Chris lore

[brittle remnant]

There's plenty of options in de oost

[brittle remnant]

Fascinating

My railjet seat reservation didn't come with a seat

[stable cloak]

Cool

[brittle remnant]

RJ 88 9:01-14:27 Verona Porta Nuova - München Hbf

Why are we not moving

Every once in a while the locomotive shakes a bit

We're moving

+13

Right

Locomotief omlopen

Why have push pull when you can just not

[cinder lichen]

isnt it that the pushpull operation isnt yet approved in italy

[brittle remnant]

I don't know

Show the conductor my supplement

"Perfeeect"

[brittle remnant]

First time on a train in Austria

Border police not asking for my passport

Probably because I'm white

[oblique adder]

chraannames

[brittle remnant]

Why else are they here

If not to do pp check

And if they do not pp check why must that be

Conductor voice. This guy is on his last fucking legs

[cinder lichen]

lots of times they just walk through trains without checking

Same on arrival from Slovenia on border they were just on platform looking to everybody but no one got checked incl the black people not

These people are pretty well trained to spot weird behaviour and nervous ess etc.

only place i've got 100% passport checks on train few times was france.

they will also pick if you have liek weird or rediculous amounts of luggage

[brittle remnant]

Right

[cinder lichen]

you seem lucky going via austria and not swiss. swiss trains is a mess due to snow apparently

[brittle remnant]

Yeah I was just thinking that

German police doing the same now

Ja kut

ICE from Münich has been cancelled due to high demand

En dan jonge?

Gvd 0 IQ land dit

Anyway time to plan an alternative for me

[brazen mantle]

go Nuremberg I guess

[brittle remnant]

I'm not gonna just ball it with the margins I have

[oblique adder]

people responsible for railway safety when a train gets cancelled for safety reasons:

😡

I'm not seeing any cancelled trains in the app

[brittle remnant]

Where are these people going? Fucking Narnia?

The next train is gonna be even busier

[oblique adder]

yeah so your train isn't cancelled

[brittle remnant]

Then the fuck does that mean

[oblique adder]

reading generally helps

no more zugbindung

[brittle remnant]

Treinverbinding

That's what they do

[oblique adder]

binding

not verbinding

people with a ticket for that train can take different trains

[brittle remnant]

Oh this is french for honat

Right

Well I'm sorry for not knowing everything

You'll be delighted to know that this will never end

[oblique adder]

that's why reading helps

[brittle remnant]

I did read sophie

But apparently you don't

[brazen mantle]

lol

[hushed umbra]

chris read, but didnt understand

[brittle remnant]

Screens on the train have decided to no longer show delay

[brittle remnant]

This will never stop being funny

It do be snowy here in Münich

Anyway time to trek to my ICE if I can get on

Either reservations broke or I have a seat

ICE 622 München - Düsseldorf 14:47-19:44

I might stay on this until Düsseldorf

Oh I'm gonna plan a bit harder

This was what I was given yesterday

[oblique adder]

Oh yeah a train detailed between Aachen and düren so the ice goes via mgladbach

[brittle remnant]

I did read something like that

[stable cloak]

oh nice

[brittle remnant]

This also would've been a 12 min planned transfer at Frankfurt

Which

Lmao

Okay I'm staying on till Düsseldorf

[oblique adder]

It's so cool

Arnhem Venlo Heerlen crossings all fucked

[brittle remnant]

Travel advice is RE4 to Herzogenrath

[oblique adder]

Nijmegen bus from Kleve might actually make sense now

[stable cloak]

sittard bus

no this never makes sense tbh

[brittle remnant]

[minor cave]

Oh you're going back overland

[cinder lichen]

bussen
🥰

[brittle remnant]

This is never faster but always more miserable

[brittle remnant]

Yes this was always the plan

[cinder lichen]

germany jsut defaults to misery

[brittle remnant]

This is true

So let's not get buses involved

It's bad enough already

[brazen mantle]

i wonder if walking across the border kan uit ever

but yeah SB58 might genuinely make sense for you

[brittle remnant]

Yeah except it doesn't

The reisplanner does give this non-advice

[brazen mantle]

cool impassible line

[cinder lichen]

WALL

[brittle remnant]

The transfer at Düsseldorf to Kleve is before the transfer to Herzogenrath

Tighter connections in Germany not a good idea

And then it arrives later

So it would only make sense as an alternative but because it departs earlier it doesn't work as an alternative

Oh I just realised Interrail wants me to take the RE19 that doesn't run

[brittle remnant]

Going bordbistro now because they're predicting it's gonna be incredibly busy after this until I arrive

They only have fucking cake

No other food

Not even sandwiches it seems

I was hoping to have food before 20:00ish when I arrive in Düsseldorf

I already ate all my bread tho

Still have strawberry jam and a spoon

[cinder lichen]

https://tenor.com/view/deutsche-bahn-thank-you-travelling-gif-25985432

[brittle remnant]

Ye I looove DB

[brittle remnant]

Oh

We just got yoinked to +90

Okay bordbistro has closed now

But a guy really wanted to get rid of a pastry

I'd hoped to get some water

So at least I had some food

Announcement "maybe we don't +90"

[brittle remnant]

Another announcement but I'm not sure what they were saying

I think it's about the derailment in the direction of Aachen but I'm really not sure

[brittle remnant]

I'm gonna use the missed transfer at Düsseldorf to get food

Hoollld up

[brazen mantle]

lmao

see this is why Germany just works

[brittle remnant]

This will save massive time

Big if true if you will

[brazen mantle]

yes non stop mgb to ht

[brittle remnant]

Mhm

[brazen mantle]

id say worth a shot

[brittle remnant]

This is somehow only an hour faster than RE18

Oh definitely

[brazen mantle]

an hour is a lot

[brittle remnant]

I'm home an hour sooner, and I don't have to hope 4 tight transfers work

To be fair most of them are in NL, and I'm mostly worried about the RE18 running at all

You know how they are

[brazen mantle]

even by Arriva standards this is a very unreliable service though

this is partially why I didn’t wanna go via liege to or from lille

[brittle remnant]

Exactly

i also have some options to be in M'gladbach earlier

[brazen mantle]

nice nice

[brittle remnant]

My dad is getting slightly stressed from the updates I think so he's like why not just get a place to sleep somewhere in Germany and make this tomorrow you's problem

1. A&O aachen is probably the cheapest option as it wouldn't take an extra interrail day but if I can make it there I can make it home
2. This bullshit is kinda the fun of Deutsche Bahn

It's like a puzzle

3. I'm so fucking close

I didn't travel 1200km in a day to give up because the solution for the last 150km is not going smooth

[brazen mantle]

I think your dad is just a little pessimistic

[brittle remnant]

The prospects of this being an option are actually exciting

I'm especially not giving up now

[hushed umbra]

I was supposed to be on 622 last weekend, but shit happend

[brittle remnant]

Rip

[brittle remnant]

Düsseldorf time

I'm going to RE13

[oblique adder]

Enjoy tvv

[brittle remnant]

They got really good TVV between NL and M'gladbach

It's an ICE +2h

[royal python]

Nice

[brittle remnant]

Spoorgewijzigd

[oblique adder]

I assume you'll miss that somehow mgl

[brittle remnant]

We'll see

If the ICE isn't a real option then I can always continue to Herzogenrath from M'gladbach

Eurobahn RE 13 20:48+15 - 21:11+? Düsseldorf - M'gladbach

[oblique adder]

Ah youre on an earlier one

[brittle remnant]

Ye

I decided to improve my chances

I reckoned my best odds were to get food and then hop on the first train to M'gladbach

I wasn't feeling those 9 minutes either tbf

[oblique adder]

Ices make up delay too

But yeah then you should be fine

[brittle remnant]

Hadn't even considered that risk

Same platform transfer let's go

It's cold here

[brittle remnant]

It sould probably have been fine

It should've entered the station but the sign has added half an hour

That was a calculated risk ngl

I think it's just gonna sit here for half an hour?

Oh we're moving anyway

Er is herres bij Kaldenkirchen

[oblique adder]

gevierst

[brittle remnant]

ICE 254 20:03+124 - 21:36+150(?) M'gladbach - 's-Hertogenbosch

[brittle remnant]

Hotel or taxi time

Took all of like 12 minutes to strand in Viersen

[oblique adder]

surely you can get home

[brittle remnant]

Probably

[oblique adder]

or are you still stuck

[brittle remnant]

I'm still on the train

We're at the platform tho

[oblique adder]

still in viersen?

[brittle remnant]

Ye

[oblique adder]

lol

teringbende

[brittle remnant]

If they drop me at Ehv I'll also make it

I don't think Venlo is reasonable

Lovely one for trainlog; ICE M'gladbach - Viersen

[oblique adder]

you got kicked out?

[brittle remnant]

There was an announcement

They're gonna see who needs to go where so they can arrange taxis and hotels

I don't think we're going further than this

[oblique adder]

lol

[brittle remnant]

I do wonder if there's genuinely 0 chance we're leaving Viersen but whatever

"Je mag gaan roken"

Duurt iig nog ff

Oh they're expecting the train to start moving again

Didn't say when tho

Announcement cleared up the taxis are for connections from Ht, Ut or Asd

[oblique adder]

will you taxi

[brittle remnant]

I have a bike at Ht

This would be inconvenient

[oblique adder]

free taxi tho

[brittle remnant]

Yeah but it costs me an extra hour at least

Just not today

[oblique adder]

lmaooo

just take that taxi my dude

[brittle remnant]

Too late

[stable cloak]

gtbv

[brittle remnant]

Yes I also need to do that for the Trenitalia stuff

Bordbistro is free

Imma go see what's still in stock

Asshole opened the door during an announcement

Oh we get buses

First bus 40 min from now

[oblique adder]

buses where

[brittle remnant]

Ht

[oblique adder]

to?

[stable cloak]

I think to Ht

[brazen mantle]

awesome

cool Chris adventure

nice how just getting an RE probably would have gotten you home already

[brittle remnant]

Leesvaardigheid

Buses to Ht

[brittle remnant]

It wouldn't have

[brazen mantle]

not via Heerlen?

[oblique adder]

mn vraag was vanaf waar je in een bus gezet werd

Maar je had dus gewoon net zo goed de bus re13 kunnen pakken

[brittle remnant]

Ja maar daar communiceren ze niet genoeg voor

Ze blijven net genoeg hoop geven

[brittle remnant]

Nope

That would've been 0:30ish

[royal python]

jezus this sucks

kut db

[oblique adder]

nah this is funny

Get a hotel

[brittle remnant]

Sophie out here just saying funny words that have no relation to the real world

But yeah it kinda is funny

[oblique adder]

they literally offered

just say that since then the delay has gotten so much worse that you need one now

[brittle remnant]

The conductor didn't ask if you needed a hotel or a taxi

They asked where I'm going

[oblique adder]

yeah so you tell them

last connection at den bosch gone

need hotel

[verbal mantle]

Chris can sleep in the ProRail office

[brittle remnant]

They'll arrange a taxi then

I can't they close at 21:00

[verbal mantle]

The Ht one

[brittle remnant]

I don't have the clearance

[verbal mantle]

Sad

[brittle remnant]

Also the plan was always to cycle home in the middle of the night

That was the plan from the moment I left home

[oblique adder]

what the fuck

[brittle remnant]

I knew what I signed up for

[oblique adder]

you can still avoid it

[brittle remnant]

No

Because I don't have a bike at home

It's at Ht

Kicked out

"buses at the front of the station"

The station building is closed

[brittle remnant]

Surprising literally noone

We were all not at the front

First bus direct Asd

[brittle remnant]

Where second bus

[brittle remnant]

I'm on a bus

We were only stuck here for 4 hours

[brittle remnant]

SEV Viersen - Utrecht(?) 2:25-4:25

Kanker DB

Quick maffs 4 AM Ut, 5 AM Ht, 6 AM home

K⚓ DB

[brittle remnant]

Ut is in zicht

Bus is reversing

Flixbus halte

NS says it's not their problem but they're gonna see what they can do

They're arranging stuff for us

Conductor essentially said the OV service would be open, but no

Saw a group of V&S people I made it their problem

There were supposed to be busses to Den Bosch too but I hear after us the next bus was 45 min later and still not destination Den Bosch

[brittle remnant]

They're arranging taxis for us which is nice

[brittle remnant]

I'm still at Ut

[brittle remnant]

Taxi Utrecht 5:55-6:55

Dropping off 2 others

One in Nieuwegein

One in Deil

Nieuwegein guy lives on a boat

[brittle remnant]

Taxi driver was utterly surprised that I needed to go to a place that is not Deil

Apparently they didn't put it in the system correctly

Yet another point for Murphy's law on that one

[brittle remnant]

I'm fucking home

Fuck allat

Fuck DB

[fair bear]

Most disappointing

[oblique adder]

at 8am

Fucking hell lmao

[brittle remnant]

I wanna fucking kermit

[brazen mantle]

insane

I think if you had waited in Utrecht for the first train you would have been faster

[royal python]

Jezus fucking christ

🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂 this is a true ov nightmare

[cinder lichen]

bus kleef. xD

[minor cave]

You could've also gotten like a 30 euro flight and be home in an hour or two

[brittle remnant]

It wouldn't have

I thought of this

Would've cost me another hour and a half

[oblique adder]

This probably works on weekdays but not Saturdays

[brittle remnant]

Ye

[brittle remnant]

I also wanted to take trains across the alps

This is part of the experience

[brittle remnant]

Yup

Bears mentioning that there were a variety of options that with the available information would not have been the optimal choice

They told us we'd continue by train, they stopped saying that after the last trains and buses from Viersen home had already left

[royal python]

Honden

[brittle remnant]

I should look into international lore potential for December

[minor cave]

100% lokaltog

[cinder lichen]

100% noordjutlandse spoorwegen

of middeljutlands

[brittle remnant]

Hmmm Danmark

[oblique adder]

hypothetische lore

[brittle remnant]

https://trainlog.me/public/tag/1d4e95c7-eb5a-4db1-a535-f53d5f563bbf

This was pain and suffering

[oblique adder]

taxi should be logged as car imo

[brittle remnant]

I did that at first

But then it gave me a new slider option

And it didn't put it in the list by default

And fuckallat

[brazen mantle]

taxi shouldn’t be logged as a car I think

[brittle remnant]

Also this wasn't private taxi

[brazen mantle]

basically

it’s public transport

[brittle remnant]

This was shared vehicle with driver operated by NS

[brazen mantle]

purple just means road public transport

this is essentially an 8 persoonsbus ICE SEV

[brittle remnant]

it was a car

so 4

[brazen mantle]

voor de wet is dit hetzelfde

[brittle remnant]

Hier ga je voor de wet geen 8 mensen in krijgen

maar verder ja eens

[brazen mantle]

schoot

gewoon stacken

[oblique adder]

debatable

[brazen mantle]

I think this isn’t that debatable here

but then like should you log buurtbussen as autos

because they’re autos

[oblique adder]

no

buurtbus is a bus

public timetable, can pay with ov chip

[brazen mantle]

chris taxi is ICE254

just very vertraagd

[brittle remnant]

Yes

This is just SEV

This was covered by interrail

[oblique adder]

disagree

[brittle remnant]

No public timetable because that's not how SEV works

[brazen mantle]

the public timetable is just the ICE254

[oblique adder]

no

this is like my NS taxis

this is just a taxi

but enjoy being wrong

[brittle remnant]

I know you enjoy being wrong

Night

[royal python]

I do agree with this

This is ov

[rich hatch]

no

[cinder lichen]

team taxi.

[brittle remnant]

I'm at 38 392km
I have 480 km of commutes left

1 128 km of lore is required before the end of the year

I just have to do lore that's not Benelux

[brazen mantle]

good luck

I guess another weekendje Italië

[royal python]

Skill issue

But also yes good luck

[stable cloak]

I need 3267 more km including commute and excluding germany multi day trip to double my most km in a year

[brittle remnant]

Many good options in de oost

[stable cloak]

No budget tho

For me

For you probably yes

[brittle remnant]

De oost hostel €14

Thereabouts

Thinking maybe Bratislava, maybe also Kosice.

Kosice is more expensive tho

[formal quarry]

De oost

[brittle remnant]

Travel advice Kosice - Netherlands sends me through Budapest

[brittle remnant]

Bonus country

[verbal mantle]

Kosice - Poprad is very nice

I would recommend also going Poprad

Day ticket for the mountain railway is only 4€

[brittle remnant]

I don't plan to stay in the country for too long

I have to shoehorn it in between Christmas and New year's

[verbal mantle]

ah alright

[formal quarry]

😳

[hushed umbra]

Why u going to kosice

I wanted to do this, cheapest option via prague

Get zssk sleeper

[brittle remnant]

Idk

Seemed like a fun place to go

Didn't give it much thought tho

Haven't booked yet either

[brazen mantle]

it’s kinda nice but not that cool

[hushed umbra]

this is liek if you were to inflate weert 2 times

mate of mine has internship in kosice

and he described it like this

[brazen mantle]

the Main Street is very nice

but that’s kinda it yea

[brittle remnant]

Hmm

I could also just 2 nights in Bratislava, after second night go see Vienna and just nightjet home

[brazen mantle]

I mean the train to kosice is fun

both ways around imo

Budapest is a truly great city I think

[brittle remnant]

yeah but it's late december so it'll be dark out for most of it

[formal quarry]

Vienna is good

[brazen mantle]

just take the train to as close to the equator as resonably possible I guess

[minor cave]

And if there were Slovakian people and different buildings?

Tokyo is kind of a large Weert too

[royal python]

I love this message

[hushed umbra]

everything is kind of weert

[royal python]

But is Weert everything

[hushed umbra]

never

[cinder lichen]

bratislava isnt much special either afaik. But vienna is daytripable from there

[verbal mantle]

its nice

cool castle

[brittle remnant]

Looking forward to faff about in Belgium in January/February

[brittle remnant]

fuck I procrastinated on booking the nj

I guess I'll european sleeper then

European sleeper booked

[brazen mantle]

enjoy

[minor cave]

very good

[brittle remnant]

Hmmm there's 1 seat left in the bordbistroon the European sleeper

[formal quarry]

do it

[brittle remnant]

I will

Bitch departs praha at 18:02

[formal quarry]

Hln

[brazen mantle]

hows the dienstregeling when youre taking this

[brazen mantle]

might as well try to slaap uit

very slow timetable

but all quite early with the arrivals

[brittle remnant]

I'll probably just sleep early

[brazen mantle]

yea

[brittle remnant]

Very early arrivals ye

I like that only 19 people can get dinner on this train btw

[brazen mantle]

sucks to suck i guess

[royal python]

Wait how does this work

[brittle remnant]

There's only 1 booking time for dinner

and these are all the seats on offer

[brazen mantle]

daniel denkvermogen

[brittle remnant]

breakfast has 3 times instead of just the one

now curiously enough, for dinner you could select how late you wanted to get dinner

between 19:00 and 21:00

[royal python]

Non existant but I was asking more how the organization works in general

Reserving a table for your entire rit seems a bad idea

Wait its not for the entire rit im still stupid

[brittle remnant]

It is

[royal python]

Wat

[brittle remnant]

Each of these seats, and probably also the tables, are sold only once per rit

[royal python]

Wtf

Bad system

For the dinner train this made sense but not for a 39399393 hours sleeper train

[brittle remnant]

It is a bad system I agree

But the dinner is reservation only and they decided to serve every seat only once

[royal python]

cool how this is bad for everyone including their profits

[brazen mantle]

it’s good for people who like taking their time on dinner

[cinder lichen]

doenst it become more bar like after the dinner has been served?

[brittle remnant]

Seems like it

[brittle remnant]

To Bratislava

Only 1 other person in this bus

The number I had in my head would've meant I'd be at 40k by the end of the day

Turns out not to be the case

I still need 1500km, not 1200km

Ht-Bratislava is 1200km

Just realised I've only used 1 in/outbound on my interrail because I flew into Italy

[brittle remnant]

3519 7:24-8:28 Ht - Vl 82/1585km

[brittle remnant]

Oh

I guess it's rather arbitrary whether Regiojet accepts Interrail or not, judging from their website

[brittle remnant]

Eurobahn RE13 Venlo - Düsseldorf Hbf 9:05-10:10 142/1585km

[minor cave]

Have fun Chris

[brittle remnant]

Thanks

[royal python]

Yes enjoy

[brittle remnant]

ICE105 Düsseldorf Hbf - Frankfurt Flughafen Fernbf 10:27+3-11:49 352/1585km

[verbal mantle]

Have fun

[formal quarry]

Enjoy

[brittle remnant]

Here's hoping my seat is genuinely not reserved and it's not just broken system

Being able to speak German while in Germany is OP

Just so nice

[brittle remnant]

Gleisänderung

[stable cloak]

Have fun

[brittle remnant]

ICE 27 12:01+3 - 18:47 Frankfurt Flughafen Fernbf - Wien Hbf 1058/1585km

I just realised I forgot my book

[stable cloak]

F

[brittle remnant]

Also forgot my good walking shoes

We're being diverted

So we're not going to Hanau

[minor cave]

Chris PASSAU?

[brittle remnant]

This train stops at Passau

@royal python do you have the crying baby png?

They're screeching so much they decided to sit under the table

[brittle remnant]

Thanks

[royal python]

🫡 np and sterkte

[brittle remnant]

Thanks

Next stop is Aschaffenburg

We're going via Darmstadt

[royal python]

Wow you are a year too early haaa

[brittle remnant]

Haaaa

[brittle remnant]

+45 already

[brittle remnant]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1132206074905239613/1322166061285511238/image0.jpg?ex=676fe299&is=676e9119&hm=0bc0bb000ab377864846dffbe7e05371ed2be32fd64c77259be6fea86d2d09af&

It's the same critter again

They left a teringbende behind

[brittle remnant]

I apparently have to change treinstel in Passau

[minor cave]

Yes always crazy stuff going on in Passau

Lucky you're not cancelled there

[brittle remnant]

Found a window seat

[brittle remnant]

Women here kissing

[brittle remnant]

I'll have 1.5 hours in Vienna

[cinder lichen]

night train out if vienna?

[brittle remnant]

No

I'm going to Bratislava

[brittle remnant]

RJX 167 20:42+21-21:51 Wien - Bratislava 1118/1585km

[minor cave]

Long day

Are you still having fun

[brittle remnant]

Getting a bit tired

Wish I brought my book with me

But other than that I'm fine

[stable cloak]

southern station nice

[brittle remnant]

No

I'm going main station

Via southern station

[stable cloak]

cool

with rjx?

[brittle remnant]

Ye

[brittle remnant]

How is there 20 min scheduled between the southern station and the main station

Right we have to go around the entire city at like 0km/h

Bratislava time

+29

They have trolleybuses

[brazen mantle]

yes

this is a very long way around

is the normal route still closed?

[brittle remnant]

Idk

It was either the long way around or via Breclav

So decent chance

[brazen mantle]

I guess so then

[brittle remnant]

I forgor so many things

My hiking shoes

My book

[brazen mantle]

like

[brittle remnant]

To take my shampoo out of the plastic bag and put it in my backpack

Blep

[brazen mantle]

damn

[brittle remnant]

And now i tore my pants on a loose fucking screw on the bed

Fantastic

[royal python]

:(((

[brittle remnant]

How late is the guy who made this

[cinder lichen]

mog

[brittle remnant]

I also forgot the cap I bought in sicily

I really just stuffed some clothes in my bag and left without thinking

[hushed umbra]

chris problems

[brittle remnant]

I used 1585km everywhere

That's because I hadn't updated trainlog

It should've been 1296km

[brazen mantle]

lol

will this be an issue or not

[brittle remnant]

No

It just means I'm closer to my goal

[brazen mantle]

nice

[brittle remnant]

Just put the trip to here in trainlog

I'm at 39992km

The goal is 40075km

I'll get there before we pull into Wien Hbf

[brazen mantle]

very nice

are you flying home?

[brittle remnant]

European sleeper

[brazen mantle]

oh very nice

bon appetit I guess

[brittle remnant]

Thanks

[brittle remnant]

Station time

RJX 160 6:00+6 - 7:18 Bratislava hl. n. - Wien Hbf

We are decidedly not moving

[brittle remnant]

Missed opportunity

Had I planned properly I could've taken this to Zürich and had a 4 country train

[brazen mantle]

lol

[brittle remnant]

7:30 U1 Hbf - Stephansplatz 7:35
8:48 U2 Schottentor - Karlsplatz 9:01
10:09 U1 Karlsplatz - Hbf 10:12

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People here have way too much luggage

Boarding here is the least efficient thing I've ever seen in my entire life and it's not even close

Have to kick someone out of the seat I reserved

How fun

Guy just pointing at stuff on his ticket

I don't know what he means but he's not talking

RJ74 11:10+4 - 15:15+13 Wien Hbf - Praha hl. n.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1132206074905239613/1322166061285511238/image0.jpg?ex=676fe299&is=676e9119&hm=0bc0bb000ab377864846dffbe7e05371ed2be32fd64c77259be6fea86d2d09af&

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2nd pp check

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Save me from this prison

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Got 2,5 hours in prague now

I'm going to Albert Heijn

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Appie plundered

Time to go back to station

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I booked a seat but my compartment appears to be a couchette

[minor cave]

You booked a seat for the ES?

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A reservation for a bed is like €50

[minor cave]

You really hate yourself don't you

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You really hate having money

Also yes I'm getting help from a psychologist early next year

[minor cave]

Enjoy the rit anyways

Pretty good additions to your map I think

[still yarrow]

nice

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No this adds nothing

Only doing this because I was too late with booking on the Nightjet

European Sleeper ES 452 Praha hl.n. - Amsterdam Centraal 18:02-6:26

[cinder lichen]

i agree with rico. the € more for couchette are worth. or just a hotel and next day even.

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You are both low IQ specimen

With that logic you'll hotel forever

[cinder lichen]

how much gunstiger is Asd compared to Rsd?? to get to Ehv?

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I don't need to be in Eindhoven

[cinder lichen]

like Rsd gives an hour more eep atleast?

ow srry ht ofc.

yeah then asd probably more sensible?

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Idk man

I can get out anywhere in NL probably

[cinder lichen]

alltbough ijssellijn treinen start roosendaal ofc

[minor cave]

I think a couchette would be worth it but I'm not you

Especially because a hotel would be at least 50 euro

And a seat on s night train will just be miserable

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No it wouldn't

Hostel is like €15~20

Also you're just being mean and contrarian to me for no reason

[minor cave]

Alright I'll shut up

I think Prague Berlin looks good on maps

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Yeah but I've already done this on a day train

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According to the schedule we should be in Decin rn

I'd kinda counted on all 3 people getting in at Decin settling down as when I should go to the restaurant car

It's the Berlijner

@royal python you will like this

Anglophones on my table and they know each other

I think Americans or Australians

Geroodseind Usti Nad Labem

We are over half an hour late already

And that's if we teleport to Decin

Restaurant car staff is Flemish

Geroodseind middle of nowhere

[royal python]

I do like this thank you

But cool how inefficient they made it with the whole booking thing

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Anyway food is here

Only took half an hour

[royal python]

Wtf

The restaurant crew consists of european sleepers

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Microwave meal

I kid

Tastes really good

1st station

Also you can book to go have dinner at any time, at least 30 minutes after you get on

Everyone was here as soon as the first slot started

So every single person having dinner rn is coming from Prague

We left the first station +60

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Stroopwafel slander

[cinder lichen]

geesten

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We were stood still on a slanted curve

Wanted to take a pic of my drink

Then it started moving

[cinder lichen]

interesting. would expect a bit less slippery table cloth

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Would be ideal

But they didn't

Good food

My car has 2 compartments to wash your hands

You can also wash your hands in the toilet

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+1 hour in Desin, +5 min in Dresden

??

[stable cloak]

This is very ruim ingelegd

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Quite

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I wonder how many people will be in my compartment after Berlin

I'm alone atm

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Got no cabin mates in Berlin Ostbf

People are fucking leaving at Berlin Hbf

What

Didn't know that was allowed

Either I don't have friends or they got in at the wrong carriage

Room next to me figured out how the beds work

But they all booked seats

So they asked if the beds in my room were available

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I get to enjoy a private carriage for now

Gn

Couchette for 1/3 the price

Curtains aren't perfect

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Arriving Asd perfectly in time

Couldn't sleep very well

Spent most of my time tossing and turning about irrelevant stuff

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2921 Asd - Ht 6:41+? - 7:36

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Last bus of the year

[cinder lichen]

enjoy

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In the end I shared my compartment with 2 others from the compartment next to mine

They were super nice in asking and I'd moved to one of the upper beds anyway because there was too much light coming from the hallway

So I will feel like I had my privacy

[cinder lichen]

So they use couchettes as seaters? but removed the curtains or smth?

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No the curtains just suck

They just don't give you bedsheets

There's 6 seats and 5 beds so if it's fully booked they can fit 1 more person in per compartment

[cinder lichen]

ah

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Tho with the price difference between seats and beds that is probably a net loss for them

This shows both sides of the compartment

[cinder lichen]

doesnt loook super comfy as a seater.

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Vis a vis never is

You could also be assigned a seater in the bordbistro

You know those 1st class seats out in the open as you enter the bordbistro from the hallway?

Doesn't sound like a nice place to be assigned at all

Tho more comfy than the seats in the couchette compartments

[fair bear]

what was the delay in the end

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0 min

[fair bear]

good

ES magic

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2024 in review:
41 606km by train (104% the Earth's circumference)
36 nights spent abroad
Visited 🇳🇱 🇧🇪 🇩🇪 🇱🇺 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇨🇭 🇮🇹 🇦🇹 🇸🇰 🇨🇿
First time in 🇱🇺 🇬🇧 🇸🇰
First time taking trains in 🇱🇺 🇬🇧 🇦🇹 🇸🇰
100%ed 🇳🇱 on July 21 at 14:50 in Veendam
Worst delay: ICE 254 🇩🇪 Mönchengladbach -> 🇳🇱 's-Hertogenbosch + 7h25m
Most travelled: 🇳🇱 's-Hertogenbosch <-> 🇳🇱 Utrecht (291 times, 14001km)
Top 3 longest train rides:

• European Sleeper 🇨🇿 Praha hl.n. - 🇳🇱 Amsterdam CS 1032 km 12h24m
• Freciarossa 🇮🇹 Villa San Giovanni - 🇮🇹 Bologna C.le 985 km 8h41m
• ICE 🇩🇪 Frankfurt Flughafen Fernbf - 🇦🇹 Wien Hbf 773 km 7h08m
  Shortest train ride:
• CFL 🇱🇺 Rout Bréck-Pafendall - 🇱🇺 Pfaffenthal-Kirchberg 0.2km, 1m
  Fastest train ride:
• Eurostar 🇧🇪 Bruxelles Midi - 🇬🇧 London St. Pancras Intl. 184km/h
  Slowest train ride:
• TPC 🇨🇭 Bouquetins - 🇨🇭 Col de Bretaya 10km/h

[cinder lichen]

friesland is lava

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sure thing

[minor cave]

cool stats

nice map

I thought you did scandinavia and spitsbergen this year too but time is warpign too fast

this was 2023

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Spitsbergen was 2021, scandinavia was 2022

2023 was only Prague, Rügen/Prora and Pisa

[minor cave]

my memory is cooked

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Time is fake anyway

[cinder lichen]

time flies when working hard

[royal python]

Very very cool and good

[hushed umbra]

trainlog wrapped

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Pretty much

[brazen mantle]

wait did you kopmaken dinant

this is pretty funny

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No

I am seeing now that my Marloie - Liege train is also not in here

2 belgium ritten are mysteriously missing from the primary map

[brazen mantle]

very cool

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This is missing De Panne - Gent and Marloie - Liege

both ritten that are in the list

[brazen mantle]

yeah i saw the de pannen gent one

on the trainlog server

[fair bear]

First time taking trains in Austria. About time

good

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First time taking trains in Switzerland was like last year December so not too crazy

[stable cloak]

I'm pretty sure I also copied your stats format last year so i'm gonna do it again

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Did I do this last year?

[stable cloak]

I think so

also IMO funiculaire doesn't count for this

but it's personal opinion anyways

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It's a proper rail vehicle operated by the lux railways

[royal python]

I fully agree

[fair bear]

it's on rails

one could also say this about the BT tram from Basel via Leymen. It's a tram, but Interrail is valid

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Yeah but interrail is not valid on CFL

Same with some Regiojets

[fair bear]

bitte, interrail is valid on CFL

but it's free so it doesn't even matter

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Paying for what

[fair bear]

still valid

good for the rail map you generate in the app

if you traverse it

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Yeah but you can also get stuff on the map thats "outside pass network"

[cinder lichen]

1st class

grens traject into belgium/de/fr

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1st class is for railway employees and losers

[cinder lichen]

you? prorail..

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railway employees

Everyone else is just paying 3x the fare for something that's barely an increase in comfort or quality

Or in the case of luxembourg, infinitely more

[cloud cove]

Idk in the UK interrail first is worth I think

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It's never worth

[fair bear]

untrue

switzerland is always worth with interrail

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1st class is never worth

[fair bear]

rarely

unless you want to do the special train between zweisimmen and montreux, dinner in GB and a panorama car

[royal python]

Or in a Koploper 🥰

[cloud cove]

I got so much free alcohol

And food

[royal python]

Whether something is worth is pretty simple: if the person who buys it can afford it and finds it worth it is worth

Actually nvm some things are genuinly not worth

[verbal mantle]

It's simpler than that

If chiel tells you it's worth, it isn't

[stable cloak]

I can buy dog food but I don't have a dog so it's not worth

[brittle remnant]

So I had plans to go to Malta by boat in November to get to my cousin's wedding

But this is €75 🤔

[minor cave]

Cool

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Flight from Catania is €31

[minor cave]

Think about what's better on the map

[cinder lichen]

hmm expensive.

[cinder lichen]

plus quite a bit of taxi/train costs

catania-malta ryanair allmost operates like a bus. with bus prices

[brittle remnant]

I was always going to do trains to Sicily for this so the train costs are fake

And malta famously doesn't have trains

[cinder lichen]

pozallo to ferry is a bit of a walk

and i dont know if the times make sense?

i did taxi ferry-pozallo and it barely made the train

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If you taxi you might as well charter a private jet

probably cheaper

[cinder lichen]

nah wanst too bad

[formal quarry]

This was worth it with a little discount of 50% making it €5 per day

Good price for multiple meals and beers

[cinder lichen]

chris fotos

[fair bear]

colourful

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Church that looks very catholic

Sells Martin Luther Playmobil

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Forgot to take a pic of the RE13

[royal python]

I dont have a pic of it either but I did write down that it was treinstel ET 7.12

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Thanks

Last rit of the day

[royal python]

https://treinposities.nl/foto/305329

Cool someone photographed it at venlo yesterday

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This is not my rit

So not suitable for a travel blog

[royal python]

Understandable

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I get to run for my bus at Ht

How fun

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I like how having to do the maasline didn't affect how late I'll be home

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217402,217394,217391,217301,216839,216799,216797,216788,216781,216777,216772,216757,216759,216763,216751,216746,216740,216723,216730,216697,216707,216721,216722,216693,216686,216682,216679

[brazen mantle]

vet

[royal python]

Mooi

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Kut zooi

https://trainlog.me/public/trip/217402,217394,217391,217301,216839,216799,216797,216788,216781,216777,216772,216757,216759,216763,216751,216746,216740,216723,216730,216697,216707,216721,216722,216693,216686,216682,216679

[royal python]

The way you wrote it first is useful for easy multitrip creation

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yeah I just incorrectly copied the link from my phone browser

[royal python]

I almost entered the rit to aschaffenburg as being with DoSto instead of twindexx vario and this pic saved everything thank you

[brazen mantle]

Daniel ik heb net een Daniel moment gehad

ik realiseerde me dat dosto staat voor doppelstock

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lol

[hushed umbra]

daniel moment

[royal python]

Heel mooi

[royal python]

Hielp het dat ik het als DoSto schreef ipv dosto of kwam dit gewoon

[brazen mantle]

dit hielp

[royal python]

Vet

Die schrijfwijze is eigenlijk niet canon maar treinposities doet het wel zo en ik vind die beter

[brazen mantle]

uitzonderingen op het huisstijlnaleefbeleid

[cinder lichen]

dit is wel een heel erg daniel moment

Maar aan de andere kant verwacht je dat daniel dosto benoemt als een DABbuz783 of iets in die trant.

[royal python]

aangezien ik alleen het nummer van de bak waar we in zaten heb en niet het stuurstandrijtuig noem ik de niet-dosto hier de DBpza 782.1 want dat is het specifieke type van die bak

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36 nights abroad is incorrect

I somehow fucked up my admin

[brazen mantle]

gedoe

[stable cloak]

What is it then

[brittle remnant]

Oh it is correct I just didn't fix some wildly incorrect dates in my admin while counting it correctly anyway

[royal python]

Lol

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I had my trip to Luxembourg listed as over a week long

That's of course not correct

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https://eratorailtrips.blogspot.com/2024/12/2024.html

Some of these ritten feel like an eternity ago

[minor cave]

Chris lore

This is a pretty good solid year

Good map too

UK map good

I also like the part where the floor is France

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I'll have you know I went to france 4 times

TGV Rodange
Bouzonville
Eurostar (both ways)

[minor cave]

Hmm alright

[brittle remnant]

I will admit these are all a bit fake

[crystal forge]

France is good

[brazen mantle]

one year is basically forever

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I suppose so yeah

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I apparently hadn't updated my Belgium 100% dashboard in a while

The thing I count here is number of connections

Until I go to Oostende there is no accurate km% for Belgium for me

[stable cloak]

Chris when will we L66/1

[brazen mantle]

just get Oostende out of the way then

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In summer

Probably around the same time I go to Oostende

I should 100% Belgium in 2025

I can Belgium for really cheap now

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https://eratorailtrips.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-united-kingdom-starring-europe-13.html

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Plan this friday

[minor cave]

Good

Are you gonna take the EuroCity

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Yes

This costs the same as Rsd

[minor cave]

Nice

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But saves an hour

[cinder lichen]

wonder how much is Breda-Luik with euroscity?

hmm 15,30€

fun meme for zaterdag

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I love that Breda-Noorderkempen is only €2,50 nowadays

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https://eratorailtrips.blogspot.com/2021/12/all-trains-27-dec-2021.html

Ik heb deze nu op de blog gezet

[stable cloak]

Damn this was 2021?

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Yup

barely

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Bus time

Had to rush a bit because I learned around the time I have about 5-10 min to go to the bus stop for the previous bus that the one I wanted to catch was cancelled

Guess I'll get breakfast at AH or smth

Now I have the same bus as I usually do on my commute

The plan

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Here is a map

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Vleugeltrein

IC2923 Ht-Hln 8:08-9:41

[minor cave]

Chris lore hype

I hope the Liège Aachen still uses klassiekjes

It's Hrl btw

[brittle remnant]

Oh

I'm literally gonna take the ICE rico

Also I did take this train in January last year and iirc it was a loc drawn thing

I10tje

[minor cave]

Rip

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I will be taking I10 later today

Snow here

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RE18 cancelled

ICE appears to be on time

The ICE after that is 2 hours later

So I guess I'll have to pivot

Hmm ICE in the opposite direction has been cancelled

How lovely

New information shows that if I can do the rest of the plan 2 hours later I'll be perfectly fine, I'll just need to find something to do for 2 hours in or around Aachen

Wait no I don't have 2 hours in Aachen

[brazen mantle]

“RE18 is betrouwbaar”

[stable cloak]

Is it cancelled or split again so planner says it's cancelled

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Even more RE18s have been cancelled

[stable cloak]

Usually they just cancel the Mt-Hrl part and run the border crossings under different ritnummers

[brittle remnant]

Yeah it doesn't run either direction rn

Okay they're not gonna be running the RE18 for a long while

All my homies hate Arriva

There's a SEV bus here but it's to Maastricht

[brazen mantle]

just bus40

you have d ticket

this is only like half an hour slower then the RE18

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I literally don't have D ticket

[brazen mantle]

oh

yeah this is 7,30 with vrr

with arriva its cheaper

but not much

idk of er op schanz goed aansluitende treinen zijn

maar blijven zitten tot hbf zal niet veel schelen

like 1km extra

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Dit is heel erg aan de prijs

Double decker SEV

🤡

Eerst ff pauze

"Over 10 min ben ik terug"

Private 6 figure vehicle with driver

It's just not really going

SEV RE18 Boosten reizen 11:19-11:?? Heerlen - Herzogenrath

[minor cave]

Dik

[brittle remnant]

This is very binnendoor

And thus slow

[formal quarry]

Hard

[royal python]

Grijze neus virm RARE

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K

⚓

Just realised my train was Gleisändert

Wasn't in the app

But it's too late now