Sophie's travels

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Since I'm rarely at home I might as well share my travel related ramblings here

I also post on twitter: https://twitter.com/MsChrysa
And I track travels on traewelling: https://traewelling.de/@xSophiee

Today's plan is to work towards doing 100% of swiss railways, will mainly travel around Bern

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Soof lore

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sophie lore

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The day so far:

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lorephie

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Laupen is the first town with a longer transfer. This is Switzerland though so a long transfer here means 19 minutes.

From Laupen we race towards the Alps with a quick illegal transfer in Bern. The weather is beautiful but I'm glad I'm on a train with AC

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ohnoo. this will just become a soph takes a rare stupid route to 100% something.

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In Thun I have a 18 min transfer, plenty of time to walk around and buy a drink with 40 seconds to spare

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I don't see the problem

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.

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me neither.

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So much lore

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your desire 100%ing stuff will just get worse with this thread

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it can get worse?

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Idk.. yes if we ad grand est. or ter aura.

they have cool lines

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Sophie lore

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lil BLS train

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dont they have 2 bak somehere.

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Some trains look suspiciously lengthened

With two types of coach

we're three minutes late so I'm going to miss my transfer

Train waited 👍

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Nice

You should just get a bot that mirrors your Twitter

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traweling can or could do this auto tweet on checkin

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Discord supports this

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Sophie thread

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It's windowhangable

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@verbal haven !

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Good

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Shop visited ✅

these are the new coaches, they have ac

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Thank you

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luxe

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it's BLS all the way down, but I think this is the last one

https://www.prestige-continental-express.ch/de/unsere-angebote/

This just passed

They're running a train to Montenegro next week ayo

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sounds fun

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Not a tram

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Did the entire OEBB net in 8 mins

Weird ass curve

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what is oebb???

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Knockoff öbb?

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Oensingen Balsthal bahn

Langenthal is ehh

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I thought SOB ran this but I guess not

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Bern my beloved

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malafide

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Very good

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Kinda weird how I've only been checked once today

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well the amount of check in my france journey was also minimal

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UK is very frequent checks

Some conductors spawn check

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Yes

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Especially on 2 car trains

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Colchester guy said this as well

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After every station essentially

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UK train guards are interesting

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@swift wolf die post train just passed

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Speed

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Lyss has a lot of nightlife for a town this small

@spare herald Loreen

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Yes

Good

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Aaaaaa dit is zo mooi

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?

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post train

the postauto people deliver mail

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This is still a thing?!

Yoooo?

Extremely cool

Wait this is your lore channel nice

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Yes

Sophie lore

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There's a massive post train depot outside lausanne

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😳😳

Potentially a teun dream too

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https://maps.app.goo.gl/6J7pcuhqEPQvGHXf8

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Re 4/4?

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Very hot

Idk I don't know my swiss trains besides the ones I really like

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I mean

It looks modern

And has 4 axels

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no it doesnt

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This is not a criterea for me

And yeah it doesnt look modern either

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80s latest

no later

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Older I think

But idk

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Because this

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might be 70s because of wrap round windshield

or side windows atleast

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Yeah it’s a 4/4

I didn’t mean modern as in 21st century

I meant it as in post war

This 4/4 started in the 60s

But i think the first 4/4 was late 40s

This is the 4/4 I

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icn best swiss train

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Sbb has the best liveries tbh

When i was looking for 4/4s i found this one with a very DSBesque livery

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There we go, on the last train now

Plan worked out, I made a few illegal transfers so I managed to cram the Büren an der Aare branch in

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NICE MAP!

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it's a squiggly mess

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you took like 20 trains orso today.

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This is a good tour

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i like how the average time on a train is like less then 30min

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26

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this is horrible to excel lol

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i dont excel :p

It's easy to map

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Very very amazing

My record is only 18

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koploper only 18

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Legal age dab

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I wonder what my record is

This probably depends on your definition of train

I prefer longer direct services though

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My record is probably 15 when doing all the trains

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sand pit in lausanne?

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It's a neighbourhood

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doesn’t desert also mean abandoned in french

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yes

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It does look like a neighbourhood that needs some love tbf

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just an average palce you would visit then

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trolleybus my beloved

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Sbb

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whats you’re plan today

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going home

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how

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via Strasbourg

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Sophie TER200

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You're

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heb je iets meer detail

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incorrect

Strasbourg - Mannheim - Köln - Venlo - nl

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How late you cross the border

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Venlo 18:56

19:41 eindhoven

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Damm i be rollin in at hamont at 2100

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nice

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From birmingham

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i mean I'll be late anyways

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I wish youna free hotel

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Oh that border

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We're late

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sbb bad...

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only 90 secs

connection waited

All is well

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lucky you.

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lovely view

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Jura

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Cool station as far as beetroot stations go

taking a tgv to Germany

The app thinks it's 32 cars long

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nice

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this is a good service

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How foolish of me to assume this would be quieter on the border section

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send map

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will you be on same train as Cas guy? träweling suggest he is leaving swiss today too.

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no idea

Got checked on the border

"das ist nicht gut aber das ist ok"

ok

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Why not?

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I don't have a reservation for the border section

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Janken

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Because the b-europe site doesn't let you buy them

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oh right you need a reservation because france

i was gonna say what does it matter

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i had one to Strasbourg

But not for the border section

Got told off but no fine

Did accidentally tell the guard I'm getting off in Baden Baden tho

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Lol

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now I'll be in Karlsruhe 4 mins later

Oh well

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soph zwartrijden

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yes

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French guy walked up to me

"is the beer cold?"

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are you vibing treinbeer with french guy now?

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no he ran off into first class lmao

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now i want an erdinger too...

on a train

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Did the white stuff spill over

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this ain't the UK idiot

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ok boomer

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whats stopping you

its weekend

you have weekend vrij

you could catch the 17:00 from amsterdam

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😳

i gonna clean out the building materials fomr my house i think

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boring choice

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i know... i should've gone by car somwhere

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Sitting across Herr Prof Dr

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herr proff dr doong beers?

are you working on trains? this is very max like. you dont want to be max

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yeah I am

I have a 24hr contract

and this route I've already done 50 times

This should be me

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lame even by hsl standards i think

this route

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why

i think it's one of the better ones

just coasting through hills

Wtf we arrived early

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Crazy

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Rare

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Everyone on this trains smells like sweat and Gamescom hasn't even started yet

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duitsland

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lol

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Venlo moment

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Venloooo 🥰

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me

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you

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eindhoven

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icrm my pretty beloved although it is time for them to retire

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Ehv

ICRm my rest in piss you won't be missed bozo

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I will miss it tho

Its my pit express

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Can i take over this thread now

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no

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Can i get my own thread then

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Blijf met je gore klauwen van mn thread af

23/8

Aosta

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Sophie terug

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o

bergen

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26/8

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wat spook je uit

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27/8 time to work on 100% swiss railways again

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How much is left?

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Welcome back!

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40%

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progress

mostly local shit right

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That's still a decent amount

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i think this is also a diminishing returns thing

the last few percent will take the longest

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Probably

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yes

:(

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yeah takes long af

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the only non-local line is the one to Romanshorn

funny

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yea

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De ellende is terug

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sophie's back nice

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wollah

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sophie frauenfeld?

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yeah only done the line to konstanz

good ad

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i dont know if swiss people understand slay

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Do most other people?

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Hate when I'm just ticking off random lines and it turns out they go past places worth visiting

cool

this line is really nice

love hairpin curves

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cool

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P o g s o p h i e b a c k

Yippee

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this is why you do what I do

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depending on how good i can cycle yet i should go take NL trains

next week

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what does that have to do with cycling

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i have to get to the station

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same thing for belgian trains

they also leave from stations

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and walking to the nearest bus stop takes longer than cycling to maastricht station

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haal je fietsen uit mn lore draad

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oh

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This should be me

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this could be you

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thought this was off topic tbh

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I'm smart because I took a train the wrong way

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no

definitely not

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h

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H

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hhhhh

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Very jealous

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@verbal haven raam

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Kettle

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It does two rare pieces of track

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nice

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It only does one because we got pranked

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L

you should blame max

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you should cut your nails i think

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Why

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Ja erg mooi

Ontroerend zelfs

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theyre just a bit long

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is that bad

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no

embrace your nails

teun jealous

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Don’t embrace them too hard though

Might hurt

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i mean its a taste thing maybe

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rain

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I am soaking wet and I spilled mustard on my clothes

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do you have some left over

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yeah

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nice

I was going to maybe make mosterbloemkool but I think my mum wants bami

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This went up 30 cents

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:(

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Wtf

Why is it in a vending machine

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:(

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I do wonder who buys this

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Nesslau-Neu St Johann

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Water levels are rising

This shop has way too much trust in people

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YOOOOOOOOOO POSTBUS MY BELOVED

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Saw a postauto double decker too in this small town

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Didn’t know there were double decker postautos

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There's a surprising amount of double deckers in ch

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HELEMAAL NAAR DE

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not that good trains

seats are a bit iffy

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they're fine tbh

dunno why everyone shits on them

like worst train ever!!!!

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no

i not say that

I just don't really like them

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Lots of people shit on them tho

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yeah

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giruno way worse tbf

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Theyre not great, but the worst? Never been on a gtw?

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too many times sadly

and we'll get gtw in december to oldenzaal

bad

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Sophie magnetron maaltijd

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I'm in a seated wagon of the nightket to Amsterdam

This is a vibe but a very malafide one

lol Dutch people are standing

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lmao

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wait youre going all the way in a seat?

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no just to basel

Dutch announcement, very cursed to hear that in the middle of Switzerland

I heard a ton of laughter after the "schlafen Sie gut"

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nice

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Rip these people

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Why?

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long distance seated night travel

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That is unfortunate yes

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This car is all 4seaters too

which is even worse

Can't stretch your legs

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baaaaaaaad

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yep

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4seat sleep seats seems kinda cursed

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incredibly cursed

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this looks tasty

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it's a Swiss dish

Hörnli mit ghäckts

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To Bodø I had a 3 seater for myself

But my assigned seat wasn't the autism seat and I didn't wanna deal with problems regarding other people's reservations

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What's the autism seat

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autistenstoel

4-seater near the door so 1 seat was missing

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Right

On this train that's a five seater

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2+3 is cursed enough as is

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imagine sleeping in that middle seat

people bringing dogs and bikes on board

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there's like 200-300mm more coming in the next 2 days

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yep

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that is overstromingen pepinster/eifel amount of rain

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yes

https://www.srf.ch/news/schweiz/starkregen-und-hochwasser-wassermassen-bedrohen-das-rheinvorland

It's not too bad yet

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yet

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it's long

It's windowhangable

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Micromave

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Eater snacks and drankies

Fucking adorable

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Sophie nightket

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This looks a m a z i n g in terms of vibe

Very very amazing

I wouldn't sleep and just stand there all night lmao

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yeah I'd do that if I didn't have places to be

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Sophie busy girlboss with places to be

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Goooooood morning

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Ht

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NL alert

Close windows and doors

Don't think so mate

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?

Ah some part of Noord Den Bosch

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Den hag

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Wrong

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I'm abroad again

good trains

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even better

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It's so wet outside

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Same here

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Zottegem

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that ic was soooo slow

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cool how I can take slow trains and be in Lille before noon

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then you can take midday ouigo to marseille too

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This is possible

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yes I just did

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Weird ass trains

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this is good

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@verbal haven

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There's a pic of these stairs in the book about designing trains for NS

They decided this was terrible, and now we have the VIRM and DDZ stairs

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yeah it is terrible lmao

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raamhang dubbeldek?

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yes but only the lower floor

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cool

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Rubber noseeeee

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20 car train to paris

so many free toilets

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how many toilets in the 20 cars

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like twelve

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thats a lot of toilets

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I'm amiens

big ass tower

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@serene glen bus

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cool bus

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I forgot to refollow this channel

Het5 cool

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I got lucky

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Cool

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nice

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amazing

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Those headrests are disgusting

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yep lmao

Ham

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nice

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Big ass train entering laon

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this is good

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18 bakken dubbeldekker?

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single deck

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jammer

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Laon is lovely

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looks like it is

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Looks like England lmao

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Yessss M4 my beloved

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I had the italian version of this yesterday

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1 tram per 9,5 mins

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AGC appreciation post

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yellow

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I love the hdf ter postcards

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yes

how many are there

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These are good yes

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Not sure how many there are, but I've seen more artwork than these 4 used on the SNCF posters

I'm Laon - hirson

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@storm bison good line, it's slow af especially near hirson

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RARE!!!

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yes

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cool did you buy these?

There are a whole lot of those postcards. you can ge them in ter Hdf fan shop. Also in wall poster versions.

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They're free

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https://laboutiqueter.fr/

poster versions

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omg

I didn't know this existed

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Cool TER boutique

I’ll get something for on my wall

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hdf postcard set for €12,90

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I'm aulnoye

Got another hangable train

Hooray

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Old SNCF logo my beloved

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@swift wolf let's steal the old SNCF logo tiles

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YES YES YES

Sophie stealing era and it's good

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These doors/the wall next to it look very goofy

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How come

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sncf logo mosaic is good

also nice ter bus

and window hang doubledeck VR2N good. this are their last months if i understood correctly.

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Glad I got to ride them twice

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is that bus the infamous charleville-hirson bus?

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And I wasn't allowed to borrow DB glasses smh my head

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Yes

belgium time

two people on this train

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486

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Idk the train looks very blokkerig

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Correct

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It's a good train sir

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Bruh

Goofy but good train

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Ok I hereby grant permission for DB glass borrowing

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🤨

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With exception of erdinger branded glasses

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Hmm upstairs hang?
The italian one had bars upstairs so you couldnt hang upstairs

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It has a little funnel thing, idk what to call it

but no you can't hang them upstairs

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Damm the french have prevented it too

Bastards

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I take it away again

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I will hang them

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hang the lower floor before they're gone

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For max specifically or for everyone

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max

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No i meant the french and italian people who did this to us

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Raam

I need to France again

Maybe near the end of September

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lmao

Do it

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Hdf lame though

Beter grand est

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hdf has good places

grand est too but it's kind of annoying to get to

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Yes

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I am neutral in regards to this decision

Max didn't you already have one anyway by now

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Best way is via Luxemburg or Germany

But those suck

And interrail is malafide

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explain

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Reservations

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ah yeah

It's not much of a problem outside school holidays

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I'll see

But I'll need two

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sncf interrail reservations are fine outside highseaso .

You just want a french interrail pass or smth and use a cheap Maastrich-Lux ticket to grand est.

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I have global pass until October

I don't think it's possible starting in Delft at 16:00

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or belgium to lille for hdf

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arent you gonna do freiburg meme

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which

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rico

I convinced him to go to Switzerland for one weekend

take a late ICE Freiburg

this is possible when leaving Delft at 16:00 pretty comfortably

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this is good

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Yes

I'll sleep in Basel instead

It's literally the same price and less gedoe

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this is good

how much was it in Basel

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200 euro for 3 nights in a capsule hotel

Which isn't a good deal

But it was the same as Freiburg

I already accepted this will be expensive

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Rico rich

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Rico's travels

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although €66 per night in Suissy.. good price

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Yes sorry for using your channel

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good channel invasion

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Do lorrach

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is that cheaper

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It's already booked

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Nvm said nothing

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I want something with convenient train access

No bus nonsense

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Lorrach is basel s bahn

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Didn't really have zin is hostel

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66 for capsule isn't mega cheap but for ch it's alright

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Plus I'll be arriving really late

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yeah

this amkes sense

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The ritten will be worth the money

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Good line

I'm in gent now

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Do you have time to check out the older platforms

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I arrived on one

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Good

New gent is bad

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gent is good

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you hadnt been yet?

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this surprises me

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oh the other side of castle had parkje

i only went to bridge side where boat tour goes

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Gent is like the best city in Belgium I think

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i haven't Gent

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Maybe brugge

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gent > brugge

Brugge is all fake

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gent has trams

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yes

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Oh that castle grass field looks very vibe

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alcohol

[dull nacelle]

o7

[serene glen]

kruis is kinda an unfortunate word i think

are you having fun

[dreamy grove]

I love this tap

[serene glen]

wijn enzo in comic sans looks so cute on a menu

[swift wolf]

This is so so good

[swift wolf]

Straffe dingen too

[serene glen]

thats just normal belgian

[swift wolf]

Fair

Comic sans my beloved

[edgy dagger]

yes

[serene glen]

good people?

also are you on your own or did you pick up Laura in France or something

[edgy dagger]

I'm with the girl I met on the ICE last week

[edgy dagger]

yes very

[serene glen]

where is she from

[edgy dagger]

Cardiff

[serene glen]

she’s just in Europe currently?

[edgy dagger]

yeah she had a conference in Bern

and then just spent time in aachen and Belgium

[tulip kernel]

Don't be one of those people that thinks the UK isn't in Europe

[serene glen]

im not but

praktische redenen

sounds fun

[spare herald]

this sounds incredibly cool

[edgy dagger]

this was a great day

[spare herald]

yesyesyes

[outer cave]

Essenzeit

[tulip kernel]

Veel plezier in de s32

[edgy dagger]

I am vibing

"vergeet uw persoonlijke bagage niet, dat scheelt mij een hoop administratie"

[wicked dagger]

Late night Sophie

[edgy dagger]

yes

[wicked dagger]

How is Antwerpen luchtbal

[swift wolf]

10/10 station

Actually 0/10 it has a univers sign but no luchtballonnen

[wicked dagger]

Banger station

This could be in Bulgaria

[swift wolf]

Yes

Hey at least the platforms are tiled

grass platform my beloved

[wicked dagger]

You don’t like the Belgian classic platform of overgrown weeds

[swift wolf]

I love it

Makes me feel as if the doors opened on the wrong side every time

[wicked dagger]

This could be France, Belgium or somewhere in the balkans

[swift wolf]

Hahaha I drove past this and it was great

[dreamy grove]

Or Italy

Although then the platform would be cracked and dirty as well

[wicked dagger]

Not really Italy, they are quite good with keeping mainline stations in check, only really the south that’s bad and then the plants are a lot drier since like it’s hot innit

[dreamy grove]

It varied in my experience

The last being @storm bison’s favourite station

[wicked dagger]

I do like the white rails in Italy

I really should do a few weeks in Italy

Very cool place

[spare herald]

Yes

I should go back

But maybe next year

[dreamy grove]

You should go back now

[spare herald]

I have obligations

[edgy dagger]

Luchtbal is a very nowhere station

noorderdokken is even worse

[serene glen]

the stations along this line are very confusing

[wicked dagger]

Brecht

[edgy dagger]

Noorderkempen? Not too bad imo

it's nowhere near as messy

[wicked dagger]

Is it not?

I thought it was the one in the field with no foot access to the town

[serene glen]

they built like a bike tunnel under the motorway

[edgy dagger]

of course it has foot access lol

[serene glen]

I mean it’s kind of disputable wether there’s foot acces to Brecht

but I assume most people just use the tunnel

I don’t know if the motorway acces streets have sidewalks because you know Belgium but I assume not

[edgy dagger]

tons of people walk through the tunnel yeah

or take a bus

its a pretty big bus hub

[serene glen]

yes

[wicked dagger]

Yes

Tbh I thought it was miles out

[verbal haven]

the modernisd ones are good, if they havent been modernised yet, theyre dog shit

[edgy dagger]

shoutout to this

[wicked dagger]

I quite liked Treviso

Was fucked but fun

[verbal haven]

thats one of the modernised ones

[wicked dagger]

Is it really

Half the platforms weren’t paved and there was a huge wasp nest on the PIS

[verbal haven]

yeah welcome to italy

[swift wolf]

I found antwerpen zuid to be worse because at least luchtbal has interesting trains passing by

[storm bison]

this only is gela

[dreamy grove]

A lot of other stations were in a poor condition imo

[edgy dagger]

Another day another trip

I have school tomorrow, let's see how far we can get in one day

This train is packed

[edgy dagger]

This train is also packed

[verbal haven]

Just saw you pass at boxtel

[edgy dagger]

👋

[verbal haven]

No

[edgy dagger]

oh :(

[edgy dagger]

The driver just left

long argument about whether or not I can use interrail from the border

i won

[spare herald]

cool

[tulip kernel]

It's pretty compli

cated

[edgy dagger]

it's really not

Interrail is valid from the border

[spare herald]

yeah

you can just invoer grenspunt

[edgy dagger]

I did this

Interrail staff says that you can do this

ns website says I can use studenten ov to the border

"nou ik heb hier nog nooit van gehoord hoor"

[serene glen]

hack

i think conductors dont like you knowing more then them as well

[edgy dagger]

idk she put it in the ice255 WhatsApp group

we're moving after standing in Venlo for like 20 mins

[serene glen]

nice

theres a whatsapp group for this train

they should do this for the sprinter 4424

[edgy dagger]

"met de trein kun je ook in de file staan helaas"

[edgy dagger]

we're so late

bad country

[edgy dagger]

"U had helemaal gelijk mevrouw"

[outer cave]

Mooi

[dreamy grove]

Mooi

[rose peak]

Mooi

[edgy dagger]

zo fijn om te horen altijd

then we talked a bit about international travels

About how to cross the lux border for free and how to get to Barcelona for cheap

"ik snap niet dat mijn kinderen niet zo'n youth unlimited pas voor België hebben"

[rose peak]

i did see a lot of youth in trains when i had mine

[edgy dagger]

I'm gonna make my transfer

[storm bison]

sophie explaining travel hacks to train staff lol

[edgy dagger]

no bistro in ic2013

[rose peak]

malafide

[storm bison]

this is good for bingokaart

[edgy dagger]

I'm on some random IC to solingen

[serene glen]

have fun in sollingen

they have good trolleybuses

[edgy dagger]

just saw an ancient van hool

[outer cave]

Bordbistro moment

[edgy dagger]

I'm vibing so incredibly hard

[serene glen]

these are good

[edgy dagger]

yes

[dreamy grove]

😍

Good weather

[outer cave]

Epic

[verbal haven]

@edgy dagger nice, youre lucky

[edgy dagger]

Had to let ic2013 go unfortunately

But ic2044 is the GOAT

Staff is super nice too

chatted with the guard and he also likes window hanging lol

got free water

[serene glen]

nice

[dreamy grove]

nice

[edgy dagger]

Mainz is a little disappointing

Got a new ice3 out of here tho

[edgy dagger]

boogje

[dreamy grove]

mooi

[edgy dagger]

Mexico

[swift wolf]

Amazing lmao

[edgy dagger]

Arrived in den bosch +78

I'm sng autistenstoel

[tulip kernel]

That's a bad one

Also sng 6600 bad

[edgy dagger]

yeah it's bad

[edgy dagger]

The alternative was standing in the corridor

[rose peak]

better than flirt 3600

which was today

or yesterday

[tulip kernel]

Nice

[steady bobcat]

Long

[edgy dagger]

due to circumstances there will be lore today

[rose peak]

sophie lore

[tulip kernel]

Lore

[edgy dagger]

The train was half an hour late so I've got some time to kill in Antwerpen

I should ride an old PCC before they're gone

[edgy dagger]

love how this line just becomes an old mess when you're past Kortrijk

[wicked dagger]

best looking belgian station

[edgy dagger]

From Poperinge I'm taking this bus to France, it's part of some pilot

[dull nacelle]

bus 62?

[edgy dagger]

Yee

[dull nacelle]

nice

[edgy dagger]

I'm hdf

hop

[rose peak]

poperinge bus

[serene glen]

what’s that bus

[edgy dagger]

Some isuzu thing

[edgy dagger]

Took a train from hazebrouck to arras where I changed to a train to Rouen

It was packed and had a 20 minute stop in Amiens so I walked to a supermarket and back

[swift wolf]

Good

[dreamy grove]

Hip and cool

[edgy dagger]

I'm not used to being outside before sunrise anymore

On the first train out of Rouen of the day

[edgy dagger]

Haven't seen a sunrise in a while

[edgy dagger]

what a station lmao

Taking this bus to Le Trèport, the cash machine is broken so it's free hooray

[edgy dagger]

Le Tréport is a bit of a shithole but the view is good

The landscape is very calming here

we're getting turbopranked

[tulip kernel]

Looks nice

[edgy dagger]

It's a good vibe here

[swift wolf]

yay

[edgy dagger]

it looks very worn and dated

the lights are falling out of the ceiling lol

@storm bison I'm corail

[serene glen]

so good

[swift wolf]

Best maintained french train

[swift wolf]

Looks extremely comfy

[storm bison]

nice corail

you should lore in teh french discord they will be jaleous

Did you ride the le treport funiculair?

Also is that Creil?

[edgy dagger]

yes

[edgy dagger]

yes

[storm bison]

oh. I should do same what you did. to go treport and the last bits of hdf lines donw there

[edgy dagger]

ancient map in the corail

[dull nacelle]

nice

[edgy dagger]

1988

[edgy dagger]

The le treport - abancourt line is nice

[storm bison]

steal it

still shows amsterdam via quevy and luxemburg

[swift wolf]

holy fucking shit this is really really really really really cool aaaaaa

That old logo and the map style go so hard

Actually insane that this is in a coach that is in service today in a rich EU country

[edgy dagger]

It's metal lol

[storm bison]

only two lgv lines on it

[edgy dagger]

what we could have had

[swift wolf]

I will colonize this image and turn it into a 3d object if I ever make a tgv interior

[storm bison]

wtf is thR thionville to hartgarten-falck line

[edgy dagger]

This predates most tgvs lol

Oh it is stealable

[swift wolf]

STEAL IT

stealitstealitstealitstealitstealit

[storm bison]

steal it!

before sncf scraps it in a few weeks

[swift wolf]

This thing is 4 decades old it has absolutely no rights anymore

Yes

imagine if NS had a poster this old still up

even the vertrekstaten at the ns hq trefpunt were up to date for this year

[edgy dagger]

Ok i can't

[storm bison]

its cool how it also has corsica on it

[swift wolf]

Its ok shoutout for trying

[edgy dagger]

The screws are too tight

[storm bison]

hit them. make them loose

where are you corailing to?

[edgy dagger]

Cambrai

It's attached with six of these

[storm bison]

only 4 left

[edgy dagger]

had to get off :(

terminus

[storm bison]

M4 bolts or M5 maybe

sad

[edgy dagger]

my screwdriver fits but they're suuuper tight from not moving for 30 years

Btw other end of the carriage

1994 map

[storm bison]

you should share this in le train discord

you will be their hero then

channel tunnel spawned.

[edgy dagger]

fuck tomorrow is a regio2n

[storm bison]

are you sleeping dowaai?

1994 sudde ly does have the line from duinkerke into belgium

[edgy dagger]

no I'm going back to st quentin

then tomorrow st Quentin -> Maubeuge -> belgium

And then I've done 100%

[storm bison]

what? you 100% hdf then.

crazy

how did you endup doing this lol

few month ago you thought 100% hdf was a dumb plan.

[edgy dagger]

it still is

I have even dumber plans coming up

[storm bison]

No it was a great plan because hdf is fun

100% ter nomad?

still should travel ter Remi once

[dull nacelle]

and i still haven't done 100% bzh lmao

[storm bison]

I think soph is the only one to 100% hdf including weird freight only curves..

i doubt even simplyrailway has done this. and he is from hdf

[swift wolf]

Really really cool

[edgy dagger]

Guard checking tickets

He brought his friends

4 gendarmes

[swift wolf]

1312

[storm bison]

they've seen you stealing signs 🤣

[swift wolf]

I was about to ask if acab applied to inspectors too

[edgy dagger]

even the gendarmes are talking about the state of these stations lmao

[storm bison]

bruine berg 💩

[dull nacelle]

yes

[storm bison]

is this one of the once a day single train station

[edgy dagger]

idk why there are this many cops

There's like twelve people here

[edgy dagger]

It's got a very regular 1tp2h

wtf

exactly one train per 120 mins

[storm bison]

ow you are the dowaai-cambrai line. K40 in weekend service

[edgy dagger]

no I'm on the stopper

[storm bison]

P40 weekdays

[edgy dagger]

Taking k40 back

[storm bison]

i should still doe this

[edgy dagger]

Got a bad train to Maubeuge :(

It's locked

[edgy dagger]

Most people went to the border

[dreamy grove]

222 @tulip kernel

[edgy dagger]

All buses go to aller or retour

[tulip kernel]

Nice

[outer cave]

But what if you want enkeltje?

[edgy dagger]

Then you take a bus to Aller

[storm bison]

did you stadsbussen maubeuge

did all these people were werkelozen en verslaafden heading belgium for tabacco and casino's??

[edgy dagger]

That was one half

The other half got off at the prison with shopping bags

[storm bison]

lol

stadsbussen hdf are just filled with paupervolk

vibe

[edgy dagger]

Nice synced signs

Two doors at two heights and neither of them are level lmao

[serene glen]

yes

belgium platform heights are basically random

[edgy dagger]

It's busy

[outer cave]

Brussel noord?

[verbal haven]

antwerpen

noord ziet er een heel stuk beter uit

[edgy dagger]

Antwerpen berchem