Posts by deluisa@zug.network
(DIR) Post #AhdqDY515NtONfoPrc by deluisa@zug.network
2024-05-06T11:36:59Z
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Originally, the Šapjane - Rijeka - Zagreb line was electrified with the Italian 3 kV DC system, but when Yugoslavia decided to electrify more of their network, they opted for 25 kV AC. The line near Zagreb was switched to the 25kV system in the 80s, and since 2012, the system change takes place in the Croatian-Slovenian border station of Šapjane. Like many other stations with this function (including Hodoš and Spielfeld-Straß), half of the station is electrified with each of the different systems, with a short neutral stretch inbetween. That means a monocurrent locomotive lowers its pantograph entering the station, rolls into the other half, stops. A second locomotive is attached to the first one, which is removed from the train, shunted onto a different track, and then gently pushed to roll back on its own into the right part of the station. The second locomotive then returns to the train, is coupled, and pulls it out of the station.
(DIR) Post #AhdqDYrEC8SOnCMv0i by deluisa@zug.network
2024-05-06T11:51:05Z
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:sz: Slovenske železnice has its own little high-speed service: three Pendolino units, composed of three cars each, offer a InterCity Slovenija services between Maribor and Ljubljana, making the most out of the winding line in narrow valleys through their tilting capability.In Maribor, we change to a Zagreb - Graz service composed only of a single Slovenian and Croatian car each.
(DIR) Post #AhdqDZUvoWDSmKwctc by deluisa@zug.network
2024-05-06T12:00:00Z
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From Spielfeld-Straß, we continue on a regular :sbahn: -Bahn service to Graz, and after meeting up with @timstrutzi there, having a stroll around the pretty town and getting some lunch, we head eastwards to Feldbach. It's Saturday, and that means the Lokalbahn Feldbach - Bad Gleichenberg is in operation! It's a tiny local line operated by :stb: Steiermärkische Landesbahn which used to provide daily service up until a couple of years ago, when it was reduced to weekends and bank-holidays only. The future of the line, which still uses its inaugural set two of cars from the 1930s, is extremely uncertain beyond next year.
(DIR) Post #AhdqDbRSaOcyo9KslM by deluisa@zug.network
2024-05-06T12:28:35Z
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From Feldbach, we continue down the line to the Hungarian border at Szentgotthárd, where we change from a cityjet :oebb: Desiro to a :gysev: GySEV/Raaberbahn Flirt all the way to Sopron. Sopron is the main hub of the GySEV, which is owned jointly by Austria and Hungary, and operates quite extensive infrastructure especially within Hungary, where it functions as the main "competitor" (but more like in a BLS-SBB sense) to :mav: MÁV. We take the remarkably international REX6 service from Sopron, which starts in Deutschkreutz, crosses into Hungary to Sopron, then back to Austria, continuing via Wulkaprodersdorf, Ebenfurth, Wien, Bruck an der Leitha, Kittsee, to Slovakia, terminating at Bratislava-Petržalka.
(DIR) Post #AhdqDdZgemOfQFCTrc by deluisa@zug.network
2024-05-06T12:38:03Z
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Last day of the tour: Bratislava hl.st. - Brno hl.n. with :regiojet: Regiojet, as usual, a funny composition of used and new cars, all yellow from the outside, but none alike from the inside. We chose the pretty okay-ish Astra car built specifically for Regiojet.
(DIR) Post #AhdqDfNLxbif0ZReuu by deluisa@zug.network
2024-05-06T12:54:05Z
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Our original plan was to travel via local lines to Žďár nad Sázavou and take a Rychlík to Praha from there, but that was foiled by our :cz_esko: Esko train being stuck behind the delayed Railjet. Instead, we took an :cd_panter: InterPanter to Ústí nad Orlicí, :leoexpress: leo express Tenders to Letohrad, and a cute class 854 from there to Hradec Králové hl.n.A Rychlík gets us to Praha hl.n., where we get a chance to say hi to the new :european_sleeper: European Sleeper service Praha - Bruxelles. And that's it - the way back home on the ČD railjet is a bit delayed, but otherwise absolutely uneventful.
(DIR) Post #AhdqDh6lWFdgNhhRL6 by deluisa@zug.network
2024-05-06T13:10:07Z
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All in all:- Slightly north of 3200 km in 5 1/2 days- 38 trains- ~ 47h travel time- :db: :pkpic: :cd_b: :zssk: :trez: :mav: :sz: :hzpp: :oebb_pflatsch: :stb: :gysev: :regiojet: :leoexpress: 13 operators- Border crossings at Frankfurt Oderbrücke, Chałupki, Horní Lideč, Rajka, Hodoš, Dobova, Šapjane, Spielfeld-Straß, Szentgotthárd, Baumgarten-Schattendorf, Kittsee, Kúty, and Schöna- Zero missed connections, the one at Szombathely was a bit tight but the connecting train waited- Three trains delayed > 10 minutes (Rajka - Győr, Győr - Szombathely, Praha hl.n. - Berlin)- 21 individual tickets (not counting purely bus or tram tickets), and I only made a single mistake worth about 15€ (for two people)- an undetermined but likely worrisome amount of coffee from Polish, Czech, and Slovak station coffee vending machines
(DIR) Post #AiJYF7DiHaXr7VnJMO by deluisa@zug.network
2024-05-27T10:55:58Z
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:neocat_hug_ice_t: remember to hug your trains!
(DIR) Post #AlT6pk45mAIXUsDcf2 by deluisa@zug.network
2024-08-29T19:13:26Z
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@rail_ that's why they're afraid of hackers looking at the inside of their Impuls 2, someone might find out that they're not actually new but just heavily modernized EN57s :blobcatthinksmart:
(DIR) Post #AmG44GRHQZWUqAKmTw by deluisa@zug.network
2024-09-22T09:30:48Z
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If you plan to create dark matter, please warn your surroundings by sounding the Matterhorn beforehand, thank you.
(DIR) Post #AmrTX9srQqeWra11QO by deluisa@zug.network
2024-10-10T08:49:57Z
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they gave it a ^-^ face!!! :neocat_happy:
(DIR) Post #Anag4K32NPAdaM3HkG by deluisa@zug.network
2024-11-01T06:30:28Z
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(DIR) Post #AoffMJBmL9t4ff6mUy by deluisa@zug.network
2024-11-30T11:20:31Z
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Der Bahnhof ist ja echt Obrnice!
(DIR) Post #AqTbc5Z8gFBOCRPiMK by deluisa@zug.network
2025-01-26T12:22:21Z
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🇩🇪 Neigetechnik / 🇫🇷 Neigetechnik
(DIR) Post #Ar1A6KRwgkqq66m57Q by deluisa@zug.network
2025-02-11T18:19:09Z
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@puniko Jetzt mal nicht beschweren, ihr dürft öfter an die Urne als jeder andere^^ :heuteabstimmung:
(DIR) Post #Ar1A7Htze7LMUBLoWm by deluisa@zug.network
2025-02-11T18:21:44Z
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@puniko Blocherfreunde weglochern.
(DIR) Post #As5BCOnRoFOZCHEGBs by deluisa@zug.network
2025-03-15T15:01:46Z
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:blobcatlove:
(DIR) Post #As5BCPyTQjoEqlOa12 by deluisa@zug.network
2025-03-15T15:03:40Z
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(DIR) Post #Asx90bYjjMPhZlqQxU by deluisa@zug.network
2025-04-10T16:01:06Z
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The original Eurostar red
(DIR) Post #AvORgEZRpY0Vn48m6i by deluisa@zug.network
2025-06-14T19:01:20Z
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