It’s before 5am and I’m on a long distance train!
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It’s before 5am and I’m on a long distance train! That can only mean one thing - #CrossBorderRail ! This time I’m bound for Namur, Belgium via Hamburg, Cologne and Liége.
Surprisingly the 7-11 at Copenhagen Central was closed, but luckily I did pack some snacks. Also, they were struggling to open the main shutters to the platform, so ended up just taking the stairs further down.
And imagine my surprise when a EuroCity trainset arrived. My first time in one of them, and it smells brand new too!
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It’s before 5am and I’m on a long distance train! That can only mean one thing - #CrossBorderRail ! This time I’m bound for Namur, Belgium via Hamburg, Cologne and Liége.
Surprisingly the 7-11 at Copenhagen Central was closed, but luckily I did pack some snacks. Also, they were struggling to open the main shutters to the platform, so ended up just taking the stairs further down.
And imagine my surprise when a EuroCity trainset arrived. My first time in one of them, and it smells brand new too!
Ok, other than the light strips above the seats being *very* bright for a 5am departure (leading me to actually wear my sunglasses
), it definitely feels like a massive upgrade compared to fhe DSB IC3 and DB IC1s I’m used to on this route! -
Ok, other than the light strips above the seats being *very* bright for a 5am departure (leading me to actually wear my sunglasses
), it definitely feels like a massive upgrade compared to fhe DSB IC3 and DB IC1s I’m used to on this route!Hahaha somehow the train forgot to stop at Middelfart station?! What the fuck?
Edited to add: I think it might be because we’re like 20min ahead of schedule; probably because the departure from Copenhagen was moved half an hour earlier weeks ago?
Anyway the driver just came on the speaker to apologize once again - he had apparently been occupied with other things when he passed Middelfart. And it has of course been reiterated that people needing to catch a train back to don’t need a new ticket
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Hahaha somehow the train forgot to stop at Middelfart station?! What the fuck?
Edited to add: I think it might be because we’re like 20min ahead of schedule; probably because the departure from Copenhagen was moved half an hour earlier weeks ago?
Anyway the driver just came on the speaker to apologize once again - he had apparently been occupied with other things when he passed Middelfart. And it has of course been reiterated that people needing to catch a train back to don’t need a new ticket
@mercy maybe middelfart is the wolfsburg of denmark? wolfsburg is famous for trains forgetting to stop there.
have fun at the euro champs!
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@mercy maybe middelfart is the wolfsburg of denmark? wolfsburg is famous for trains forgetting to stop there.
have fun at the euro champs!
@yetzt could be! It is one of the stations that not all trains stop at - and honestly it isn’t a common stop on the Copenhagen - Hamburg line either, so I guess it might be a recent addition (I just checked my last 5 trips via Hamburg and none of them have had Middelfart as a stop).
I still find it hilarious
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@mercy maybe middelfart is the wolfsburg of denmark? wolfsburg is famous for trains forgetting to stop there.
have fun at the euro champs!
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@yetzt could be! It is one of the stations that not all trains stop at - and honestly it isn’t a common stop on the Copenhagen - Hamburg line either, so I guess it might be a recent addition (I just checked my last 5 trips via Hamburg and none of them have had Middelfart as a stop).
I still find it hilarious
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@tofticles @yetzt that does make sense! A friend of mine got stuck in the Slagelse - Ringsted chaos on Sunday and I ended up picking them up from their ICL train in Korsør of all places (since I was in Roskilde anyway so it was “only” an hour out of my way)… and they did mention that they had also stopped at Middelfart.
I guess this is all due to that stupid plan of “since we can’t run the trains on time normally, we’ll just run fewer trains and make them slower”
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@tofticles @yetzt that does make sense! A friend of mine got stuck in the Slagelse - Ringsted chaos on Sunday and I ended up picking them up from their ICL train in Korsør of all places (since I was in Roskilde anyway so it was “only” an hour out of my way)… and they did mention that they had also stopped at Middelfart.
I guess this is all due to that stupid plan of “since we can’t run the trains on time normally, we’ll just run fewer trains and make them slower”
(but I understand that that is how they usually do it 
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