For reference: Follow up interview/analysis with Magnus Olofsson from KTH/Resenärerna at 78:42. Pretty harsh criticism regarding claimed comfort and economics of these carriages (and thus risk of high ticket prices and potentially killing the concept).
More details about today’s announcement of Talgo coaches for Swedish night trains in this radio interview (at 44:55)
- Coaches by Talgo
- Locos by Siemens
- Three comforts: 4-bed, 2-bed with wc/shower, and some fuzzily defined solo compartment
- Same capacity as today’s fleet
- Claim of ”high comfort”, but focusing on temperature and sound insulation and wifi
- Of course they say they think it will run as promised in 2030
@stefanlindbohm I hadn't used Railfinder in a while and _damn_, it's so good now? I tried some of the routes it had failed on in the past and a couple new ones and it gave me complete, sensible options? I just... looked at them and went "Yupp, that is the reasonable way to do it" for basically each one?
Massive kudos, this is a game changer ~~the only game where...~~
Update on SJ’s new trains & connection to Copenhagen:
• The new 250 km/h Avelia Stream Nordic (ex Zefiro Express) will be called X250 by SJ. Estimated for timetable 28 (December 2027). First on Gothenburg - Copenhagen.
• New CAF regional trains will be class X45 and start replacing current X40 on Gothenburg - Stockholm, maybe starting as soon as December this year
• Reintroduction of X2000 Stockholm - Copenhagen is pending Danish approval for the upgraded trainsets
Today working on support for self-serve refunds on Railfinder*, and I finally cracked the last boss of building a multi-ticket booking platform: how the hell to solve after sales with multiple tickets. We will finally have a tech architecture + UI that MAKES SENSE and is future-proof!
Just needed to share. Thanks for listening 🤓
*Refunds will allow some significant news that have been held back. And yes, booking fees will be refundable (for the portion of the booking that is being refunded).
My minigolfing of regional rail branding across Europe continues, and now we show train names/brands across the Netherlands on Railfinder! And as a bonus we now also show line numbers where we have that data.
Big thanks to @partim for explaining the systems-within-systems for how NL regional rail is organised & marketed. Saved quite some research!
If you see any train branding/names/lines that’s off (in NL or elsewhere), I always want to hear that feedback for my next minigolfing session.
”Anything under 2 hours late to Sthlm we consider on time”
Well, I guess today we were just about slightly delayed.
Loving BahnBet – can we get a dedicated EuroNightBet maybe?
It could have fun sub-bets like ”how long will the train preparation delay end up being actually” (it increased in 30 min increments in Berlin), ”will we gain or lose time between Hamburg and Padborg”, ”how many platform changes will there be”, ”will coach numbers be sequential or random order”, etc. Infinite potential!
Posting about the lack of Talgo 230 on EC to/from Copenhagen in another group was great nerd sniping. Now I know:
- One DB IC1 coach group still in use on some departures
- IC3 trainsets with Indusi/PZB lack ERTMS and have to go the old 180 km/h line in Denmark + max 160 km/h in Germany
- Maintenance workers still learning how to work w Talgo coaches
- Some problems with Talgo 230 and connection to the locos with random error codes
- Some departures even with bilevel coaches + replacement bus
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