Captain Sinister
Senior doom Monger
I see that the only NHS clinic for young people wanting to change their legal sex has been closed.
Oh: you said Trains Thread.
Oh: you said Trains Thread.
Deutsche Bahn, although the Germans complain about its delays, is head-and-shoulders better than the UK offerings, and has the benefit of being one single company, rather than 23 separate ones (or however many franchises the UK has now).
Wait until you see the „DB Navigator“ smartphone app.I remember standing in the station in Cologne looking at a terminal, figuring out how to get from Frankfurt to Gelsenkirchen, and it could even tell me which platforms trains would arrive on, days in advance! My brain couldn’t handle it.
Coming to England soon under the Future Transport Zones schemes. Will go a step beyond as well and integrate options like e-scooters, Ubers and eventually self driving cars etc as part of the local/national app(s).Wait until you see the „DB Navigator“ smartphone app.
Every ICE, Regional, local train, and all the region-specific local transport options - like trams and buses - in one single app in the palm of your hand, with ticketing included.
I have literally crossed Germany with nothing more than a smartphone and a spare pair of pants.
Which one was more useful though?Wait until you see the „DB Navigator“ smartphone app.
Every ICE, Regional, local train, and all the region-specific local transport options - like trams and buses - in one single app in the palm of your hand, with ticketing included.
I have literally crossed Germany with nothing more than a smartphone and a spare pair of pants.
I've been to Amsterdam a few times & I certainly didn't pay any attention to trainsI used to visit Amsterdam quite often, and a highlight for me was the trip to (and from) Amsterdam Centraal. Double decker trains. That left on time (to the second - I checked!) And were spotless.
Then I made numerous trips to and around Germany for the 2006 World Cup. What a different world. Deutsche Bahn. ICE trains. Hauptbahnhofs that put UK versions to shame. I used to travel from NG10 to Leicester for work on the train, and all my friends on there got bombarded with photos and texts about trains in Germany, along the lines of “is it so difficult for East Midlands Trains to do this???”. Thanks for the topic swerve - brings back some good memories.
Straight to the blue lights.I've been to Amsterdam a few times & I certainly didn't pay any attention to trains
I won't go into the highlights of my trips
I've been to Amsterdam a few times & I certainly didn't pay any attention to trains
I won't go into the highlights of my trips
Wait until you see the „DB Navigator“ smartphone app.
Every ICE, Regional, local train, and all the region-specific local transport options - like trams and buses - in one single app in the palm of your hand, with ticketing included.
I wasn't referring to the old long distance sleeper trains - Yes, they're tall but certainly not double deckers.Where? There are very very old trains with beds in them that take tens of hours to cross the country if you are calling them double deckers.
If there are double decker high speed trains I’ve certainly not seen one, I don’t think it would make sense.
There are Japanese style bullet trains. “ high speed” trains, normal trains. Those old trains are not “common place”
What impressed me about the Chinese Railway network was actually how fast they build track and infrastructure.I wasn't referring to the old long distance sleeper trains - Yes, they're tall but certainly not double deckers.
I first went on a double decker in 2002 - Shanghai to Nanjing - have also done Shanghai to Hangzhou and Suzhou a few times since then.
Yes, there's bullet trains, much of the rail infrastructure has been updated, but I was last there pre-covid and there were plenty of double deckers around.
China has also developed a high speed double decker, primarily for export but they'll more than likely also be used domestically:
Chinese double-decker trains rolling toward Europe
The first set of double-decker bullet trains for export rolled off the production line in Zhuzhou, Hunan province, on Monday.www.chinadaily.com.cn
English workers need 'more graft'...it's official.What impressed me about the Chinese Railway network was actually how fast they build track and infrastructure.
The Chinese (a great bunch of lads) lay track and the accompanying bits at astonishing speed, far faster than anywhere else in the world apparently. Their high-speed network has gone from virtually nothing to covering many of the major cities in a couple of decades, meanwhile in England, it‘s taken Thirty odd years and HS2 isn‘t even out of London yet.
My time in Germany (30 years ago now) the trains wer really poor, they were literally never on time. I still have friends in the south and they still seem to treat DB as a bit of a joke. Allegedly last winter they were running at close to 30% late?I spent a few years in and out of the Low Countries for work, and always enjoyed travelling by rail.
Deutsche Bahn, although the Germans complain about its delays, is head-and-shoulders better than the UK offerings, and has the benefit of being one single company, rather than 23 separate ones (or however many franchises the UK has now).
Germany is (many would say, finally!) investing more money into its rail network, especially the ICE Trains and in new stations - the new Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof should be finally completed in another three years, and Frankfurt is also going to build a new central station, these are massive projects, but will make rail travel here even better.
Las time I was in China (2008) was in Shezen and they were building stuff like crazy. They were building high rise blocks at the rate of one story every 5 days which is incredible really. But with all that bamboo scaffolding it didn't look too concerned with H&S!What impressed me about the Chinese Railway network was actually how fast they build track and infrastructure.
The Chinese (a great bunch of lads) lay track and the accompanying bits at astonishing speed, far faster than anywhere else in the world apparently. Their high-speed network has gone from virtually nothing to covering many of the major cities in a couple of decades, meanwhile in England, it‘s taken Thirty odd years and HS2 isn‘t even out of London yet.
Hasn't phase 2 been sub contracted to Hornby?The latest figures I've seen have phase one coming in at somewhere between £35 and £45 billion - with phase 2 sticking about another £29billion on top of that.
Probably - is he a Tory party donor?Hasn't phase 2 been sub contracted to Hornby?
While I appreciate the magnitude of your effort doing it in just your keks does sound a little showy offyWait until you see the „DB Navigator“ smartphone app.
Every ICE, Regional, local train, and all the region-specific local transport options - like trams and buses - in one single app in the palm of your hand, with ticketing included.
I have literally crossed Germany with nothing more than a smartphone and a spare pair of pants.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who watches Noel Philips' YouTube videos (for anyone who is unfamiliar, he takes plane and sometimes rail journeys and reviews the facilities on board).There's only two sleepers in the UK now, Caledonian Sleeper (London to Scotland) and GWR's Night Riviera (London to Penzance).
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