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Today starts at Estació de França for a #Rodalies freebie to Tortosa. It beats lugging my bags to the Hife bus stop on Avinguda Diagonal later on.
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Today's fauna at Estació de França. I am a bad gricer, can't tell you what they are or if it's a full set but it must be close if not.
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BLOOD ON THE DANCEFLOOR
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While we're waiting... these (or one of their sisters) were the very first #RateMyBuffers
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I don't think a train has left for nearly an hour now. #Rodalies
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I'M ON THE TRANE

(bonus SMUT edition)

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I'M ON ANOTHER TRANE

Change of rolling stock. Current delay: 1h 04m and counting.

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... and we're off.

1h 07m late.

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It turns out it wasn't a change of train but a cancellation. Now at Sant Vincenç de Calders waiting for an onward connection.
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Refresh rate on the #Rodalies screens won't let me show you that it was 1400 on platform 4 but 1358 on the adjacent platform 2.
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While we're waiting, here's one of the pair of dual-gague lines at Sant Vincenç de Calders. The standard gague is positioned away from the platform, no non-Iberian gague passenger service anticipated here it seems.
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I'M ON ANOTHER TRANE. I think this is the 1315 from Estació de França. I'd considered this service yesterday but opted for the (cancelled) earlier departure to mitigate any potential disruption. 🤦🏻
Feb 20 at 2:21pmWeb
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Great day for an #Hife outage. (The bus company that operates the final leg of today's journey.)
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Arrived in Tortosa 2h45m late (or 45m if you only count the train I ended up on rather than the cancelled one I intended to be on). Running the trains for free certainly avoids the admin overhead for all the refunds that must be very common right now.

Connected successfully with my onward bus with just a minute or two to spare. Might have missed it if I hadn't known where I was going, to sit at the front of the train, &c.

The Hife site is (still) down... for the drivers as well... passes are not working... bought a ticket... can reclaim next week... they say... a ver...