#CrossBorderRail #LongestTrainEU Record Attempt Train 4 of 18R 741515:40 Umeå Östra - Sundsvall C 18:39Norrtåg

[jon@gruene.social]

Hamburg, only +7 amazingly. So the next leg of #LongestTrainEU will go to MANNHEIM on ICE 771

[kobold@orthographieanarchist.de]

@jon Odense ️ One of my favorite places to be.

[kobold@orthographieanarchist.de]

@jon The final frontier: Crossing Germany by train and in time. Good luck!

[moritzkraehe@zug.network]

@kobold @jon I'm pretty sure Jon is happy to be on German railways after the last couple of days. At least if something goes wrong here, there's another train an hour later!

[rainerzufall_le@mastodon.social]

@jon Did you have to go via Bad Oldesloe?

[jon@gruene.social]

@rainerzufall_le no

[rainerzufall_le@mastodon.social]

@jon Good to know. Thanks and enjoy the train to Mannheim

[jon@gruene.social]

So I wondered... as #LongestTrainEU is now amazingly ahead of schedule, could I get *further* than Genève tonight

How about a, say, 19:00 TGV Strasbourg - Lyon

Ah no

The last train between France's 8th and 2nd cities goes at... 16:15 🤬🤬🤬🤬

Going to Genève makes pretty much no sense, geographically, but the Swiss do actually like running trains. The French, not so much!

[lobingera@chaos.social]

@jon This looks like the DB search page?

[freya@raru.re]

@jon I *love* that VLTJ somehow landed on your list.

I practically grew with that song, but it's also such a remote and obscure train line in Jutland.

[juliette@mastodon.green]

@jon I studied in Strasbourg while my family lived near Lyon and did this train journey many times to go home for a holiday, but never bothered with the weekend as there was never a good train to make it work on a Friday night.

[jon@gruene.social]

@lobingera Yep. Why would I use the SNCF Connect shitshow?

[lobingera@chaos.social]

@jon ... in germany we learned, that all solutions outside of DB are better ...

[quixoticgeek@social.v.st]

@jon this is why I went via Switzerland on my way back from Barcelona. I cannot get my head round what SNCF call a timetable.

[mjr@masto.bike]

@lobingera @jon at least DB attempt to run trains at useful times. SNCF just deletes them from the schedule at first difficulty. If they even made it onto a schedule.

[jonas_bostrom@mastodonsweden.se]

@lobingera Believe it or not, but it can be worse… And bahn.de is still the best place to look upp train schedules in my opinion. Easy to use and you can find most trains in Europe there. @jon

[jon@gruene.social]

@lobingera In this case it is not true. DB Navigator is *miles* ahead of anything SNCF can make.

[rensbloom@zug.network]

@jon In case TGV 9560 to Paris is delayed (only if, probably not), you could catch a southbound intercité de nuit from Paris.

[vermeer@mstdn.social]

@jon 20 years ago there was also a night train Strasbourg-Nice. Of course that one is also long gone. Was my first night train. Entered in rainy Strasbourg ~18 degrees. Woke up in the morning to see (and smell!) lavender in the sun. Awesome!

[timwardcam@c.im]

@jon "The last train between France's 8th and 2nd cities goes at... 16:15"

No train at 19:00? Ah, a Teddy Bears' Picnic train service:

"At six o'clock their Mommies and Daddies
Will take them home to bed
Because they're tired little Teddy Bears"