Goodmorning from the foggy Danish countryside 🇩🇰
-
@HaTetsu After the first time I was in a ComfortJet (with door sensors that work at walking speed) I ended up speed-walking right into a non-opening door in a Danish IC3..
-
If you're like me and wonder what is up with all the Siemens Vec- stuff.
Vectron: locomotive. Vec- by abusing the word "vectors" to evoke modernity. -tron as it's generally difficult to match with vec, and this is at least part of "electronic".
Vectouro: coaches. -touro as these are used for tours. Vec- to signal "system!".
Vectrain: control car. -train as with this thing you create an entire push-pull train.
Vectourotraintron would've been better.
/Train Facts
@Pepijn https://bmxmuseum.com/bikes/raleigh/38402 "the classic raleigh vektar with star wars styling and knightrider tecnology including a speedometer a fm radio and sounds console, unique sturmey archer control paddles on the handel bars one is for on/off and sound for the console and the other one is for the gear shift"
-
Not sure why but I have a lot of interest in #train toilets.
Anyway. Every time I've been on Czech ComfortJet the toilets were fine. Same today.
Today was also the sixth or so time I came to the toilet only to find someone waiting for a closed door. ... Waiting only for me to push the door just a *bit* more forceful than they had, opening it and showing it was empty. "Oh!.."
All were from DE, NL or Nordics. Somehow this design is outside our grasp of normality.
@Pepijn The ComfortJet toilets really are a fun thing! The first time I took one I basically punched the door open to the surprise of the other waiting passenger
I feel like the resistance when just pushing is just high enough that people stop pressing before it opens, it works better with some kind of impulse. -
If you're like me and wonder what is up with all the Siemens Vec- stuff.
Vectron: locomotive. Vec- by abusing the word "vectors" to evoke modernity. -tron as it's generally difficult to match with vec, and this is at least part of "electronic".
Vectouro: coaches. -touro as these are used for tours. Vec- to signal "system!".
Vectrain: control car. -train as with this thing you create an entire push-pull train.
Vectourotraintron would've been better.
/Train Facts
Dortmund Hbf has this sweet jump with tracks ending just before a cliff.
Maybe the #bahnbubble can help out my curiosity: did any train ever went over the edge here?
-
Dortmund Hbf has this sweet jump with tracks ending just before a cliff.
Maybe the #bahnbubble can help out my curiosity: did any train ever went over the edge here?
@Pepijn Presumably those metal things on the tracks are there to prevent that from happening.
-
@Pepijn Presumably those metal things on the tracks are there to prevent that from happening.
@waltman But they have their limits
-
Dortmund Hbf has this sweet jump with tracks ending just before a cliff.
Maybe the #bahnbubble can help out my curiosity: did any train ever went over the edge here?
Ok. In Wuppertal. Can see the monorail thing from the train. It's cool.
Maybe I should just stay in the train and continue to Munich
-
Ok. In Wuppertal. Can see the monorail thing from the train. It's cool.
Maybe I should just stay in the train and continue to Munich
@Pepijn Schwebebahn! Schwebebahn! SCHWEBEBAHN!!!
-
@Pepijn Schwebebahn! Schwebebahn! SCHWEBEBAHN!!!
@cazmockett Wow. It's like the little Hobbit is with me after all!
Just spend ten minutes getting a ticket. Contactless via phone: works a bit.. then fails. Card: works a bit.. then something about fraud (deal with that later). So my emergency ten physical euro it is.
Lovely change.
-
Ok. In Wuppertal. Can see the monorail thing from the train. It's cool.
Maybe I should just stay in the train and continue to Munich
Ok. This thing is amazing. It ain't no gimmick. More cities could use this.
Despite the base of the system being a 100yrs old the acceleration of the modern vehicles is FAST. Comfort of entry and exit is excellent despite it being very busy.
-
@cazmockett Wow. It's like the little Hobbit is with me after all!
Just spend ten minutes getting a ticket. Contactless via phone: works a bit.. then fails. Card: works a bit.. then something about fraud (deal with that later). So my emergency ten physical euro it is.
Lovely change.
@Pepijn
Good value! 24hours for just riding the Dangletrain or does that cover other lines too? -
Ok. This thing is amazing. It ain't no gimmick. More cities could use this.
Despite the base of the system being a 100yrs old the acceleration of the modern vehicles is FAST. Comfort of entry and exit is excellent despite it being very busy.
@Pepijn jealous!!
-
@Pepijn
Good value! 24hours for just riding the Dangletrain or does that cover other lines too?@cazmockett Dangletrain + all busses in "zone A". I think that's a rather large area of basically the entire dangletrain route + a couple km city on either side.
I will not enter any busses though. It's dangletrain all the way (and back again).
-
Ok. This thing is amazing. It ain't no gimmick. More cities could use this.
Despite the base of the system being a 100yrs old the acceleration of the modern vehicles is FAST. Comfort of entry and exit is excellent despite it being very busy.
@Pepijn I always was of the opinion that monorails aren't just another category of "gadgetbahn", despite some people insisting that they are.
The Schwebebahn is basically an upside down tram which happens to function well in it's specific environment.
"But what if it breaks down and people have to get off?! Impossible!!" The exact same goes for every cable car in the world -- and there are plenty of those.
-
Ok. This thing is amazing. It ain't no gimmick. More cities could use this.
Despite the base of the system being a 100yrs old the acceleration of the modern vehicles is FAST. Comfort of entry and exit is excellent despite it being very busy.
@Pepijn My wife is from Wuppertal. When we had just met, she explained me the Schwebebahn but somehow the "cabin hanging over the river" became something entirely different in my mind (see picture). So you can image my surprise when we finally visited Wuppertal...
-
Ok. This thing is amazing. It ain't no gimmick. More cities could use this.
Despite the base of the system being a 100yrs old the acceleration of the modern vehicles is FAST. Comfort of entry and exit is excellent despite it being very busy.
@Pepijn Definitely a bucket list item for me too, by the way.
-
@cazmockett Dangletrain + all busses in "zone A". I think that's a rather large area of basically the entire dangletrain route + a couple km city on either side.
I will not enter any busses though. It's dangletrain all the way (and back again).
@Pepijn nice!
-
Ok. This thing is amazing. It ain't no gimmick. More cities could use this.
Despite the base of the system being a 100yrs old the acceleration of the modern vehicles is FAST. Comfort of entry and exit is excellent despite it being very busy.
@Pepijn Ohhh, I didn't know they had one train that doesn't have the light blue livery, but one that's obviously a hommage to the livery of the previous trains!
-
@Pepijn Ohhh, I didn't know they had one train that doesn't have the light blue livery, but one that's obviously a hommage to the livery of the previous trains!
@geeeero Yup. Literally one out of the 35 or so they have (as I was told by the shopkeeper of the model train shop who was trying to 'upsell' me to the one he thinks is prettier).
-
Ok. This thing is amazing. It ain't no gimmick. More cities could use this.
Despite the base of the system being a 100yrs old the acceleration of the modern vehicles is FAST. Comfort of entry and exit is excellent despite it being very busy.
Wuppertal is kinda surprising in how interesting it is. Admittedly I knew only one thing about it before coming here and not even checked Wikipedia while in the train.
Besides the excellent rollercoaster, ICE connection and fancy bus-station the town is a typical car-first German town. Non-car-first places here are "dedicated specials" (see photos).
Also as a Dutch person living in Denmark I had -again- forgotten that cities can have vertical distance as well..
