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thats a shame to hear, what are they using for the Amsterdam IC now?, remember hearding last year that the restaurant car was a requirement by NS hence why when they needed to use push pull due to diverts (hence no restaurantcar), they had to swap the train at Bad Bentheim?
bold idea but if they could recofigure the insides as well as Nightjet style pods could they rebuild some sleepers into a fashion similar to the original style of CIWL Type-P's? (staggered upper and lower berths to allow to be their own cabin)
yea only 2 set route i can think of that isnt Paris/Belgium bound is Graz-Berlin so if they are wanting a final route before the second batch my money would be on that
batch 2 is 20 sets so could be
La Spezia- Wien/Munich: 4 sets
Amsterdam - Wien/Innsbruck: 4 Sets
Zurich - Wien/Graz: 4 sets...
so looking at the numbers
Hamburg-Wien/Innsbruck: 4 Sets
Bergenz-Wien : 2 Sets
Rome-Wien/Munich: 4 Sets
thats 10 Sets allocated, either 3 Spare sets or 1 more route and 1 Spare set
yea thanks for the correction, too much tab switching on vagonweb
also as far as im aware its the last to use Wien Hbf autozug facilties since they removed the car carry option from the Wien-Hamburg route?
new NJ sets now running on the domestic Bergen-Graz route, says to me still having issues getting approval outside Austria and Germany
rather than Italy trains i suspect next routes to get the new stock will either be the either of the Zurich trains (as approval would allow more routes like...
if the sleeper trains are still going they will both be on new rolling stock i suspect, likely BMU's rather than loco haulled
E300's will be gone with E320's not that far behind with somthing newer replacing both, possibly same model as HS2 trains
steam railtours fall out of fashion so wont see...
if the hassle is more to do with innitial biometric collections with subsiquent usage quicker would it make sence for eurostar/gov to rent somwhere either in St Pancreas or elsewhere to allow people to do the biometrics well before travel (i.e. days or even weeks)?
Paris to Vienna is already one of the earliest to depart/latest to arrive at 7pm and 10am so being able to speed that up would help make it alot more appealing