Railway passenger rights can always be a bit of a pain to understand. But do i miss any valid reason here, why NS (International) refuse being rebooked onto a Eurostar to Brussels to still be there on time? Would be interesting to hear your opinions, as i am genuinely confused... 🤔

Amazing no words. I booked the below itinerary to get me to Brussels before the charter train leaves Brussels zuid at 09:28. Unfortunately my connection has ceased to exist, as it requires a 3 minute connection in Amsterdam which is shorter than the minimum connection time there.There is an Eurostar

@seatsixtyone.bsky.social Hi! I just noticed that as of today it seems, Raileurope is charging a €2 reservation fee for interrail reservations. I am currently updating interrailwiki.eu to stop recommending them as the cheapest option, but maybe seat61.com also warrants an update :)

@bahn.de Hi! I made a seat reservation for Stuttgart Hbf to Wien Hbf on the following trains, but due to delay and cancellation of my previous ICE's I was unable to get to Stuttgart in time for my ICE, can i get the €6.50 back? I don't see any way to get it back via db navigator or the website.

Hey that’s me

As if Aberdeen to Penzance wasn't silly enough, only today, there is a Penzance to Aberdeen train, that takes a longer route and takes nearly an hour longer as it goes via Wales. I am joined by @chiel.uk @nickbadley.com and some people I don't have the bluesky of, so this journey will be fun!

Well, it seems like people can find the direct trains to London again, this queue is long even just 45 minutes before planned departure!

So, I spent entirely too much time on making a map of all the engineering works on Easter Sunday so I can find a good place to stay, and it is too useful not to share here so enjoy trainlog.me/public/tag/9...

Thanks for the (unexpected) meetup! It was a very fun ride with you towards Amsterdam!

The end of an era! The farewell of @bahn.de's ICE3M - a train that once heralded the glorious expansion of high speed rail across Europe, connecting 🇳🇱, 🇧🇪 and 🇫🇷 to the ICE network. A train that even once went through the tunnel to London 🇬🇧 for a Germany <> London rail link that never came.

So good morning everyone, from a cloudy Hannover Messe/Laatzen. Today I’m gonna do something quite special, and yesterday I got here via this route: trainlog.me/public/trip/...

@jonworth.eu seems like your april fools joke can be blown into some new life :) virgintrain.de/downloads/vi...

@jonworth.eu thank you for hosting today, had great fun meeting new people today and love the conversations sparked today!

Bumped into @chiel.uk in Brussels, not quite sure what is up with their face in this photo 🤪

I visited for a whole 5 hours 15 minutes before we separated, just a little daytrip, staying the night in Brussels to then continue onwards towards NL tomorrow :)

Well, I have randomly made my way into Germany and back to accompany @arturs.co.uk for part of their day today thanks to some cheap super last minute super sparpreis tickets and a school project that was finished earlier than expected. I’ve had great fun today, thank you! trainlog.me/public/tag/c...

So I guess I’m on my way to Brussels for a nice beer and listen about European cross border rail. This is probably the last time I’ll use ICR towards Belgium with the i11 and ICNG-B’s that are slowly but surely replacing them. Bit of a bummer as I was hoping for an ICNG to charge my phone🙈

@seatsixtyone.bsky.social when are you getting domain verification🙈 bsky.social/about/blog/4...

after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"

And I am joined by Arturs today on a “quick” trip of train bashing :)

2024 stats Distance: 77220 km Time: 35 days, 2 hours, 46 minutes on trains Countries visited:19(🇳🇱🇩🇪🇧🇪🇫🇷🇪🇸🇨🇭🇦🇹🇵🇱🇨🇿🇬🇧🇮🇪🇱🇮🇸🇮🇩🇰🇸🇪🇫🇮🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹) Link: trainlog.me/public/tag/b... Notes:A busy year, over triple my train km's of 2023 😮 579 things logged in trainlog, with car, train, ferry, bus and walking trips included

in need of A Project and also Girl importantly these should be two separate things

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day

@jonworth.eu I saw the map, and first thoughts: most Dutch stations/track are at capacity, and especially Schiphol would require massive infra spending closing (part of?) one of the largest airports of Europe, which is probably not socially acceptable. Eurostar services should move to Amsterdam Zuid

Hmm yes Spotify wrapped

November stats Distance: 7405 km Time: 3 days, 16 hours, 55 minutes (88 hours) on trains Countries visited: 7(🇳🇱🇩🇪🇨🇿🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹🇵🇱) Link: trainlog.me/public/trip/... Notes: Second part of my Scandinavia/Baltic speedrun, plus long weekend in Poland

In retrospect, asking social media managers to know about DNS has been a terrible idea

Damnit no chiel.nl or chiel.eu available, so chiel.uk it is :(

Hi @jonworth.eu , I was once again reading your excellent page about eurostar jonworth.eu/the-future-o... and noticed the bit about track capacity on HSL-Zuid. The HSL is full currently, thanks to NMBS/NS upping the frequency to half hourly on Rotterdam-Belgium, and Schiphol is a major bottleneck.

I seem to have made my way into Germany to do something special👀

@jonworth.eu hi, looking at some train timetables recently (as you do), and it seems that the connection between the IC Nuit from Paris to Latour de Carol is now _much_ better, only 18 minutes instead of the almost 1.5 hours it was last year!

Well hello there