Welcome to today's thread - #CrossBorderRail 2024 Extra Days – Warszawa Conference - Berlin - Erkner - Frankfurt (Oder) - Warszawa - Frankfurt (Oder) - Erkner - Berlin
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And why the hell am I going to Warszawa this way?
Because there are engineering works on the main line between Berlin and Erkner, and the EuroCity only starts in Frankfurt (Oder)
Were the Ostbahn Kostrzyn - Berlin electrified trains could divert over that #CrossBorderRail route. But that hasn’t happened and won’t happen soon…
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And I’m in Warszawa to speak at #Eurotrans2024 https://eurotrans2024.sgh.waw.pl/en/agenda Luckily my panel is early afternoon, allowing me to make a day trip to Warszawa
It’s not the most interesting day in terms of the borders - I know Frankfurt (Oder) - Slubice all too well. But it’ll be interesting to see how the Faeser-trashes-Schengen controls work later on. Will they control everyone, or only minorities?
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Meanwhile passing Rahnsdorf (towards Erkner)
Not to be confused with Rangsdorf (south of Schönefeld Airport)
Just as Lichterfelde is not to be confused with Lichtenrade or Lichtenberg. And Mariendorf and Marienfelde.
After all these years in Berlin I still mix them up
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#CrossBorderRail 2024 Extra Days – Warszawa Conference Train 3 of 8
RE 1 (73754)
05:50 Erkner - Frankfurt (Oder) 06:31
Ostdeutsche Eisenbahn GmbHTrain type: Siemens Desiro HC EMU, 6 carriages
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RE 1 (73754)
05:50 Erkner - Frankfurt (Oder) 06:31Distance: 56.7km
Average speed: 83km/h8 stops:
Fangschleuse
Fürstenwalde(Spree)
Berkenbrück
Briesen(Mark)
Jacobsdorf(Mark)
Pillgram
Frankfurt(Oder)-Rosengarten
Frankfurt(Oder)This train, mapped: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-extra-days-2024_1030682#11/52.3752/14.0834
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I don’t know how the train manager is so cheery before 6am on this train to Frankfurt (Oder), but good morning! Apologies if I couldn’t quite match the energy with my Guten Morgen!
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#CrossBorderRail 2024 Extra Days – Warszawa Conference Train 4 of 8
EC 41
06:49 Frankfurt (Oder) - Warszawa Centralna 10:57
DB Fernverkehr AG, PKP IntercityTrain type: Siemens Vectron locomotive, 6 carriages
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EC 41
06:49 Frankfurt (Oder) - Warszawa Centralna 10:57Distance: 477.9km
Average speed: 116km/h8 stops:
Rzepin
Świebodzin
Zbąszynek
Poznań Gl.
Konin
Kutno
Warszawa Zachodnia
Warszawa CentralnaThis train, mapped: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-extra-days-2024_1030682#8/52.255/17.775
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Szczaniec
No we weren’t meant to stop here…
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Damn, how has PKP IC messed this up?
EC 41 is now *only* compartment carriages - not ideal in itself! - and that means no bike transport
PKP IC has these decent 2nd class open carriages with bike spaces. Why not use those here still? They used to run them
Thanks @mattfullerton for alerting me to the problem, that I can confirm
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Also ALL EuroCity trains Berlin-Warszawa now are timetabled to run without bike spaces. WHY?
Trains without bike spaces I’ve encountered. But ones that used to have them and now don’t - that’s absurd!
Also all compartment carriages isn’t good either - end up with the wrong people in your compartment and that can be grim.
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All you need for Berlin-Warszawa is 160km/h DE and PL approved carriages. PKP IC has loads of these with bike spaces.
There can’t be an approval problem to run the ones with bike spaces to Germany as they used to run (unless some permission were revoked, but is that really the case here?)
So on balance of probability this is just a crap management decision - to deploy the newest compartment carriages on Berlin-Warszawa, but then they forgot about cyclists.
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At least there’s still a @diningcar though!
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Retro EP09 at Poznań
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When the sign in the train says you’re going to Warszawa Gdanska, but DB and Portal Pasazera still think the train will serve Centralna (final stop Wschodnia)
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Kutno
Typical Polish modern station. Not super charming, but functional and accessible
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So it went to Centralna. Not Gdańska. With a little delay. So I’m now in sunny Warszawa
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Oh. And I get to #Eurotrans2024 and who’s here: Bogusław Liberadzki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogus%C5%82aw_Liberadzki?wprov=sfti1#
The MEP who - as Rapporteur for the Rail Passenger Rights Regulation in 2021 - bears more political responsibility for the mess we’re in with ticketing and rights than more than anyone
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We’ve got a dude called Sönke Reise presenting at #Eurotrans2024
Perfect name
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Sadly Sönke Reise’s presentation went downhill from his name onwards. #Eurotrans2024