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riding along with @eta, eggcat and friends today on ICE 25 :)

(image cw: food)

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Hello from ICE 25, on the BR 406 goodbye trip (_Abschiedsfahrt_)! this is really cute; they have a small little merch shop, and fun decoration for the trains themselves :o

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eva lauren, 🐸☂️Apr 10

🇳🇱 ICNG trains: comfy, very nice, also sounds like they have bagpipes attached to the motors

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eva lauren, 🐸☂️Feb 20

here’s my previous pfp in case anyone’s curious or confused

eva lauren, 🐸☂️Feb 20

trying out a cute new profile icon for a bit :3 🐸☂️

thanks @heyheymomo for drawing, and @eta for commissioning+the background! 💜

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eva lauren, 🐸☂️Jan 28

update on this: great success, I now have a version of ICE Buddy with (almost) full support for Transport for Wales trains in ICE Buddy, and probably also Lumo who use a similar system (but I haven’t tested yet), and basic support for most other trains in the UK(!!)

notable exceptions being timetables, as I need to do a *lot* of work to get allocations from unit numbers (on TfW and Lumo, I can just get the timetable from the shiny GoMedia portal which has live journey info and a nice JSON API)

eva lauren, 🐸☂️Jan 3

fun discovery of the day: the onboard Wi-Fi system on this SWR train I'm on was probably installed before it was refurbished

I was confused by the 'system ID' in the Icomera OmBord API as it didn't look like a carriage number, yet when I pasted it into RealTimeTrains to find it, no results

then I realised the 'system name' field has a slightly different number ...

turns out this unit was renumbered from a 450/5 (Wikipedia tells me with a 'high capacity' interior?) to a 450/0 when refurbed!

eva lauren, 🐸☂️Jan 1

happy new year from eggcat

eva lauren, 🐸☂️Nov 18, 2024

Hello from Waun-Gron Park, where I’ve just hopped off one of the first runs of the new South Wales Metro tri-mode class 756 trains … running on the overhead wires!

review: basically the same as the class 231 diesel FLIRTs they’ve been running for a while, but *so* much quieter

eva lauren, 🐸☂️Sep 8, 2024

TIL (or rather, re-discovered) that the lids on paper smarties tubes actually have a latching mechanism to keep it closed

this little tab next to the opening is reasonably stiff and gets caught in this catch inside the lid

it only works a few times but apparently a tube is meant to be 2 servings so i suppose so

nifty

eva lauren, 🐸☂️Jun 24, 2024

this evening’s escapades: starting the not-insubstantial prep work in anticipation of getting fibre installed at my flat on Wednesday — 1.8Gbit down, thanks to @faelix

due to layout issues, the only good place for the Openreach ONT (for now…) is in the living room, requiring a fibre run some 10m from the exterior wall, through a staircase!

scheme: remove (and put back) some panelling/boards, in order to install flex conduit

(landlord’s happy as long as it’s neat and tidy)

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