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Forget the weird machines the USians are annoying everyone with, it's TGV tuesday.
#TGV #trains #GoingFastAsFuckBoi
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Forget the weird machines the USians are annoying everyone with, it's TGV tuesday.
#TGV #trains #GoingFastAsFuckBoi
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Frequency is freedom!
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It's Overland photoshoot day!
Found my spot just outside Ararat. On a slight curve, clear sightlines and with the sun behind me.
Now all I have to do is wait and hope the train isn't running too late. It only comes through in this direction twice a week so I can't afford to miss it!
#Victoria #Australia #AustralianTrains #Gunzel #Trains #Photography
Several years of Deutsche Bahn business travel taught me something unexpected: eventually you stop fighting the system and start learning its moods, failure domains, and hidden virtues.
I wrote down the practical folklore that actually helps: apps, routing habits, delay survival, seat choices, fallback lines, and the strange civilisation of the Bordrestaurant at 250 km/h.
“A Field Manual for Three Years on Deutsche Bahn”: blog.hofstede.it/a-field-manua…
A Field Manual for Three Years on Deutsche Bahn
After years of regular business travel by Deutsche Bahn, here is the small library of habits, app picks, routing folklore, and survival gear that actually helps. Not a complaint piece. A handbook f...Christian Hofstede-Kuhn (Larvitz Blog)
Hello! We are the European Rail Passengers Union. We believe that the voices of rail passengers are key to improving cross border rail in Europe. That’s why we are starting a group to make them heard.
Join us at erpu.eu, and we’re looking forward to connecting with everyone here on the fediverse!
European Rail Passengers Union
United for a more connected and sustainable EuropeEuropean Rail Passengers Union
One journey, one ticket: the EU plans to simplify cross-border rail travel.
Buying train tickets that cover journeys across borders in the EU is about to get easier thanks to a European Commission proposal.
The newly announced passenger package will see travellers able to make single-ticket bookings across multiple rail operators in one transaction.
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#EU #Trains #EuropeanCommission #Travel #Rail #CrossBorderRail
One journey, one ticket: the EU plans to simplify cross-border rail travel.
Buying train tickets that cover journeys across borders in the EU is about to get easier thanks to a European Commission proposal. The newly announced passenger package will see travellers …Euronews
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Paddington Station #trains
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La météo nous a joué un mauvais tour quand @nini avons pris le C1 pour photographier des trains, mais ce passage surprise de ce FS ETR 1000, assurant un service Frecciarossa, était trop beau pour ne pas être filmé. Pourvu que ce soit partie remise !
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O M G, T I L.
Turns out "fold down seats" are actually named "tip-up seats".
Considering they are a backup for when the area is not used for it's primary purpose I feel like fold down makes more sense from a passenger point of view. But maybe tip-up makes more sense for an operator?
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My #introduction to this new account on toot.wales - hi, I’m Mike 👋
I live in #Penarth and am interested in local politics (especially #cycling and #activetravel), #food (both at home and out), #trains and the #southwalesmetro.
I’m a scientist and engineer and a research fellow at #Cardiff university. My other account is @drmikepj
I’m intending to use this account for more local-interest things.
Let's go back to everyone's favourite topic: #trains 🚂
Under Regulation (EC) No 1371/2007 on #rail passengers’ rights and obligations, to which services do EU rail passenger rights principally apply?
#EPSO #EPSOprep #EU #PassengerRight #RailPassengerRights
- Only to international rail between EU countries (0%, 0 votes)
- All rail journeys and services throughout the EU (100%, 4 votes)
- Only to cross‑border services by EU‑owned company (0%, 0 votes)
- Only to domestic services longer than 250 km (0%, 0 votes)
🇦🇺🚇 The first X’trapolis 2.0 train has entered passenger service in #Melbourne, #Australia, marking the start of a new locally built fleet by Alstom. Delivered under an initial €300m order for 25 trains from the #Victorian #Government, the #trains are manufactured in Dandenong and Ballarat, supporting up to 750 jobs and at least 60% local content. Based on Alstom’s Adessia platform, the six-car electric trains carry up to 1,225 passengers and feature wider doors, a continuous walkthrough and improved accessibility, including wheelchair spaces, ramps and assistive technology. Designed with stakeholder input, they aim to replace Melbourne’s oldest trains and improve reliability. A further 25 trains have been funded, with rollout continuing over the coming years.
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Melbourne’s newest train, Alstom’s X’trapolis 2.0, hits the tracks
The first X’trapolis 2.0 train has entered passenger service in Melbourne, Australia. The train has been developed in partnership with the Victorian Government and is built locally by Alstom attheresa.cede@alstomgroup.com (Alstom)
Because the signage at many stations is bad (esp for foreigners who do not read the language) and the design is often very inaccessible. There is often ONLY one way that is wheelchair accessible while abled people get many ways to choose from. It is often at only one end of a platform and if your train lets off at the other end, you are forced to race to the opposite end to see if there's an elevator and if it's even in service. #Trains #Ableism #Accessibility
Short videos like "Here's how to get from the fare gate to the far-away platforms" or "Here's how to get from the platform to the street level in this direction" are things I think would start racking up hits among people who need that accessibility but don't know that station.
I do a lot of video research on YouTube and usually find this info by accident in much larger videos that take a lot of time to watch (I like them, but not everyone has the time).
Focused videos would get hits. #Trains
⬆️ This goes for other kinds of travel to - subway, buses, ferries, streetcars... They often have byzantine ways they are sending wheelchair users and there's usually only ONE way and it's poorly signed and poorly documented. #Trains #Transport #Accessibility
My experience trying to transfer trains in Bologna Centrale yesterday (even with more than enough time to transfer....at most stations) made me think of something (of course, I think the best people for this are wheelchair-using vloggers, but even anti-ableist abled vloggers could do it):
A great way to get hits as a train vlogger would be to document for all the stations you go through (as separate videos) all the steps wheelchair and mobility aid users need to take to get around. #Trains
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Great day out this morning for the very first X'Ttapolis 2 train in regular passenger service!
This is Melbourne's newest EMU train that will start to replace the ageing, but beloved, Comeng fleet.
Many people came to ride this service to Upfield and back despite the weather and short notice.
More to come in a future video!
#Melbourne #Trains #PublicTransport #MelbourneTrains #AustralianTrains
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Trip to Berlin by #ComfortJet. Step one: the ComfortJet is cancelled, take any train.
&@£#!ffs
This was predicted last evening. And you'd think DSB, which has spare rolling stock, would put another train in that time slot. Nope: two departures of 500+ person trains just cancelled.
Anyway. Toddler and I found some seat reservations on the ONE reasonable alternative (can't make the earlier one, can't leave too late due to toddler being two #sleeptime).
Not a fun start.
Both #Bahn and #OBB have their own bees. Obviously. And their product can be bought in the online shops as rail honey.
I don't expect anything from our local Danish DSB, but do any other European rail companies sell honey?
Organic honey from ÖBB rail bees @ shop.oebb.at/en/schienenhonig/
Gleisgold - Honig der DB @ bahnshop.de/neuheiten/neu-im-s…
Gleisgold - Honig der DB
Unruhige Zeiten für die Honigbiene. Allein in Europa sind seit 1985 rund 25 Prozent der Bienenbestände zurückgegangen. Eine ernstzunehmende…bahnshop.de
"Network Rail signs PPA for renewable electricity from Welsh offshore wind farm"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Wales #Energy #Renewables #Trains
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Network Rail signs PPA for renewable electricity from Welsh offshore wind farm - edie
Network Rail will soon power most of its depots, offices and stations with renewable energy generated at RWE’s Gwynt y Mor offshore wind farm, through a five-year power purchase agreement (PPA).Joshua Neil (edie)
Your train is late. Again.
Not because of one failure—but because Europe’s rail system still runs on fragmented, half-connected software stacks.
A 4-minute delay in one country becomes 15 minutes across a border. Not exceptional. Systemic.
The EU is investing billions in rail infrastructure—but is fixing tracks enough if the software layer still doesn’t work as one?
movetheneedle.news/brands/why-…
#EU #europe #transport #mobility #trains #CrossBorderRail #technology #innovation
Why trains are delayed in Europe: the software problem behind rail disruption
Why trains are delayed in Europe: how outdated rail software, fragmented systems and cross-border complexity impact punctuality and travel reliability.www.movetheneedle.news
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How does #ÖBB manage to offer "express" trains that are slower than the regular ones, despite making fewer stops????
RJ with 2h 29min and RJX with 2h 34min.
This doesn't make any sense.
Even the tickets are more expensive for the RJX, despite taking longer.
Oh, and the same connection with #westbahn only takes 2h 22min
Why?
I mean, I know the locomotives have worse acceleration than the SMILEs of Westbahn, but why are the RJs slower than the RJXs?
And why charge more?
Does anyone know?
#trains #oebb #railjet #railjetexpress #rj551 #rjx56 #west1002 #west1004 #west1006
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Toot Toot
#TrainTrackTuesday with a bonus #train 🚂
#Cymru #Wales #NorthWales #Porthmadog #trains #trainTrack #trainTracks #WelshHighlandRailway #FfestiniogRailway #heritageRailway #steamTrain #trainspotting #railwayPhotography #ateamLocomotive #toottoot
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O M G THE COMFORTJET HAS A FRICKING CHILDREN'S CINEMA.
I can't wait to helicopter/eagle the Hobbit in there this weekend.
Meanwhile the DSB Talgo trains running the same route have a broken coffee-machine and exposed 230v outlets as the height of children's entertainment.
How can two brand new types of rolling stock, running the same long distance route at the same inflated ticket costs, be so inherently different?
Where did it all go wrong #DSB?!?
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Abendgrüsse für die Zugbubble
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Russia Bombs Passenger Trains
There are no safe places in Ukraine because of Putin's murderous ways!
This is the aftermath of a missile strike on a train in Chaplyne in Dnipropetrovsk region.
Yes, there were casualties.
#AureFreePress #News #Russia #trains #BreakingNews
More News at @Free_Press
"Almost half of EU’s busiest flight routes are ‘hard or impossible’ to book on trains – report"
#EU #EuropeanUnion #Trains #Flights
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Almost half of EU’s busiest flight routes are ‘hard or impossible’ to book on trains – report
‘Stone age’ system of booking cross-border rail tickets holding back climate action by consumers, says thinktankAjit Niranjan (the Guardian)
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A video of this train museum: youtu.be/CRngiJ8Wp3Q
Old steam trains (Dampflok Museum Hermeskeil) Germany June 2025
#museum #eisenbahn #photography #YouTube #trains #Germany #railway
Old steam trains (Dampflok Museum Hermeskeil) Germany June 2025 (non urbex not abandoned, railway)
A video made with the DJI pocket 3 form some old trains in a train museum in Hermeskeil, Germany.Music: The following music was used for this media project:...lostintimeNL (YouTube)
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Indian Railways - Always A Great Adventure
(Details In The Alt Text) (Scanned 35mm Negative)
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#AltText #NoAI #No2AI #Photography #Photo #POTD #PhotoOfTheDay #Travel #TravelPhotography #India #Street #IndianRailways #Rail #Tracks #Rails #Landscape #Track #IndianRail #LandscapePhotography #BNW #BlackAndWhite #Asia #Asian #People #Monochrome #Railroad #Railroads #StreetPhotography #Railway #Railways #BlackAndWhitePhotography #Train #Trains #CamelCase
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Continuing the journey to #ElixirConf EU on the AVE Internacional from Avignon to Madrid. #trains #renfe #spain #sustainability 🇫🇷🚄🇪🇸
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🐉🧱 Dutch-Canadian animator Co Hoedeman uses colorful wooden building block #toys to create a #stopmotion #city and its characters in the 1972 #film Tchou-tchou.
The blocks tilt and slide to express emotions while the #story unfolds without any dialogue using a percussive #soundtrack.
👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/toy-block-drag…
#1970s #20thcentury #animation #dragon #drawing #illustrations #kids #music #sounds #trains #vehicles #wood #tksst #video
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These are the smallest trains in Germany!#frankfurt #feldbahn #trains #small #frankfurtammain #germany #deutschland #zug #eisenbahn #history
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Just received my contributor copy of a Lonely Planet book which was published in September: Epic Train Trips of the World (LP tends to be slow at supplying author copies, for some reason).
I wrote the sections about the Eastern & Oriental Express (Singapore-Malaysia) and the Northern Explorer (New Zealand). Must say it's a beautifully produced coffee table book and weighs a ton (well, 1.5kg or so). Lovely glossy thick pages, a pleasure to turn.
Here's the link if you're interested in getting a copy: shop.lonelyplanet.com/products…
#travel #train #trains #book #books
Epic Train Trips of the World
Discover 50 first-person stories plus 150 extra suggestions for out-of-this-world adventures by train.Lonely Planet
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Yesterday, we took a ride along the East Lancashire Railway. My father-in-law used to fire the engines of steam locomotives (in the late 1950s/early 1960s), so this must have brought back fond memories for him. He often tells us about cooking breakfasts on a shovel and goes into great detail when describing the trains he used to help operate. The driver kindly took him onto the footplate, where he could get a closer look at the controls.
Our thoroughly enjoyable journey from Rawtenstall to Heywood (and back) was powered by Tornado. As the Legends of Steam III event was taking place this weekend, there were plenty of rail enthusiasts present 🚂
#trains #steamtrains #history #neurodivergent #ActuallyAutistic #adhd #AuDHD #neurospicy
🚂⚖️ Inventor Louis Brennan developed a self-balancing #train that remained upright on one rail using heavy, fast-spinning #gyroscopes. The 1910 #engineering project showed how #physics allowed a vehicle to lean into turns and stay stable even when stopped. Archival footage captures the full-scale prototype during its public debut in #London.
👉 openculture.com/2026/04/the-se…
#science #history #transportation #trains #innovation #vintage
The Self-Balancing Monorail: A 1910 Train That Could Balance Without Falling
If monorails have a bad name, The Simpsons may be to blame.Colin Marshall (Open Culture)
“ 8-year-old's 'Sweet Monsters' Drawing Chosen as Winning Design to Decorate Real Train” goodnewsnetwork.org/232208-2/
8-year-old's 'Sweet Monsters' Drawing Chosen as Winning Design to Decorate Real Train
"With the drawing competition, NS wants to inspire children in a playful way for train travel," the translated statement from NS said.Andy Corbley (Good News Network)
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13. Inside of the Long Island Railroad (best way to get to JFK airport)
$5.25 from Atlantic Terminal to Jamaica, then $8 from Jamaica to JFK (on the AirTrain)
“With an average weekday ridership of 336,300 passengers in 2025, it is the busiest commuter railroad in North America. It is also one of the world's few commuter systems that run 24/7 year-round.”
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More New York subway.
The 7 train goes to the largest one of the biggest hubs of Chinese food outside of East Asia (Flushing, Queens). Way more regional variety than most places.
radii.co/article/the-ultimate-…
The Ultimate Flushing Food Guide: Best Restaurants, Bakeries, and Street Eats - RADII
Taste your way through Flushing Chinatown with our curated picks of the neighborhood’s must-try restaurants and snacks.Moren Mao (RADII - Transcend boundaries)
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12. New York subway
I’ll always have a soft spot for it
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11. Northeast Regional train to New York City
It stops at Newark airport on the way to New York City.
If I lived here I guess I would be on this often. The Acela costs more and is a little bit faster, but I haven’t ridden it yet
Something for the fans of @trains: A train ride video where the season changes every 30 seconds.
"watch as the journey transforms into a beautiful night with a full moon, or a dazzling red sky at sunrise, in just a few seconds"
youtube.com/watch?v=SLM4-pUrqh…
🇳🇱 The Most Unique Cab Ride Video I Have Ever Made: 4 Seasons Cabview!
One of the joys of being a train driver is seeing the seasons change. In this unique video, you'll see it happen every half minute! But that's not all: watch...Cabview Holland Dutch Railways (YouTube)
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Last couple of days:
- Coast Starlight (Emeryville to Los Angeles)
- Southwest Chief (Los Angeles to Albuquerque)
Then I flew to Atlanta and I have two more cities (Philadelphia and New York City) before leaving the country
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8. MARTA in Atlanta, Georgia
Don’t have a fun fact, but wow these trains are really old