I had planned to visit more lines, but it was getting late and I also wanted to go to a queer book shop (Les mots à la bouche, can recommend!), so went there from Montparnasse. Made the mistake of trying to take M13 during rush-hour. Luckily the recently fully automated M4 wasn't as overcrowded 🥲

Finde ja solche vertikalen Anzeigen mit allen bedienten Stationen wären auch was für deutsche Bahnhöfe

I find RER A pretty cool. Not just the huge trains, big stations, but also "small" things like these well-animated screens showing the stopping pattern of each train. Easier than trying to decipher the mission code (is ZEUS right for me, or should I take TERI instead?)

Saint-Denis Pleyel on M14's northern extension was certainly impressive. Especially when, as of now, barely anyone actually uses it. Let's see what it will be like when M15, M16 and M17 will also be in service. At least the umbrella rental service is already in operation!

Naming platforms something else than 1 and 2 Challenge SNCF: impossible

going on a day trip to Paris tomorrow, what cool transport things should I look at? I'm thinking M14 north and south extension, T9, RER E extension. Câble 1 is boring until it's actually open. And I've been on the TVM bus before

Willkommen zum offiziellen Start von #StadtLandBus! Die nächsten 6 Tage werde ich von Westerland(Sylt) nur mit dem Linienbus quer durch die Republik bis in den äußersten Süden fahren und dabei viele neue Orte sehen 😁 Los geht's von Westerland nach Morsum

Rastatt Tunnel construction site Pretty stunning infrastructure (I've been in some tram tunnels before, they seem tiny in comparison) Also learned more about the infamous incident of 12 August 2017 after which a TBM had to be filled with concrete and later removed in a very complex way

The DB-operated Namo Bharat trains sadly have almost no DB 'cookie' logos on them, but at least this 'Bolly Mop' robot does

Heilbronn trams use crazy technology: wide platform edges so you don't need a gap filler ramp! But Karlsruhe tram-trains can't do that technically, so the ramp still activates under the platform 🤪 (Third image from Karlsruhe for comparison)

Managed to ride the new electric unique Schönbuchbahn trains, finally in service after 5 years of technical approval shenanigans. They're really nice and accelerate fast 15 minute headway starts Monday, let's hope Schönbuchbahn can continue to live up to its reliable reputation!

American interurbans east of the Appalachians tended to have a signalling system consisting of lightbulbs attached to big wooden handles that motormen flipped by leaning out the side. Looney tunes type of railway

lmfao www.inquirer.com/opinion/lett...

starting to think daily standardised Takt is a conspiracy of timetable software companies, that make it so difficult and confusing if a train isn't planned to run every day with the same timings 😵‍💫

Karlsruhe-Stuttgart commuters biggest annoyance outside Stuttgart:

commuting through Stuttgart Hbf is like you walk your usual path to the U-Bahn, but suddenly it's closed off and they're demolishing the entrance and you miss your train 🙄

Sunday bike ride with obligatory ferry ride - being sold a barely readable ticket printed from a handheld money/ticket machine thingy, that's in the transit museum elsewhere

Unbelievable, Strasbourg's tram D is now in the DB Navigator 😱 an impossible feat now achieved

SIEBEN HUNDERT EINUNDZWANZIG MILLIONEN FÜR DREI KOMMA ZWEI KILOMETER AUTOBAHN IN EINER STADT und danach sind U- und Straßenbahnen „zu teuer“ www.rbb24.de/panorama/bei...

🚄 Neue Ära im internationalen Bahnverkehr: Die SBB will bis zu 40 mehrstromfähige Hochgeschwindigkeitszüge beschaffen. Einsatz in 🇨🇭🇫🇷🇮🇹🇪🇸🇬🇧🇧🇪🇳🇱 – Finanzierung via Operating Lease (15 Jahre).

Ich habe mal zusammengestellt, welche Kürzungen es in #Finnland durch die aktuelle Regierung bisher gab 🧵 TL;DR – Die Einschnitte ziehen sich quer durch die Gesellschaft, während von den Entlastungen nur wenige profitieren. Darum glaube ich, dass es mit dem allgemeinen Wohlbefinden bergab geht.

Work colleague who did the early service today told me he had one train this morning where he left ! 150 ! people behind in Appenweier. Weekend + nice weather + football in Strasbourg today I had a couple of football fans with me who left in Krimmeri. Also saw a extra train there.

Apart from Elizabeth Line: what other main-line railways (not metros) have platform-screen doors? Stockholm City and Odenplan have them and just right now I passed Göteborg-Liseberg, which also has them. L & S are on lines for urban rail, but the Göteborg one is just on the main line towards Malmö

European rail tendering is really dumb sometimes: when travelling from Östersund, Sweden to Trondheim, Norway you first get on a Swedish train now operated by Norwegian Railways Vy up to the border, where you change to a Norwegian train now operated by Swedish Railways SJ 🤪

Speeding up dwell time? Länstrafiken Jämtland has never heard of this (enforced front-door boarding only, almost everyone has some kind of chipcard, it takes 10 seconds per person to validate the chipcard)

Swedish Intercitys are really goth

Driving the Offenburg - Strasbourg line again today, it’s super busy and full again in our trains, my first ride I just finished: - Left 10 people behind in Offenburg - Left 25 people and 6 bicycles behind in Appenweier - Left 4 people behind in Legelshurst Let’s see how the next rides will go.

“It would take you 723 years to delete enough emails to save the same amount of water in data centers as you could if you fixed your toilet” “If someone deleted all their photos, the water they would save could support 2 blades of grass on their lawn”

Phew, they're lucky the URL was still free!

🇪🇸🚅🇮🇹 There are railways that offer you a clear, easy-to-understand system of seat classes that makes it very simple to see what exactly you get with your ticket. And then there's the Spanish (but really Italian) Iryo.

Timetable improvements in Skulte and Tukums directions. 2015 winter, 2023 winter, 2025 winter and 2025 summer (summer service is more frequent due to beaches)

At a very early hour of 7:05, the 3-country-train from Vilnius 🇱🇹 to Valga 🇪🇪 brought us to Riga, the capital of Latvia 🇱🇻 And since it'll rain tomorrow, we used today before check-in to hop into the Baltic Sea by taking the frequent (every 30'-15'!), modern, electric train to Dubulti (Jūrmala)

I need your takes (for scientific purposes, trust me): What info do you need on a bus stop? There is an ongoing trend of getting rid of paper information (network plans, timetables, ticketing info etc.) in favour of QR-Codes. This is a controversial step and I have mixed thoughts. What do you think?

Some pics from my current Interrail trip: starting off with the quaint Usedomer Bäderbahn, a well-used island railway on the 🇩🇪🇵🇱 Baltic island. 30 min takt in summer on the main line! In Świnoujście, a ferry shuttles people to the PKP station on Wolin, where the daily night train to Warsaw departs

Last day of SWEG Bahn Stuttgart (SBS) - and this is their last train to and from Karlsruhe! 👋🏻 Tomorrow, DB Regio takes over their lines under the new Netz 35c contract (formerly Netz 1a) SBS itself, owned by Baden-Württemberg's state-owned SWEG, only took over in 2022, after Abellio went bankrupt

Accepting tips on how to be a great uncle, as of today 👀😁

Und Leute sagen Ticket kaufen in Deutschland ist kompliziert

Oh jongens, houd toch op met dit soort retro-meuk. Ik snap dat veel mensen oude architectuur fraaier vinden, maar om maar dan nep-historische gebouwen te gaan bouwen?

I see your TTC Streetcar construction map and I raise you Karlsruhe Phase 5

A passenger just tried to leave my train through this door, for almost one minute, he was shouting around „open the doors! Release the fucking doors!“ in the train, until another passenger told him that this door is out of order and that he needs to use another one 😂🙈 Seriously…

short video about the Hamburg U-Bahn line to Rothenburgsort that opened to the day 110 years ago and closed 87 years ago, destroyed by bombs along with the parts of the city it served. Germany's only U-Bahn line to ever close www.ndr.de/fernsehen/se... More details: gleismann.de/2.hochroth/s...

was ist hier passiert? :D 😅

i'm a U35 stan #campuslinie

Very interesting chart. Gray is motor vehicles, orange is bikes. Bike traffic spikes at rush hour, suggesting they’re being used more by commuters. Meanwhile motor vehicles have stronger use mid-day and on the weekends, suggesting work use (contractors, deliveries, etc.) and leisure.

Die Nordbrücke in Bonn soll als Autobahn von vier auf faktisch acht Spuren ausgebaut werden. Häuser müssten abgerissen werden, hunderte Menschen würden ihr Zuhause verlieren. Eine Katastrophe für den Klimaschutz. Das darf nicht so kommen, die Planung muss überarbeitet werden!

New dense urban housing on a former freight rail yard in Freiburg

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Belgium, the Canada of Europe.

The other day, I was telling friends and family how a housewife originated these Tokyo Metro transfer and exit guides, and they thought I was kidding. It used to be a well-known story. If you don't know it, here's a quick summary.