia
Kraków Płaszów
Kraków Główny
Katowice
Zabrze
Gliwice
Kędzierzyn-Koźle
Opole Główne
Wrocław Główny
Legnica
Lubin
Głogów
Zielona Góra Główna
Rzepin
Frankfurt/Oder
Berlin Lichtenberg
Berlin Gesundbrunnen

This train, mapped: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2025-finale_1163738#8/51.179/18.273

Show threadJon WorthJun 14, 2025

Agggh, someone in the compartment is typing on their phone and with the tap-tap keyboard noise on, something I do not understand the purpose of.

Is is socially acceptable to ask the guy to set his phone to silent?

Show threadJon WorthJun 14, 2025
Also it's weird how irritating the tap-tap sound from a phone is, presumably because - unlike a physical keyboard where every sound is a fraction different, because it's physically generated - the sound of the phone "tap" noise is precisely identical each time.
Show threadJon WorthJun 14, 2025
When he got loads of notifications that then pinged very loudly, that was the moment to intervene 😀 Now all silent here, apart from light tapping on my MacBook Air physical keyboard!
Show threadJon WorthJun 14, 2025
Legnica - Zielona Góra - Rzepin is now the weak part of the Kraków - Berlin route. vMax just 120km/h, and infra obviously poorer quality. But given ongoing investment across Poland’s network this too will no doubt be improved soon.
Show thread波鉄 (Hatetsu)
@jon Meanwhile people are complaining about one direct Wrocław-Szczecin train being routed via Poznań when that's simply the faster route right now...
Jun 14, 2025 at 11:26amWeb
Show thread波鉄 (Hatetsu)Jun 14, 2025
@jon Incidentally, Wrocław-Zielona Góra is a rare route where cross-region rail was straightened out recently, with through connections operated by KD between the two voivodeship capitals every couple of hours (but no Takt) that previously required changes in Głogów. While this is probably better than the original idea of reciprocal through running with Polregio in terms of passenger comfort, reading about it felt like watching ugly political empire-building