Romance isnt dead

why plan/build a platform for your replacement bus somewhere, when you can just unscrew the tram stop fence and put a bus sign there

The country of electric narrow-gauge railways, running frequently from early morning to late at night: France 🇫🇷 (or at least this French town that happens to be on Basel line 10)

Level crossing gate live updates

Klingt erstmal lustig, war aber tatsächlich eine üble Diskriminierung von Minderheitenangehörigen, die ihren Kindern Namen geben wollten mit Buchstaben, die im "französischen Alphabet" nicht vorkommen. Höchste Zeit!

Absolutely beautiful out this evening

Just learned we'll have a presidential election next February. I always find our presidential election system a bit crazy, it's the federal and MPs and other politicians, and then some random celebrities, CEOs, unionists etc. appointed by the state parliaments 😳

does a train service once a year on a predictable day (always Good Friday) count as a regular train service? 😆

Not Schleswig-Holstein planning to basically undo the 1927 Flensburg station reorganisation, rebuild the old city centre terminus and close the current station 😳

Visited the Federal Constitutional Court today

Why is the most difficult thing to transfer from my old to my new phone not the bank apps, not various 2FAs, but my fucking Bahncard 🫩🫩🫩

Considering I have worked for the state transport ministry and the state rail authority, it's funny that only from this Sunday I'll have a say in how they're run, as it'll be my first ever state election :D Looking forward to casting my vote ☺️

In de categorie 'bizarre infra-projecten'. In Noorwegen wordt gewerkt aan de Rogfast-tunnel, een onderzee-tunnel op de route tussen Stavanger en Bergen. Niet alleen wordt dit de langste wegtunnel ter wereld (26 km), maar ook de diepste onder zee: maar liefst 392 meter onder zeeniveau(!).

Tick 🇱🇮✅

@larsvr.bsky.social invited me to tag along on a part of his Interrail trip: first from Karlsruhe via the Black Forest to Konstanz, and onwards into Switzerland to St. Gallen I had already spent 35€ on a Bodenseeticket, so why not take a detour from there via the Appenzeller Bahnen interurban

Croatian interior minister announced today that demining is now fully complete - 31 years after the war in Croatia ended. The MIS portal also shows no suspected areas remaining: misportal.hcr.hr/HCRweb/faces...

when the restaurant is a bit too authentic 😵‍💫 (the food was really good)

Mittlerweile ist es in den Auskünften eingetragen, dann kann ich es auch hier schreiben: Vom 04.05. bis 08.05. wird es eine Woche lang einen Probebetrieb des sog. "Zwischentaktes" auf der RS1 von/nach Blumenthal geben. Aktuell pendelt der Zug nur zwischen Bremen Hbf und Vegesack.

en.protothema.gr/2026/02/25/r... Railway.gov.gr seems to be working, and it’s very interesting. It supports only Athens - Thessaloniki trains for now, the accuracy is actually good enough to check on which track the train is on. There’s also a live feed of the front of the train, that’s crazy! 🤓

in my household it's the annual "wifi randomly starts not working every few hours" time of the year again ...

bro

"The 45-second film, made around 1897, was the first appearance on film of what might be called a robot" HELL. YES.

Found this 1982 Stuttgart map online. It's fun to see how comparatively little the routes have changed, considering *the entire system* was rebuilt (incl. some tunnels; high platforms everywhere) and regauged from 1000mm to 1435mm since then. Compare with the current map: www.vvs.de/fileadmin/2_...

Used my last free Germany gold travel day to go to Munich :)

From this December, a quarter of train services in Bulgaria 🇧🇬 will be operated by "Ivkoni Express" (known from Union Ivkoni buses), who won 2 of 3 lots of the tender, comprising trains in the country's eastern half. State-owned BDŽ won the western lot, also including all 🇷🇴🇹🇷, express and night trains

TIL that from December, one of Leipzig's S-Bahn lines will be extended off-wire using BEMUs: the S1 from Leipzig Miltitzer Allee will replace the diesel RB110 service and run half-hourly to Grimma and hourly to Döbeln app.mdr.de/mdr-aktuell/... www.lok-report.de/news/deutsch...

spotted a smol diesel engine pulling an EMU into the workshop/siding

Welcome to the world's greatest weapon of mass distraction. I cannot tell you how compulsive creating fantasy Welsh railway announcements can become. railannouncements.co.uk

A timetable of horrors

Es gibt ein Update zum Interrail data breach, den Eurail es nicht wert findet, per Email auszuschicken 😐 www.eurail.com/en/ni/data-s...

Today T6 Nord tramway opened in Lyon. The project isn't very big (just 5.5 km) but the timeline is just impressive: the project was launched in 2020, 3 years for planning, design, public consultation, permitting and contracting and less than 3 years for construction. youtu.be/XiJesxVJXFo?...

Spotted a rare weekday metre-gauge tram today 👀

Brussels finally has a government, some 600 days after the election! But unfortunately it's now confirmed that the metro 3 project is abandoned. They'll finish the grade separation of the tracks between Gare du Midi and Annessens but they'll keep running trams. What a fiasco this has all been.

Finde so alte Videos immer so spannend. Bei 4:10 dieses handbetriebene Vierrad z.B. sieht irgendwie lustig aus

crossposting from twitter because @eco.tgirl.gay told me to but, 8 months ago i tried to find a rail map that covers the entirety of tokyo and there was none that i liked so i made one :) full one in replies! 💙🚄

I'm probably one of the handful that can take advantage of DB's Gold 🥇 promo, so today I went to Hamburg 😁 The commuter ferries are almost icebreakers at the moment, strange feeling when travelling on them 😁

Why does a German dm have a 30 Renminbi discount for Chinese mainland Alipay users 🤔

🚄🇸🇰 Die Slowakei plant den Anschluss des Knotens #Bratislava an das europäische Hochgeschwindigkeitsnetz! Eine neue Studie sieht eine Verbindung ins V4- und TEN-T-Netz vor – mit neuen Strecken bis 320 km/h, modernisierten Bahnhöfen und kürzeren Fahrzeiten Richtung Wien, Brno & Budapest.

It's giving Wehrhahnlinie vibes

Tried out this weird sort-of interurban BRT to the west of Strasbourg: Inbetween villages, buses have their own lane and can queue jump cars. There's also some other signal priorisation and quite a dense timetable for a French regional bus But those high-floor buses with front-door boarding only 🫠

I recently went to the library and studied old timetables. Looking at the map, Karlsruhe trams did consolidate a number of stops on the network On the "main" axis Knielingen-Durlach, 6 less stops, signal priorisation and the tram tunnel meant 11 min faster running times (not same route anymore tho)

#Transport #Infrastructure #Ireland has launched procurement for Dublin’s #MetroLink main civil works, issuing notices for the M401 and M402 contracts. The €7.9bn programme includes tunnelling, stations and major structures for Ireland’s first #metro system. 🚇🇮🇪 www.metrolink.ie/en/news/late...

After 42 years, trains run again between Weil der Stadt and Calw - and I was on the very first train! 🥳 Changing in Weil der Stadt or Renningen, Calw residents can now go to Stuttgart or Böblingen by train. Currently hourly, once the bats get used to the trains, they'll be half-hourly from April 🦇

How many different tickets and Tarifs do you need? Divia (Dijon public transportation authorit): Yes!!

AVG really be like "let's put CBTC on a steam engine"

After more than 55 years serving the people of New South Wales, tomorrow is the last ever run in public service of a V set interurban double deck electric train. So this is the perfect time for a photographic tribute to these venerable, hard working and much loved trains. 1/n

What are some nice special nature things to do around Toronto and Montréal, possibly by GO/Exo/REM train? (apart from Niagara Falls - duh)

reading a research paper and they are really using "m" as an abbreviation for miles, what the hell

@jonworth.eu Die Regiolis-Triebzüge sind jetzt in Deutschland zugelassen. Mit gewissen Einschränkungen. Gefunden via www.drehscheibe-online.de/foren/read.p....

How come British railways are still buying loco-hauled sets?