Hm, I’ll remember to bring a bottle on future long distance trips

As a wheelchair user you'd have been miserable on today's train. What annoys me about the accessibility toilet specifically is that it was broken from the start, and already many hours before the train even arrived in Hamburg.

@svuorela @juliette

Add to this, the non-working elevators on many stations (various media covered this). I am glad I don’t need to travel by train regularly

Only ONE is functional. It's all the way at one end of the train in first class.

The other six are all not fully ok. Four because the strap is broken (one of those also doesn't have a functional luck).

One has the foldout changing table stuck.

The sixth, the disability toilet, is fully "out of order".

#DSB #bahn #accessibility #parenting

As I did so I opened TWO toilets that had people in them. This is also for units without broken locks: it's just a really bad non-intuitive design. Here's a video where.

To be fair: this is probably more the fault of Talgo (it's a fricking toilet door, I think humanity mastered that technology) than that of DSB.

#train #dsb

This is a thing I did not expect nor remember the first time on these Talgo trains. I wonder if it's caused by some modifications they've done recently: there's a "soft brushy seal" on most doors* that I don't remember before.

*one door doesn't have it, and the material used is not consistent.

@RensBloom

There's a mechanical connection with at least some locking mechanism at the top of the doorframe. There might be another in the sliding door mechanism.

From the inside there's just two positions. I've tried three more (am curious / pissed now) and on all the locking mechanism feels "disconnected".

No passenger facing emergency option btw.

I might look into it more if I can find some time (am working).

I looked at five toilets with changing tables. Here's the result:

- accessibility toilet: fully out of commission

- 1 normal toilet: all fine

- 3 normal toilets: child changing tables straps broken or missing

With the ONE handicapped toilet out of commission I feel for the guy in the wheelchair on his 4 hr trip.

At least one member of the train staff is even angrier than me.

#DSB #CrossBorderRail #bahn for the future

For real though: there's no easy way to alert people of this. And this is the second Talgo toilet door that I've heard of getting stuck (conductor said there was another one this morning).

I so absolutely strongly dislike these shitty trains.

How the hell did international travel go from "quiet well functional comfortable passenger cabin" to "stuck in the smelly tiny toilet of a brand new train, requiring the strength of a strong adult to break out"

#dsb #talgo #CrossBorderRail