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Recommendations for an Eastern European country to visit for rail travel
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If you like to get off the beaten paths, I would suggest to enter Bulgaria not via Bucharest and Ruse ad everyone does, but from Craiova...
Yesterday at 21:40
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Differences in rolling stock safety regulations in mainland Europe compared to UK
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Last belgian slam doors stock, K1 & K3 cars, disappeared around 1995 on the Liège to Luxembourg line. 2 of them still survive today and...
Yesterday at 21:17
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Examples of non "LGV" passenger services using High Speed Lines in Europe.
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As well as a local service from Antwerp to Noorderkempen on the high speed line to the Netherlands. The night jet to Berlin and Wien is...
Tuesday at 23:14
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From which grid is the Channel Tunnel electrified?
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There are two redundant substations, one at each end, acting as a backup for each other, and regularly switched over. Look in Google...
6 May 2024
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What are your first impressions of the new TGV-M.
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You mean the E4 ? First Japan shinkansen lines seem to have a larger loading gauge than continental Europe, which certainly helps. And...
6 May 2024
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What are your first impressions of the new TGV-M.
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Or, to take a more recent example, the SNCB M7 rolling stock. Double deck, motor car 3/25 kV, 3MW continuous output power, 200 km/h. Can...
3 May 2024
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Differences in rolling stock safety regulations in mainland Europe compared to UK
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Yes of course. You can always isolate a door, notably in case it malfunctions. You have to be near the door to do it, which is why it...
20 Apr 2024
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Differences in rolling stock safety regulations in mainland Europe compared to UK
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With hauled stock, doors are opened and closed by the guard. I don't believe he has any way to control what doors open, other than left...
19 Apr 2024
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Tallinn to Narva
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Only exception to that is (was ?) a 24 hours allowance for tourists coming on board cruise ships that dock in St Petersburg. Otherwise...
19 Apr 2024
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Interesting journeys in Belgium and the Netherlands
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Indeed the Break units are not allowed in Aachen. And in a not too distant future, the voltage switch infrastructure in Aachen will be...
17 Apr 2024
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Interesting journeys in Belgium and the Netherlands
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Yes you are right. I have difficulties to qualify european citizens as "foreign" so was more thinking about people coming from overseas.
15 Apr 2024
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MarcVD
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Interesting journeys in Belgium and the Netherlands
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In Belgium, every citizen receives an identity card at age 12 and is required carry it each time he goes outside. Same for foreign...
14 Apr 2024
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Countries where rail traffic drives on a different side to road traffic
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In Belgium, crossing loops are signalled in both directions. One of the tracks will be accessible with diverging switches at both ends...
11 Apr 2024
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Countries where rail traffic drives on a different side to road traffic
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Brussels Metro has some lines running on the right and some on the left. And then there is this infamous line on the Charleroi metro...
8 Apr 2024
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Countries where rail traffic drives on a different side to road traffic
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Same for Belgium. Normal traffic is on the left but the whole network is equipped with bidirectional signaling (the wrong main signals...
8 Apr 2024
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