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Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 6m

Does this charge from the wires or only batteries?

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Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 5h

very cool!! you've got a peak map as well?

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Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 17h

metro really only operating every 10 minutes?

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Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 18h

very fun to read though anyway! ("ich bin ein artist" lol) generally a fan of this type of departure screen, but just like the London example, there's often something bugging me (here it's whole-display messages used far too often hiding all useful information...)

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Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 22h

imho Regiobahn's worst decision was buying those crappy second-hand DMUs from Bavaria lol

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Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 22h

Ahh I see. As far as I know Regiobahn is fully the infrastructure operator on the S28 branches to Kaarst & Mettmann, only the shared sections with S8 are DB I don't know the details but wasn't the delay of the Regiobahn electrification also related to NIMBYs? At least it's finally happening now...

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Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 22h

Also re: single line operators, are you talking about truly non-DB lines, where the infrastructure is locally-owned? Or just small PSO operators? What kind of capital investments should they be doing?

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Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 22h

Hmm, I don't see how the RRX lines like RE6 would be operating any better when operated by DB Regio for example. NX doesn't have influence on the infrastructure, on the timetables, the rolling stock...?

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Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

looking at the Bebauungsplan, that plot should be a mixed-use ~20m tall house with at least 25% Wohnungen in it mitte.gis-broker.de/bplaene/0101...

mitte.gis-broker.de

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Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

en in Nederland was ik in jullie officiële hoofdstad, maar nooit echt in de regeringsstad. Alleen eens overgestapt op Hollands Spoor

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Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Zuid-Afrika was ik alleen in één van de drie hoofdsteden (Kaapstad). Spanje (alleen Donostia), en Italië (Domodossola, Esino Lario, Milano)

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Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Happy Tag der Deutschen Einheit to all those who celebrate

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Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

the tram stops that are somehow railway stations (with like a blue station board, and railway ticket machines) etc. are really fun. Like St. Gallen Spisertor or Solothurn Baseltor

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Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Fun to scroll through my photos to find these :)

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Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Example from Karlsruhe KVV. I'll check my photo library for more later 😁

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Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Finally, yippie 🥳🥳

Interrail
Dein Deutsch-Polnischer Freundschaftspass ist da

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Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

And of course for live vehicle numbers there's cool stuff like mapa.pid.cz for Prague or futar.bkk.hu for Budapest. Other mainly eastern European cities have similar maps/websites

mapa.pid.cz

Mapa PID

Online mapa vozidel Pražské integrované dopravy

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Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Unit diagrams are published by some British TOC, eg gtrailway.com/freedom-of-i... or www.greateranglia.co.uk/freedom-of-i... & I think I saw it from 🇩🇰 too somewhere String lines can be found here for all of 🇨🇭 www.oev-info.ch/de/fahrplan-... and here even live ones for 🇫🇮 juliadata.fi/live/graphic...

gtrailway.com

Freedom of information - GTR

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Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

why tf does it take more than double as long by train (5 hrs) than by bus (2-3 hrs) to go from Zagreb to Rijeka 🥴😵‍💫

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Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

looks better than what's showing for S3/9 at Westkreuz :D

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Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

you're welcome :)) I haven't gotten a reply yet 🥲

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Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Why do you say it's illegal?

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Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

hätte man sich mit einer Inhousevergabe auch einfacher machen können 😆 (gut dann hätten die evb bei der Soltauer Linie nicht mitbieten können)

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Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Karlsruhe tram company asking the brave question: what if you didn't have a tram service actually: www.kvv.de/fileadmin/us...

kvv.de

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Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

turns out the secret to improving my mental health is meeting my friends and biking more. who would have thought 🥲

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Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yeah TIL Istanbul wayfinding kinda has Budapest/London vibes

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Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Very nice video! Didn't know this channel, started scrolling on their videos and it never ends... 😆

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Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Which stolpersteine in Stuttgart have been removed? I find info about that was lost during construction but has been replaced

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Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

complain 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

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Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

They do, but if it's a federal project they pay much less. Baden-Württemberg has a couple electrifications with a different funding system that has a bigger state share

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Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

some other trains do have tables and stuff for this

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Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The state wants to have at least Neustadt - Landau - Karlsruhe electrified, but it's very low on the federal priority list to get their money :/ it also has a single track bottleneck between Winden and Wörth that's not getting an upgrade

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Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ahh, das wusste ich nicht 😅 die Wagenkästen sind ja auch ganz schön lang, vielleicht deswegen?

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Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Karlsruhe-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)

map of the Pfalznetz battery train network

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Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I still don't quite understand :D they are articulated, no? Sind doch Zweiteiler

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Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Huh I wasn't aware. Didn't notice anything special about the seat it was fine. Was only a short trip though

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Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

RE/RRX trains in the Ruhrgebiet are basically this, just on woefully inadequate infrastructure

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Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

(to be clear: these aren't the first battery trains in Germany, nor the first Stadler Flirt Akku (those run in Schleswig-Holstein). I guess I could have formulated my post better)

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Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The whole process is late however: December 2024 was supposed to be the start for the first battery trains Apart from late delivery of the trains themselves, the catenary island funding/construction is also behind. For a few years, trains will charge with stationary plugs at some stations instead 😅

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Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Saw 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

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Simon @simon514.bsky.social · 26/09/2026