Recent content by duesselmartin

Thankfully I will just miss it travelling in sunday and monday. I had some mixed experiences with NS but never a strike.

Less Talgo and no ICE5 in sight. As the ICE2 is life expired and ICE1 is not getting any better, one wonders what the strategy is? A general reduction in the timetable?

if you stay in NRW, the eezy app is an alternative as it caps the price at €58.

The Swiss insist that this line only runs to Basel due to its poor puncuality. The return journey is direct. Services from Basel to Zürich are very frequent.

Log into the website, you can print the PDF document on an A4 sheet.

yes it is added and removed in Basel SBB by a shunter.

not driving trailers in Germany as far as I know, unless it changed in the past three months.

this winter I had the (bad) luck that the gauge changer in Zweisimmen was out of order. The GPX ran from Montreux to Zweisimmen where we changed into a modern BLS unit for Interlaken. OT. Why not run a long service from Montreaux to Luzern? With another gauge changer at Interlaken it must be...

one of Europe's greatest oddity is actually the current Eurostar operation. UK border staff stationed far from the border in Paris and Brussels.

anone coming from the south might find the CD/ALEX service from Munich to Praha useful.

in French speaking countries, there are a lot of stations called Sortie.

Maastricht also has an airport and you might even find good deals with KLM.

Cleaning crew at Dortmund hated the Balkan trains as they usually were a horrible mess. From compartments to toilets..

The last stretch to Obersdorf and Freilassing to Berchtesgaden has poor patronage and is prone to cancellation. It would hardly be missed. Replacing it with an RE would not be a problem. The Westerland route would be the only real challenge.

I dont understand why DB ordered such a large fleet of not tried and tested trains. It falls on their feet now. RailJet style Siemens might have been the better option.