Chris lore

[brittle remnant]

People playing the harry potter tune

It doesn't even look particularly cool

Just big

[cinder lichen]

it's jsut your average bridge really

[brittle remnant]

I've crossed prettier bridges on this line

No not average

Sub par

[cinder lichen]

it's only famous for the steamtrain shot

[brittle remnant]

It doesn't look like it's masonry work

[cinder lichen]

Nairn viaduct south of inverness is similair

[brittle remnant]

It looks like a concrete slab

[cinder lichen]

just a bit less dramatic surrounding

[oblique adder]

damn still looks like winter there

[cinder lichen]

scotland.. its always winter there

[oblique adder]

was nicer when i was there

but even then it's not that special to like half the bridges you find on random branch lines in the alps

[brittle remnant]

Like I said this is a bad bridge

Even removed from how overhyped it is

[oblique adder]

but its a nice line

esp around corrour

[brittle remnant]

It's a very good line

[cinder lichen]

i was so underwelmed by the bridge i think i neve renve shared this photo's

that was september and eveythign already was pretty brown and greyish (the colours were taken up a bit in photoshop..)

[brittle remnant]

There's like a hundred tourists taking pics from the outside too

[brazen mantle]

it’s Harry Potter so it’s cool

[cinder lichen]

yes. it seemed the only place with betaald parkeren in schotland.

[brittle remnant]

I didn't know that the "harry potter bridge" was on the line to Mallaig

but when I told my colleagues I was gonna go take trains in Northern Scotland they were like "Oooh Are you gonna be on the fooking harry potter bridge???????"

Like idfk idfc

[cinder lichen]

this part of scotland is kinda overrated, because its highland but still fairly south and reachable.

you wanna go north of ullapool

[brittle remnant]

No i don't

[oblique adder]

i thought you were going to thurso

[brittle remnant]

No?

I'm going to Edinburgh tomorrow

Not going further north than Inverness

[hushed umbra]

line to wick is really nice

but does take very long

[brittle remnant]

I'll definitely be back in the UK some time in the future

[oblique adder]

yeah esp the middle part where youre going inland

[cinder lichen]

Lairg area yes

nice

[brittle remnant]

An important part of what I was hoping to do this time around was meet some people and so some trains

The Far North line never crossed my mind

[hushed umbra]

when it comes to scotland I only want to do the Oban line and the kyle of lochalsh line

[oblique adder]

kyle line was very nice

still need to do oban

[oblique adder]

thurso had the cheapest hotels of the entire highland when i went lmao

[cinder lichen]

jsut do all the highland lines. there are not many anyway

[hushed umbra]

for true norf I want to do S&C, Carlisle - Newcastle, Stranraer, cumbrian coast, whitby (pickering), Windermere branch

[hushed umbra]

I have done the rest already

for fake norf I want to do
all peak district lines

for Wales I want to do the
valleys, fishguard and milford haven, aberystwyth, phwelli and holyhead

and the remaining branches in cornwall and devon

[cinder lichen]

sinas 100% uk

[hushed umbra]

this is far from 100% uk

nothing in east anglia, nothing in south east and missing a hell of lit in the midlands and false norf

[cinder lichen]

we should lowestoft area

[hushed umbra]

and I should consider finishing the tyne metro

[brittle remnant]

Behold: The Atlantic

[hushed umbra]

fresh

[brittle remnant]

Better colour at Mallaig

[formal quarry]

Highland lines good

[brittle remnant]

Change of the Guard

[brittle remnant]

It fookin wimdy

[clear escarp]

cal mac my beloved

[oblique adder]

lmao

[brittle remnant]

Girls here at the bus stop trying their luck at hitchhiking

[cinder lichen]

every singlw person i spoke with that worked/been behind the passenger areas of calmac boats say they are old worn dangerous pieces of crap that shouldnt be allowed at sea. but the inspection kinda look away because otherwise the scotish isles are in great trouble.. and the new boats been on order forever already.

[cinder lichen]

join in.

[clear escarp]

yes

[brittle remnant]

Didn't seem to work for them

They walked off after a few minutes

Stagecoach Bus 52 Armadale-Broadford 17:15-3 - 17:37

Bus only took cash

I no longer have a Scottish £5 note

[brazen mantle]

funny

[brittle remnant]

This is on the 2023 timetable

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Citylink bus 917 Broadford - Kyle of Lochalsh 18:25+10-18:46

[brittle remnant]

Got the entire place to myself

The problem with an 8 bed hostel room is I can only really sleep in one

[stable cloak]

You can maybe schuif them together

[brittle remnant]

The kitchen doesn't have a stove

Just 2 microwaves

[brazen mantle]

oh it’s a hostel

[oblique adder]

get noodles

[brittle remnant]

Dutch people in this Hostel

[clear escarp]

you should crosscountry on this trip

your only opportunity to do this

[brittle remnant]

I haven't reserved a seat

[clear escarp]

you should

and hope there are children in them

[hushed umbra]

So that is why Ian's curry is so good

[brittle remnant]

ScotRail Kyle of Lochalsh - Inverness 6:11-8:50

[formal quarry]

Based

[brittle remnant]

Good line

[cinder lichen]

chris hooglanden

[brittle remnant]

Now approaching Inverness

[cinder lichen]

are you going south direct or over aberdeen?

[brazen mantle]

doesn’t Inverness have binnendoor ICs

straight to Perth

[hushed umbra]

Chris 158

[terse bison]

Chris 170

[hushed umbra]

Is he going via aberdeen or the direct line?

[terse bison]

Direct

[hushed umbra]

Both are nice tbh

[terse bison]

Highland Mainline is more pretty

But the coastal Aberdeen is good too

I am forcing him off at Perth to make sure he isn't going via Stirling and going over the Forth Bridge and Fife Coast instead 😛

[hushed umbra]

Dundee - waverly also good

[terse bison]

Aye he'll do that minus the Dundee end bit

[hushed umbra]

Develishly good

Tay bridge is cool tho

[terse bison]

Aye

Can't give him everything in one go, mans already seen Kyle, West Highland and Seatttle Carlittle

Otherwise he wont be back

I need his EU euros

[hushed umbra]

Will you join him?

[terse bison]

ja

im intercepting him at Perth ;p

[hushed umbra]

Oooohhhh

[terse bison]

you did get a hst innit?

[hushed umbra]

Yash

Sadly it was poorly timed with a lot of rugby fans

[terse bison]

Don't worry, there is always Mexico...or Nigeria now as well

[hushed umbra]

But i did have a nice conversation with some about AI

[hushed umbra]

Have you seen the interior for the nigerian ones?

[terse bison]

I cried

[hushed umbra]

Chris would love this

[terse bison]

I think they did the same with the Talgo thing from USA? uff

[hushed umbra]

Most autism friendly thing in africa

[formal quarry]

really good

[stable cloak]

They'll run as metro in nigeria i Believe

[brittle remnant]

Oh I would've missed the 4th bridge?

That's no good

This place stops at a place called Kingussie

[brazen mantle]

were you not aware of this

[brittle remnant]

No

And I planned poorly I guess

I was like ah yes more time in Edinburgh but that came at the cost of not going via Burntisle

Scotrail Inverness - Perth 9:42-11:55

[formal quarry]

Kingussy

[terse bison]

dont worry, I got you

Will you be trying to say Pitlochry in Gaelic?

[brittle remnant]

Unlikely

I heard people speak Gaelic in Kyle

I also heard people speak Dutch there

Truly a multicultural society

I like how the ticket inspectors say every placename different from how I do it Perth has a pronounced R apparently

[brazen mantle]

they’re just Scottish

purple burglar alarm

[terse bison]

I say Purrth cause I'm all englishish, but to say it right it is Pearth like pear + thhh

[brittle remnant]

I did /pə:θ/

She did /pɛɹθ/

"This stop of 4 score and 7 years is a planned stop and won't affect our arrival time"

[brittle remnant]

This ages long stop isn't scheduled, will affect our arrival time, and doesn't get an announcement

[hushed umbra]

Puple bugla alam

[brazen mantle]

yeah that’s how I would imagine Scottish people realise Perth

[terse bison]

But where is Chris

[oblique adder]

theyre quite small

easy to overlook

[brittle remnant]

Bri'ish trains innit m8

[terse bison]

Ack aye

Our chariot to Edinburgh has already started it’s engine

[formal quarry]

https://tenor.com/view/gone-reduced-to-atoms-thanos-gif-22903506

[hushed umbra]

Ride like the wind!

[cinder lichen]

B

[stable cloak]

baal

[brittle remnant]

Oh how I missed sirens

[brazen mantle]

what

[brittle remnant]

Lots of weewoo going on in Edinburgh

This was also a constant thing in London

[brazen mantle]

oh bad

[formal quarry]

ased

[brittle remnant]

LNER Edinburgh - Darlington 7:30-9:26

Very long announcement saying everyone's ticket is invalid, so is yours, you'll get a fine

[brittle remnant]

Map up to this point

[cinder lichen]

nice

[minor cave]

Good map

[brittle remnant]

Northern Darlington - Shildon 9:55-10:13

[brittle remnant]

Alright time to check what time the train to York runs

[cinder lichen]

maglev car with a truck hitch

or would this be a pod and not a car

[oblique adder]

chris 100% maglevs

[brittle remnant]

This requires going to an industrial estate in California

[brittle remnant]

More a pod really

[cinder lichen]

do it!

[brittle remnant]

I don't wanna go to the US

[brittle remnant]

It's a relatively small museum

Clear signs of the red line being painted over

So weird

[brittle remnant]

Northern Shildon - Darlington 11:32-1 - 11:53

[cinder lichen]

🚲

[brittle remnant]

LNER Darlington - York 12:02-12:29

[brittle remnant]

York railway museum time

Only a bit over an hour to get there

[brittle remnant]

It was alright

[brittle remnant]

Buienradar says it'll keep raining all day

[crystal forge]

welcome to the UK

[formal quarry]

https://tenor.com/view/seen-it-marty-back-to-the-future-ive-seen-this-one-gif-5960361

[brittle remnant]

York was nice

Northern York - Hebden Bridge 10:23-11:40

[brazen mantle]

I know a guy that’s a big fan of hebden bridge

[brittle remnant]

Tinny

He told me to go there

[brazen mantle]

max as well

[brittle remnant]

As in RandomRoman?

[brazen mantle]

hmhm

[oblique adder]

maq

[minor cave]

are ypu meeting him, this trip

[brittle remnant]

Nah he had to work

[minor cave]

shame

[bright kite]

Excellent Chris lore

[brittle remnant]

Northern Hebden Bridge - Manchester Victoria 11:57-12:37

[bright kite]

Are these trains any good by Chris standards?

The 195s

[brittle remnant]

They're alright

[oblique adder]

chris train pics are funny

[brittle remnant]

This one was moving and I wanted to get on & couldn't be arsed to take a better one

[brazen mantle]

i like them as well

[clear escarp]

is pilot still uncontactable?

[brittle remnant]

He's sick

He said

[formal quarry]

[clear escarp]

lies

[brittle remnant]

Transpennine Express Manchester Oxford Road - Piccadilly 7:26-7:29

Avanti Manchester Piccadilly - London Euston 7:35-10:16

[brittle remnant]

Damn the Eurostar terminal in St. Pancras is horrible

Not as much of a bunker as Brussels tho

But it's way under capacity

[brittle remnant]

9142 Pancras - Midi 15:04-18:05

[brittle remnant]

9142 Pancras - Midi 15:04-18:05

Guy next to me reading Flemish news

[brittle remnant]

Rain :(

[brittle remnant]

Brussel metro time

Low floor spanish solution

MIVB Zuid - Noord 18:29-18:40

It's a well-used metro

My train to Antwerp will do Zaventem

9263 Brussel-Noord - Antwerpen Centraal 18:56-19:42

Wajoo this train has bins with every seat

The UK could never

Dam

French announcements with a Dutch accent instead of the other way around

[cinder lichen]

nice centraal avoiding lol

[brittle remnant]

Thanks

[brittle remnant]

The Zaventem bypass takes 939393933 hours

So bad

[cinder lichen]

huj?? the bypass is much more direct?

[brittle remnant]

As in the one that goes via

Busy platform for the Roosendaler

Turns out these trains have a 1st class that's perfectly identical to second class elsewhere

2569 Antwerpen-Centraal - Roosendaal 19:50+1 - 20:38

Overfull on a 3+2

So much fun

[oblique adder]

why are you going via Roosendaal?

[brittle remnant]

Breda HSL aansluiting is fucked

So this is the fastest route according to the reisplanner

[oblique adder]

right

ok so

Brusselaar was diverted via Roosendaal

you didn't need to change

[brittle remnant]

No

Brusselaar decided fuck it we're going straight to Rotterdam

That's what the announcement said

I cannot conjure into existence any other information other than what drops out of the reisplanner and the conductor roeps om

[oblique adder]

it's in the Roosendaal departures

[brittle remnant]

I could not have known

[oblique adder]

but yeah the works into just says doesn't stop in noorderkempen and breda

bad

last time they did say it stopped in roosendaal

[hushed umbra]

Nmbs fault

[brittle remnant]

Reisplanner also doesn't know

This is forbidden Eldrich knowledge that only those who happen to know know, surely with the sole purpose of making me feel bad about a thing out of my control

[oblique adder]

You got to window hang now

[brittle remnant]

I don't care

I'm sitting on the corner of a 3+2

It's a miracle I can even sit

Rechts rijden to let the Eurostar pass

+6

[brittle remnant]

Sure looks like a Thalys to me

https://trainlog.me/public/trip/52344,52335,52111,52113,52112,52110,52109,51503,51502,51298,51296,51290,51289,51288,50925,51287,50467,50416,50354,50353,50352,46258,50355,48548,48546,48545,52346

3229km without metro's

[cinder lichen]

quite amazed how little time that highland loop took.

[hushed umbra]

True speedrub

[formal quarry]

Last time I checked, when I went, the true speedrun was actually making it back to Glasgow on the same day by taking a train immediately from Kyle of Lochalsh, but I couldn't make that anymore because my ferry didn't run

[brittle remnant]

Why make it back to Glasgow

What does that accomplish?

[cinder lichen]

max idiot

[brittle remnant]

I needed to be in Edinburgh

[formal quarry]

A speedrun

you could've at least made it to Inverness on the same day iirc

[brittle remnant]

No I literally couldn't have

I took the first train, the first boat and the first bus

I don't think there was a train to Inverness

If there was I would've had literally no view to enjoy

[oblique adder]

Scotland speedrun gang

[brittle remnant]

I enjoyed an entire afternoon in both Glasgow and Edinburgh

I don't feel like I rushed it that much

[cinder lichen]

when will you speedrun highlands by car though

[oblique adder]

No plans

[minor cave]

Driving in Scotland sounds pretty good but also bad

Single track roads

[cinder lichen]

100km of single track roads are very fine and fun.

but this is chris lore

[clear escarp]

You should do this

[formal quarry]

Maybe different timetable now then, my plan was to take the first train + ferry + bus on Isle of Skye and then the first train to Inverness, but couldn’t follow through because of high tide

[oblique adder]

https://trainlog.me/public/trip/12977,16749,39875,12974,12972

10/10 plan would do again

[royal python]

Mevrouw

[bright kite]

It is just so awful and crowded

Former goods depot

[brittle remnant]

Yes

And the train's already on the platform

And they're not cleaning it

Just let people on the train

[bright kite]

Gare du Nord is marginally better

[brittle remnant]

Gare du Nord isn't useful between the Netherlands and the UK

[bright kite]

Once you're through border control why not make it like just a normal train

Why corral passengers like cattle to the only train in the station? To make it more airport like? I hate airports for this very reason

[brittle remnant]

A bunch of British stations also kinda do this

[hushed umbra]

Euston is the same shit

[brittle remnant]

Same with Inverness and Glasgow Queen Street

[fair bear]

ironically I once took a Thalys from Brussels to Paris to change for London. It's not logical, but did it anyway as I was supposed to be in Paris, but ended up not being there when I booked Paris - London

[brittle remnant]

4473 20:28-21:21 Hertogenbosch ('s-) - Helmond Brouwhuis

[oblique adder]

omg&gggg

[brittle remnant]

4417 7:26-7:30 Helmond Brouwhuis - Deurne

3517 7:36-7:58 Deurne-Venlo

[cinder lichen]

chris loor

[brittle remnant]

Eurobahn RE13 Venlo-Hamm 8:05-10:34

[brittle remnant]

Toch naar Hagen

Of toch nieet

[cinder lichen]

hagen, dat moet je durven wagen

[brazen mantle]

wel lekker gewoon drie uur aan een stuk op dit toestel

[cinder lichen]

hmm

dat valt wel mee toch

[brittle remnant]

Eurobahn RB 89 Hamm-Paderborn 11:46 - 12:40

[rich hatch]

dit kan wel in een flirt

[brittle remnant]

Nordwestbahn RB85 12:53-13:57 Paderborn Hbf-Bodenfelde

@minor cave stoptrein Oost Duitsland

[minor cave]

Thank you

[brittle remnant]

DB RB81 Bodenfelde-Nordhausen 14:16-16:15

[brittle remnant]

HSB 89106 Nordhausen-Nord - Stiege

[brittle remnant]

HSB 8968 Stiege - Alexisbad 17:28+30-18:19+30

[brittle remnant]

But first steken

8916 alexisbad - harzgerode 18:30+20-18:40+20

[brittle remnant]

Rewe is gay

[brittle remnant]

HSB 8962 Harzgerode - Quedlinburg 8:47-10:15

[cinder lichen]

😍

[brittle remnant]

Abellio RE11 Quedlinburg - Halberstadt 10:33-10:49

[brittle remnant]

Abellio RE4 Halberstadt - Wernigerode 11:04-11:20

[brittle remnant]

HSB 8903 Wernigerode - Eisfelder Talmühle 11:57-13:56

[brittle remnant]

HSB 8914 Eisfelder Talmühle - Hasselfelden 14:01-14:35

[brittle remnant]

HSB 8915 Hasselfelde - Alexisbad 14:39-15:39

[brittle remnant]

HSB 8962 Harzgerode - Quedlinburg 8:47-10:15

[brittle remnant]

Abellio RE 11 Quedlinburg - Halberstadt 10:33-10:49

[brittle remnant]

Abellio RE 4 Halberstadt - Goslar 11:04-11:52

[royal python]

Rewoke

Rip those ns logo's soon

[brittle remnant]

DB RB 82 Goslar - Kreiensen 12:36-13:11

[brittle remnant]

Nordwestbahn RB84 Kreiensen - Paderborn 13:23-15:05

[brittle remnant]

National Express RE11 Paderborn - Soest 15:15+5-15:41

[brittle remnant]

Eurobahn RB 59 Soest - Unna 16:06-16:28

[brittle remnant]

S4 Unna Hbf - Dortmund Dorsfeld 16:38-17:18+2

[cinder lichen]

perfect fitment

[brittle remnant]

S2 Dortmund Dorstfeld - Essen Hbf 17:21-18:06

[brittle remnant]

RE42 Essen - Vierssen 18:45-19:26

[brittle remnant]

Eurobahn RE13 19:33+31-19:56+?? Viersen-Venlo

[brittle remnant]

3778 Venlo - 's-Hertogenbosch 20:33-21:36

[brittle remnant]

https://trainlog.me/public/trip/54905,54904,54903,54902,54901,54900,54899,54898,54897,54896,54895,54894,54893,54892,54891,54890,54889,54888,54887,54886,54885,54884,54883,54882,54881,54880,54879,54395

[oblique adder]

thief

[brittle remnant]

Yes

Orange fluff on the floor at the bus station

[oblique adder]

not me

[hushed umbra]

Putdeksels

[brazen mantle]

@royal python kijk uit

[royal python]

So beautiful

[royal python]

Ik word nerveus van deze beelden

[royal python]

@oblique adder ik snap nog steeds niet waarom je me hierover bevraagde

[oblique adder]

:3

don't worry about it

[hushed umbra]

Data collectie

[cinder lichen]

chrisfeet.zip @minor cave

[royal python]

You know this will haunt me until february 18th 2055 but this is fine legal allowed and dealable

[cinder lichen]

good item to fap. in NL they often come from Tegelen, this is were AGMI is gevestigd.

TBS putdeksels komen echter van het "Technisch Bureau voor gietijzerproducten Soest" en zijn wijdt versprijdt door nederland

also putdeksels are cool

i should found putdekselforum.nl

i got a small collection of putdeksel foto's

[hushed umbra]

Weegels weert is also very common

Altho they made more stoeprand afvoerpurtjes than actual putdeksels as far as i know

[cinder lichen]

tsb is most common

[royal python]

Tegelen mentioned 🥰🥰🥰

Ewals Cargo Care, my favourite trucking/logistics company is also gevestigd there

[royal python]

They really are

And it's cool how many designs there are and how incredibly long they can last

[brittle remnant]

Minor lore today

Somehow the Hoflijnboog slipped through as not yet done

I've done metro E tho

[brazen mantle]

the what

Gvc Laa?

[brittle remnant]

J

[brittle remnant]

Change of plans

I intended to do this to rek time because I needed to be in the hospital between 18:00 and 20:00 to visit my grandma

No longer need to rek time

So I'll do it sooner

Laa is a stupid stationsafkorting

[minor cave]

Indië fappers

[rich hatch]

de oost

[minor cave]

Veel plezier

[brittle remnant]

1855 15:03-15:15 Gvc-Ldn

[minor cave]

Ledn*

[brittle remnant]

Oh

[oblique adder]

leiden C

[brittle remnant]

Anyway Netherlands 100% is now done

Time to home

8857 15:23-16:06

[brittle remnant]

@royal python

Assen en Meppel

[formal quarry]

Chris viert Hemelvaart in Meppel

[brittle remnant]

Ik vier niets

[stable cloak]

Meppel heb ik al ingestuurd jongeman

[brittle remnant]

En toch doe ik het

[formal quarry]

Chris bestaat tijdens Hemelvaart (een verder normale donderdag) in Meppel*

[brittle remnant]

Nee dit is zondag

[formal quarry]

Hemelvaart is vandaag?

[brittle remnant]

Ja

[brittle remnant]

Good haltes

[brittle remnant]

@royal python hoogeveen

[royal python]

Dank

[formal quarry]

groene waterstof
tekst is blauw

[brittle remnant]

Blauwe waterstof is leuk

"carbon capture"

[brittle remnant]

Luik - Charleroi 3832 10:24-11:42

[brittle remnant]

Today's map

[stable cloak]

Nice map

[brittle remnant]

Lore time

[brazen mantle]

SGB

how much is this

[brittle remnant]

€12,35

They should've done a funny and made it 1 cent cheaper

[stable cloak]

Hmmm

1 minute goes overstap

[brittle remnant]

It's free with a museum jaarkaart but I don't have one

[stable cloak]

No, -1

[verbal mantle]

Meeting Chris at Museumspoorlijn

[stable cloak]

Did you pay full day ticket?

They have afternoon tickets

[brittle remnant]

This is the afternoon ticket

[stable cloak]

Or 1/2 class

[brittle remnant]

I got 3rd

[verbal mantle]

https://tenor.com/view/i-have-two-nickels-nickels-doofenshmirtz-phineas-and-ferb-dr-doofenshmirtz-gif-26627596

[stable cloak]

The ones i bought were €9,50 p.p

[brittle remnant]

???

[stable cloak]

Oh i fucked up lol

[verbal mantle]

Smh

[stable cloak]

I bought afternoon singles

[brittle remnant]

L

Veel plezier in Hoedenskerke

[stable cloak]

But I'm curious to what train you'll take

[brittle remnant]

The 15:00

[stable cloak]

I guess 15:00 but with gemiste overstao safety

Yeah

[brittle remnant]

I didn't wanna do diesel heen en terug

Also didn't want an hour in Hoedenskerke

[stable cloak]

So you have 40min now then?

[brazen mantle]

you should have told me this

II genuinely would have probably come with you today

[brittle remnant]

Ah well

[brazen mantle]

are more museum railways covered by this

[brittle remnant]

I think maybe Boekelo

[brittle remnant]

Tbf I reckoned saying anything about it would just invite ridicule, so I didn't

Especially because I wasn't sure if I wanted to go at all

[brazen mantle]

fair

actually idk why you think that

[brittle remnant]

Because I'd be the retard paying full price to go on a random kettle

[brazen mantle]

I guess so

idk we don’t shame for the map percentages

[brittle remnant]

Sophie has mocked either me or someone else about the ridiculousness of doing this

So that's not true

3641 Ht-Rsd 12:42-13:33

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maybe you shouldn’t take that to heart so much but idk

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Maybe

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2234 Rsd-Goes 13:36-14:16

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Lots of pretty long stops on this line

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Poor timetabling

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Quite

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This is why you have one place centric timetables keeps the stops tight

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what

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SGB 35 Goes-Hoedekenskerke 15:00-15:32

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not hangable

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Balkonhangen

SGB 36 Hoedekenskerke - Goes 15:53-1 - 16:25

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enjoy

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It's more hangable than the steam train would've been

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omCs are also just nicer

frankly more historically interesting then any steam train they will have

I assume it’s also relatively modern german stuff at least

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There's also nothing in Hoedekenskerke and Wouter & Kyan were taking this one

So by all accounts this was just better

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hm this was owned by the DSM at some point

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Cool

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Also this doesn't have screaming kids

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yes this is why I don’t like museumspoorlijnen

harz really only had this from quedlingburg to the foot of the brocken line

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i should get museumkaart

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hmm

I like them

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I did consider getting one but I couldn't be arsed

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3666 Rsd-Ht 17:57-18:49

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chris niet gereet

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?

Oh

Basically to get one I would've had to go to some museum that sells them

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Very goed

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Map updated

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Very nice

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trent valley line

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dit is een nare lijn

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Tbf I'm not super sure about that one

But it's what I had on trainlog

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Did you stop at any of the following places?
Coventry
Birmingham international
Birmingham new street
Wolverhampton

If yes, then you didnt take the trent valley line

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I don't remember

Google maps has one point at Rugby and one at Armitage

Map seems to suggest anything other than Trent valley would've been silly

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Basel time

ICE 255 does not continue past Köln Hbf, from there we have a different ICE as a replacement service

My friend is already stressing

DB stress is for when shit gets cancelled right in front of your nose

Not this

Or when you cannot miss stuff

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Yes this is fine

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ICE 255 Den Bosch - Köln Hbf 8:39-10:50

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I mean what does it matter anyway

you’ll get to Switzerland eventually

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Ye

According to the conductor it's a same platform transfer of 5 min

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lol

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this is standard

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Nice Chris trains

I like that you're taking this from Den Bosch

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-10 M'gladbach

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goede zaken

kinda bad pad i think

this traject should have pretty betrouwbare rijtijd

also kinda bad they just have a platform in mgb where they can park an ICE for this long

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emmerich is closed so its just a mess

-10 is surprising but i guess you just gotta go for it if theres a gap

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maybe?

i guess all the capaciteit for kaldenkirchen dülken is just freight

and when there isnt freight you can just speedrun

juni will be big money and also early money because 23e is sunday

i normally make 13,03*13,27

i reckon i can probably get like 40 overuren this month maybe more

and also everything *1,08

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Good lore

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very Chris lore

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Oh cross platform

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Bluffed the reservation

We did get one

But it kinda got voided

They weren't very convinced but "funktioniert leider nicht" when they pointed out the screens did the trick

ICE 2885 Köln Hbf - Basel SBB 10:55+12 - 14:47

Oh they just announced it fully got voided

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We've been Basel Baded

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good

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Behold: Gleis 3 4

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leg uit

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ICE 73 Basel Bad - Basel SBB 14:48+9 - 14:55+4

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Ze zeiden dat we naar spoor 4 gespoorwijzigd werden

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Amazing Chris rit

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This is lovely

Thank you Chris I love you

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There were people in the way of the pic

SBB IC61 Basel SBB - Olten 15:28-15:55

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chrisfoto <3

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Ja

Good thing SBB doesn't do delays

We're still at Basel SBB

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SBB IC5 Olten - Lausanne 16:05-17:45

Delayed again

+7

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Very good lore

Enjoy being switzerland

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IR90 Lausanne-Vevey 17:50+3-18:03

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casa del brandon

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ic5 isnt very reliable yes

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IR90 Vevey-Martigny 10:36+2-11:09

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R91 Martigny - Riddes 11:18-11:28

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nice

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R91 Riddes - Martigny 14:31-14:42

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Good

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Nice

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IR90 Martigny - Vevey 14:48-15:23

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Plan for tomorow

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Bern

Good hf

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Innertkirchen Grimseltor

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IR90 Vevey - Montreux 7:36+2-7:41

PE30 Montreux - Zweisimmen 7:50-9:57

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Weeb train

Bordbistro

R11 Zweisimmen - Spiez 10:02-10:47

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wait what the hell is that thing

ive never seen that train

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It's a weeb train with a livery celebrating some collaboration with a Japanese railway in Zweisimmen

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yeah i get the livery lol

somehow that makes sense to me

but ive never seen that model of train either

where are you going today

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I'm doing a bit of a tour, optimising for narrow gauge

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right

the interlaken - luzern line is very nice

but honestly you can also just go into the berner oberland nowadays and its much nicer if the weather is ok

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The weather is shite

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it can be much nicer if you enter a different valley

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They predicted shite weather for the entire country

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BOB doesn't appear to be in interrail

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it is

since this year

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Ah

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so is the cable car lauterbrunnen - grütschalp

and the grütschalp - mürren railway

and the wengerbahn to wengen, but not beyond wengen

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Good to know for next time

IC61 Spiez - Interlaken Ost 11:04+3 - 11:28

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Bought 2 cups of spread thinking I'd need more than just 1 for my bread

Now I have 1,5 cups of spread and no more bread

R70 Interlaken Ost - Meiringen 11:33-12:07

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R71 Meiringen - Innertkirchen Mib 12:18+2-12:29

Annoying child here >:(

This train is comically wide

Standard gauge train on narrow gauge bogie

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Pupapupapupapupa

Station in a tunnel

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sgm

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Station Unterwasser is decidedly above water

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Same train R71 Innertkirchen - Meiringen 12:29+3-12:40+2

PE Meiringen - Luzern 12:41+1-13:55

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Narrow gauge dining car

Very cool

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EC178 Luzern - Olten 13:54+3-14:28

Ran for the negative transfer to save half an hour

Train delayed

:(

Interrail app really hates transfers that are technically speaking negative

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Chris swiss maxxin

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Rich man

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"Chris ist das richtig?" Interesting question from the conductor

He then didn't ask for any proof

IC5 Olten - Solothurn 14:40-14:56

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Olten 🤩🤩🚨🥶🔥 🇧🇷🇾🇹🧮🏳️‍⚧️👩‍✈️🫔

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Looked like it had a good knoop

I needed to get on a train just outside the knoop

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RE5 Solothurn - Bern 15:02-15:37

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IR15 Bern - Lausanne 16:04-17:16

Peak chris photo

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amazing

I was gonna ask why it's so dark and them I remembered that Bern station is just like that

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Ye

I don't like Bern

Dark

Loud

Got lost

Ugly

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This is good for km statistics

IR90 Lausanne - Vevey 17:21-17:35

Back in Vevey 2.5 hours sooner than the original plan

Gonna do the train to Les Pleiades real quick

R35 Vevey - Les Pleiades 17:41-18:19

Travelling on a weekday during rush hour

Very smart

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it's friday

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I fucked up autocomplete

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wait which train did you not take

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?

I didn't skip a thing

I left the house an hour earlier than originally planned, and then got 2 illegal transfers

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ah that explains

I got confused

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View from Les Pleiades

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I went back until Vevey Vignerons

Träwelling says 418km (which is wrong because it takes 2 trains as the crow flies) and 9h31m

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I'm confused how they do ERTMS with rack rail

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RE 33 Vevey - Bex 10:26-10:48

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R74 Bex - Barboleuse 11:02-11:32

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R74 Villars-sur-Ollon - Col-de-Bretaye 11:50-12:08

R74 Bouquetins - Col-de-Bretaye 14:34-14:38

R74 Col-de-Bretaye - Villars-sur-Ollon 14:45-15:07

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Also TVV between Barboleuse and Villars

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good

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R74 Barboleuse - Bex 15:20-15:57

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RE33 Bex - Vevey 16:12-16:32

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IR90 Vevey - Lausanne 7:24-7:39

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IR15 Lausanne - Bern 7:44-8:56

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IC61 Lausanne - Basel 9:04-10:01

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is that your IC

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ICE 370 Basel - Mannheim 10:13-12:24

I just wanna be able to do a last minute reservation but computer said no >:(

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Train too full

Was asked to get out at Mannheim

IC 2004 Karlsruhe - Mannheim 12:23-12:50

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Long transfer at Mannheim

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My IC to Mannheim btw

It wimdy

ICE 108 Mannheim - Köln 13:35-15:04

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Early

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Ok

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Negative skibidi Ohio rizz

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People are already getting up

It's still 10 minutes till scheduled arrival

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I might get RE13ed

RB27 Köln - Mönchengladbach 15:25-16:19

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Why not RE27

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Because reisplanner said RB

Also because it's RE8

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RE13 M'gladbach - Venlo 16:25+8 - 16:56

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very nice

[verbal mantle]

Oh yeah right

But the RE is nicer

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Ye but it doesn't run when I need it

Which is at a time such that it's faster than RB27

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Time to wait for half an hour at Venlo

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3766

this is normal

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Wayyy too many people at the platform

People waiting to get in in such a way people can't get out

Like 20 people were left behind

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Really on the venlovirm?

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No

On the RE13

Venlovirm isn't here

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Oh yeah this is normal

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Usually it's not properly impossible to exit the platform because of an endless stream of people

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Germans have no manners

The rule to let people out before you board doesn't exist there

It's a free for all

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The people right next to the door allowed people to get off first

Everyone else formed a barricade so people wouldn't actually be able to get out of the train

3766 Venlo - 's-Hertogenbosch 17:33-18:36

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Goed punt

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gewoon duwen

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ja

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I did

Got shouted at in German

But I wasn't really able to push against the flow of people who weren't yet waiting at any door

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sucks to be them

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Kanker

Arriva

Bus opgeheven

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F

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https://trainlog.me/public/trip/66507,66506,66331,66328,66327,66325,66321,66319,66317,66240,66238,66313,66304,66300,66291,66310,66236,66233,65943,65940,65938,65936,65935,65934,65929,65927,65926,65925,65921,65841,65840,65839,65932,65838,65837,65836,65835,65834,65833,65832,65831,65830,65829

2446km

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ok

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nice trip

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goed bezig chris

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This date for the Antwerp one is wrong but idk what it should be

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is dit iets waar wij mee kunnen helpen

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Unlikely

It's probably just wrong

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9271

i should take this more

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can anyone edit station names

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I think you need to edit them on OSM

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I think we can buy not sure

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we're not paying you to be not sure, go find out

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This Saturday the Roosendaal-Antwerp train will go through the port again right?

[stable cloak]

Yes

And Oost

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Very good

I will be doing that this Saturday

I still have some interrail left

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Doing this an hour later

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have fun

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Port of Antwerp time

Means I don't have the time to take a different route to Tilburg tho

No Liège Aachen HSL

I did consider Turnhout but TVV

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is there a good source for België tvv

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The NMBS app

Tho a few days ago DB wanted to tell me about it too

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hgbtf?

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Not anymore I guess

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nmbs app is just planner though right

no overzicht

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They have stations overzicht but no werkzaamheden overzicht afaik

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Oh like that

Ye that sucks

9469 3627 's-Hertogenbosch - Roosendaal 9:12-10:03

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https://www.belgiantrain.be/nl/travel-info/current/ongoing-disturbances-and-works/ongoing-works

en https://www.belgiantrain.be/nl/travel-info/current/ongoing-disturbances-and-works

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nice

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2581 Roosendaal - Antwerpen Centraal 10:21-11:32

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🥰

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Antwerp port time

Some other guy windowhanging

Heuvelen

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Love this place

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They do on the site

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Yesss Antwerpen-Centraal is great

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Now for the other side

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It really is just so good

I think while St. Pancras is better from the outside, the interior views of Antwerp just make it that much better

Sint Alvleesklier Internationaal just kinda looks like a mall from the inside

"Beste reizigers, de bestuurder z'n trein heeft wat vertraging"

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2562 Antwerpen - Roosendaal 12:29+7 - 13:38+3

Me using up an Interrail day to go to Belgium for an hour

But tomorrow is the last day my pass is valid

So I feel this is reasonable

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youre not going anywhere else?

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I need to be at my cousin's birthday party

And my original plans weren't possible because NS cancelled my train

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can still do Puurs line or smth

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I could've

Maybe I should've

It's a good one to get out of the way

They're doing the port loop in the same direction both ways

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yes

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Windowhanging really messes up your hair

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chris haar in de war

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fly nibbling

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3650 Roosendaal - Breda 13:57-14:15

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this is ns new cost saving measure to clean trains. have birbs nibble the front clean

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This is good

I want a pet kauw

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this is bad luck

get a dove

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Doves aren't fun

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we have a dove here for 3 weeks already. he is now named jimmy and shits everywhere

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They're just kinda stupid rats with wings

Jackdaws are intelligent, jolly creatures

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6648 Breda - Tilburg Universiteit 14:23-14:38

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Bus 3

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Dè 9314

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That's why it's good

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omlóóp 3113

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They're too dumb to get sad about being locked up

[cinder lichen]

sophie duivenvrouwtje

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Parrots need a shitton of attention

[cinder lichen]

parkieten though

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I'm more of an ekster persoon tbh

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eksters iew

bitte nicht füttern

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Yeah but what if you just have the one bird just vibing and thinking oh it's my favourite oversized monkey. No need to lock them up

But animals don't work like that outside of Disney movies

[cinder lichen]

dogs kinda do

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Ye but I'm not huge on dogs

You gotta take them on walks

They bark a lot

[cinder lichen]

idk my parents one never barks, she is weird.

we not sure if she even is able to bark.

only one other dog she sometimes meets and she deeply hates forever. she barks at if that one start bark to her

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Our dogs bark all the time

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Witnessing this was cool

Heuvelen is such a fun concept

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ew 4 digit omloop

[fair bear]

That's funny. I was there not too long after

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You pulled into the station as I left

[fair bear]

I saw the train leave

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The goal for 2024 is 40 000km by train in total

We have more than half of the year left

I'm at 20 088km

Long distance international trips this year:
29-05~02-06 SBB 2446km
10-05 Couvin 589km
26/27/28-04 Harz 1272km
13~20-04 UK 3231km
28/29/30-03 Bouzonville 1170km
16/17-03 Schengen 1113km
06-01 Spa 432km

I expect at least 8000km from commutes left leaving 12 000km in trips

If I do the Estonia trip that'd be another 4500kmish

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I also need to 100% Norway someday

Not sure if I wanna do that this year tho

[stable cloak]

100% Montenegro

Or Slovenia

Slovenia is very doable

Except 1 summer only border crossing

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Slovenia looks like quite a bit of work tho

[stable cloak]

Yeah but it's like 1,5/2 weeks of grinding

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Yeah but I don't wanna spend 1,5/2 weeks to grind on the other side of europe

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i dont think it would take you that long

i think some of these might be lies though

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defo

Matches this map quite well tho

Lithuania seems relatively easy as well

On par with Estonia I feel

Every single Baltic country seems easy enough to 100%

[stable cloak]

Only karlovac border doesn't have trains

Most trains to metlika, a couple spitstreinen to sevnica I think it was, 1 or 2 stations further towards the border

Rosalnice I meant

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https://eratorailtrips.blogspot.com/2024/03/getting-booze-in-bouzonville-28-30-mar.html

Finished the Bouzonville trip but it's not a super interesting read

Next I wanna make a thing about my Scandinavia trip from 2022

[cinder lichen]

still cool how i was literally sitting at the other end of platform on bench waiting for my train and we missed...

probably could even see me on foto it was turned a bit more left

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lol

ye

[rich hatch]

our parallel runs were pretty good

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Working on this is dangerous

Just makes me wanna go back

[rich hatch]

Maybe that's why I'm putting off writing my Scandinavia trip report

I wanna go baaaack

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jelle has site with trip reports?

[rich hatch]

no i wanted to put mine on forum

but i haven't ever bothered writing it

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Hmmm chris ritten

[formal quarry]

Make a Polarsteps Jelle

[cinder lichen]

make a basic html website alá fransmensonides and nicospilt

[formal quarry]

yes, this is good. you don't need css