to brag a bit, I've repaired my personal rail coverage map 😁 This should be fairly up-to-date now, only missing a few tram details in Berlin, Vienna, Budapest etc. where I can remember everything anymore www.bahnbubble.eu/u/simonschre

🚉🇮🇪 Plans have been published for new rail stations at Blackpool and Dunkettle in Cork, part of a wider upgrade to boost commuter services. Work could start in 2027, with both sites supporting more frequent trains and park-and-ride access. www.irishrail.ie/en-ie/news/t...

presumed timetable for the French-German bimode-bivoltage Régiolis starting operation between Strasbourg 🇫🇷 and Offenburg 🇩🇪 on Monday :)

So regarding to this there are news, again. Now they will start between Offenburg and Strasbourg on May 4, but only for the trains that are serviced by SNCF, so the old blue diesel trains provided by SNCF will be replaced on May 4. We will for now have to continue with our old diesel trains x.x

Hallo :D

One of the greatest headlines ever made

Great weather, a cute branch line with battery trains, a small hike in the Black Forest and very good all-vegan Baden food at an animal sanctuary farm 🌄 what more do you want from a Saturday 🥰

Vitézy Dávid will be transport minister :o he's that total train nerd who founded BKK back in the day. Should be very good news for the railways :D

rummaged digitally through old files and found this poster I made 7 years ago I was like "who will know about this new bus when it runs just 4 times during peak hours" so I made this myself and sent it to the bus company. They printed it and hung it up 😆 pls appreciate my 'photoshop' skills 👉🏻👈🏻

food for thought: maybe your flag is a bit too derivative, if you need a sign to explain it 🫣🇦🇹

i'm in heaven (it's Budapest/Hungary public transport wayfinding heaven)

Platform Screen Doors are fine and dandy, until the driver doesn't seem to be able to stop in the correct place, and has to slowly creep forward at every stop!! I guess better than being too confident and overshooting, but still...

Unlike Friday, Westbahn's booking system was correct, so I finally made my first trip (I think) on a Chinese-made train, a CRRC Zhuzhou Panda going from St. Pölten to Vienna Interior felt a bit like someone activated dark mode, but otherwise not worse than Westbahn's Stadler EMUs

are u kidding me

tricking my superiors into me making a map for work 😈

Small trip to travel on the Hochrheinbahn a last time before electrification so that I can have a before and after. The project also sees two new stations, full rebuild of all existing ones, and two new crossing loops. The line will close in two weeks with full reopening planned for late 2027 🚧⚡

are we back?

Okay CTA. This is a good sign.

lol never seen a departure display positioned like this

I wonder if there are more colours other than blue, red and white (or maybe it's faded yellow?) I guess a full rainbow will be too difficult though :D

Construction information with three different subphases on a rail line be like 😴

belatedly, here are some of my pics from the Stuttgart 21 open day. It does look impressive. Also being able to walk through the station building (maybe for the first time? or at least in 20 yrs), made me better understand the passenger flows. Let's see how many of those days will still come 😄

Small Easter Saturday trip through the Ruhrgebiet. My first ever ride on one of Duisburg's new trams that finally arrived! Let's not forget, around a third of one of their two lines was closed on weekdays for like 10 years due to vehicle shortage 😵‍💫

surprised by today's replacement bus journey: functioning screen+announcements, attentive driver making sure everyone's on the right bus, enforced no-standing rule on the autobahn & kept to the speed light, and timetable almost worked out (we were ten mins early throughout, I guess it is a holiday)

with Jetlag Taiwan and Ludwig's tip2tip I'm getting a lot of 中文 in my feeds these days and I'm not complaining

Brand new Siemens Mireo of BW's ETCS replacement fleet, still smelling very new Displays, automatic announcements and toilet didn't work but at least these new ones have sockets at every second seat not just at 4-seat areas or only on one side only

not my German radio station just reporting on Air Canada and English-French bilingualism lol

why do they say "this area is for buildings" and then put random new trees in there lol. If they have an arrangement in mind for the buildings why not put it in directly

Kleine Erinnerung: Ihr habt nur noch knapp 24 Stunden Zeit, euch 15 % auf #Interrail zu sichern. Die Aktion endet morgen um 10 Uhr.

I totally didn't notice but TIL Germany kinda abolished zoning for housing? 🤯 Like if you want to build housing you can ignore local zoning plans: build higher or denser, or build/convert in commercial/industrial zones. For unplanned areas it doesn't have to "fit the neighborhood character" anymore

off topic but what's going on here: my jeans here look standard blue, but in fact they are very dark blue, almost black. How did they change colour in the video? 🤔🤯

My first trip on Flixtrain, just for fun 🟩 My opinion: they're fine for shortish trips, but the ride is really noisy and a bit cramped. Probably wouldn't be fun if the train was much fuller or if it was hotter (no AC)

this has the same vibes as Luxembourg 🇧🇪

having a bike really unlocks premium city living 🤩 also riding it at night when the streets are empty, it's bliss

nice two-part video series showcasing the architecture of Berlin's terminus stations Operationally today's through lines and stations are great ofc, but it's a bummer even the buildings that weren't destroyed completely were all torn down part 1: youtu.be/3j7MO567PXk part 2: youtu.be/zSFs22o0ZwA

TIL that French municipal election system is kinda crazy tbh, like how the list with the most votes automatically gets half of seats in the city council. No need for coalitions like in German city councils 🤯 also, since this election parity is obligatory for every list, even in small municipalities

Found this OG 2020 Hagen bus map still displayed in a subcontractor's bus (strike today, only them running) Those were the optimistic times after bus service was increased ☺️ nowadays my map looks a bit more chaotic (I added some bus routes outside the city boundary) www.hst-hagen.de/fileadmin/us...

I need your help, does anyone know where to get reliable timetables for trains in Georgia, or at least which lines have service and which do not?

good use of track capacity between Duisburg and Dortmund: an almost empty ICE 👍🏻

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 🫩🫩🫩