Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 8mbut of course the core section of this 1 narrow-gauge S-Bahn line is running every 7.5 minutes during peak time. It originates in a 4 track terminus with 10 more trains per hour and needs platform doors to control the crowds waiting for trains 😆 000
Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 5hTwo cancellations and "odour emissions may occur" 😱 Swiss transport isn't what it used to be 2141
Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 07/10/2026It's not easy, if you want to step-free access at Hbf, you also need to look at the tracks towards Albtalbf. If you do that, you'd probably need to consider step-free access there too. Albtalbf has 3-car trams, I don't know a 120m long platform can fit there between the junction and siding tracks 🥲 030
Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Because the whole revamp of the tram stop will likely still take at least a decade, temporary platform humps are being installed at Karlsruhe Hbf to finally provide step-free access to trams 🙌🏻 2240
Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I wanted to compare project counts between states (BY and BaWü have much more than NRW 🥲) then noticed this: why are they listing projects already done for a half a decade? 080
Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 06/10/2026also TIL double-tracking the #CrossBorderRail to Venlo is for real being studied, but still very much early days, not even planning phase 1 yet 190
Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 06/10/2026TIL the remaining bits of the RRX project (PFAs 2.0, 2.1, 3.0, 3.0a, 3.1, 3.2, 3.2a, 3.3, 5a, 8, 9) will cost €4.875bn 😳 some of them are already under construction but still won't be finished until 2044?? 180
Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Example from Karlsruhe KVV. I'll check my photo library for more later 😁 130
Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 27/09/2026complain to the local transit authority for configuring it like this, here in Karlsruhe it's a much easier system :D over here it's either "leave the bike where you want" or just at designated stations 000
Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Karlsruhe-Neustadt is 1tph RE, 1tph RB (+ Winden-Neustadt another tph RB, but that'll be run with French-German hybrid trains not BEMUs), the others are all 1tph RB (orange line = electrified, orange box = planned catenary island, black line = where these trains will run) 160
Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Saw it two years ago at Innotrans, and today I travelled on the exact same train (6526 005) for real: the Stadler Flirt Akku BEMUs 🔋 entered service this week! :) 44 of these will run on various unelectrified lines in southern Palatinate replacing DMUs, starting with (Karlsruhe-) Landau - Neustadt 4512
Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Are 15 footnotes and 3 route variants on one timetable really necessary? 🥹 2110
Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Zürich HB has this system where both track options are communicated in advance, and only when it's actually decided by the signaller, the real track number is shown 050
Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Happy to have been at Innotrans for one day ☺️ saw a lot of trains (but really just a small fraction of the actual exhibition), and met so many people! Now going back home on the ICE with very exhausted legs and social battery 😴 2232
Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 21/09/2026haha crazy, kinda seems too deliberate? Maybe like "this is for connecting between the outer lines, let's not oversaturate with people of the inner lines interchanging"? 010
Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Some new signs for @macsquirelera.bsky.social to find typos on 160
Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 21/09/2026people always dislike it and joke about it, but I like "my" station Hagen Hauptbahnhof, just feels like home. It is finally getting a refresh currently! yes, that's me, it's been a while also I got to tour some abandoned parts of the station a few years back, which was pretty cool :) 1131
Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 14/09/2026on the other hand, there are nice quiet stations perfect to calm yourself down after almost getting a panic attack on the ICE 🙃 270
Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 12/09/2026automated high-frequency driverless metro for Cologne when? annoyed at the inadequate trams 😓 3120
Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The new Stadtbahn station at Düsseldorf Airport that just opened :) currently a 20 min frequency to Hbf via city centre, supposed to be the first part of a tangential route from Ratingen to Neuss tho It's funny that a couple stops later you get off literally in the roadway since there's no platform 1314
Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 09/09/2026changed trains today in Cologne Hbf, both trains arrived and departed punctually (!!), and it was a swift cross-platform interchange. we stopped shortly on the bridge because we were too EARLY (!!!) 0120
Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Saw a big lion recently. Heard the artist also made a certain flame-holding statue before 271
Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I really hate how everything's suddenly becoming classified 😠 Costs of rail renovations? Business secret. Detailed diagrams of any railway plannings? Security-critical, so a secret. 3170
Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Quotes from the press release about rather scandalous bus cuts in Märkischer Kreis effective tomorrow 2 September: these cuts are being done without democratic vote, transparent decision making, public participation or coordination with the district's neighbours www.mvg-online.de/unternehmen/... 160
Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 01/09/2026peak SNCF experience yesterday. already sat on the train and then "attention voyageurs...!" 0140
Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 28/08/2026there are divided opinions in our group if this is quite cool or quite bad architecture-wise 1101
Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Thanks to the US Air Force, my train is terminating a station short of where it's supposed to go 🙄 160
Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Which streetscape would you prefer? (I'm standing in the same spot) 260
Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 19/08/2026This was right next to Acla da Fontauna station, on a short walk to La Pendeta hanging bridge over the Rhine 030
Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Imagine big driverless iron ore trains going from like Leeuwarden to Heerlen 😵💫😯 140
Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 15/08/2026In a couple months, the current era will be over, when this line will be automated to unattended operation (GoA4). I believe that will result in the first regular automated railway with a fairly major level crossing (at Ruderbach station across national road 7)? 1170
Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 15/08/2026What a wacky train, I love it 🤪 Former funicular plus world's shortest tram line turned mixed rack and flat railway with a gauge of 1,200 mm, shuttling back and forth every 30 minutes on a 6 minute journey as S-Bahn route S26 1251
Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Helpful wayfinding display to decide which platform to head to (southbound trains may depart from either platform) 190
Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Passed by one of the new long-distance EMUs for Norway's Norske Tog, FLIRT Nordic Express, made by Stadler at their nearby plant in St. Margarethen SG www.norsketog.no/en/projects/... 0110
Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Oh and it's also a rack railway going up a steep hill with views of Lake Constance 190