Welcome to today's thread - 2025 #CrossBorderRail Finale Day 8 - 16 June - Bruxelles- Köln - Hamburg, onto night train

[jon@gruene.social]

Ah

If the SJ-RDC mess wasn’t enough, DB has now managed to clog up all the platforms at Hamburg Hbf with delayed ICEs. So if the EuroNight is trying to get in here it can’t.

[jon@gruene.social]

And we’ve had about a dozen automated announcements about the delay here on the platform, and the delay goes up 10 minutes every 10 minutes ‍️

Thank goodness I’m doing this on Interrail

Buy a regular ticket for this and it’s a fortune

[jon@gruene.social]

And some dude wrote in The Guardian a week ago that night trains were often poor. And now he’s living it himself 🤪 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/11/europe-was-promised-a-new-golden-age-of-the-night-train-why-are-we-still-waiting

[jon@gruene.social]

Every

single

time

I

go

to

Sweden

the

trains

go

wrong

[jon@gruene.social]

Here’s today’s summary video

https://peertube.netzbegruenung.de/w/rKvwC3itEDb3DYxTkK3E5F

[jon@gruene.social]

#CrossBorderRail Finale Train 41 of 154
EN 346
22:03 Hamburg Hbf - Malmö C 04:01 (arrived +150)
SJ, RDC

Train type: ADTranz 101, followed by a Siemens Vectron, 8 carriages (inc. couchettes & sleeping cars)
️ (15kV ac, 25kV ac, 15kV ac)
: ️
🦽: (lift on platform)
🛜: ️
️: (at least there's breakfast)
🧳: (very narrow doors, corridors, OK once in)
🧽: (ok inside, but grimy outside, worn)

Interrail: (needs compulsory reservation, costs vary depending on class of accommodation)

[jon@gruene.social]

EN 346
22:03 Hamburg Hbf - Malmö C 04:01

Distance: 544.9km
Average speed: 91km/h

3 stops:
Padborg st
Koebenhavns Lufthavn st
Malmö Central

This train, mapped: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2025-finale_1163738#8/54.821/11.148

[jon@gruene.social]

Comedy now

The window latch is somehow broken so the window won’t close. And the window blind is stuck open

It’s 1am

I’m pretty good at fixing things. But this?

[jon@gruene.social]

Ah

Luggage lock hooked onto my mobile phone charger stops the blind springing open.

Obviously!

[jon@gruene.social]

Hello old friend!

I’m not hanging around on the knackered night train to Stockholm but am changing instead in Malmö onto a X2000 to Stockholm

Despite my general annoyance at Swedish trains, X2000 is nevertheless super

[jon@gruene.social]

So is there a ferry I can take somewhere on the way back?

@partim is laughing at me for this meanwhile

[jon@gruene.social]

Annoyingly there is no viable way to re-plan onto a ferry next weekend, and still get to Bourgogne the same day the ferry arrives somewhere.

But I have found ways around every conceivable SJ and wider Swedish rail dysfunction I think. Even if - by some shocker - the night train southbound is on time I can catch it up.

And I have 3 hours 20 mins buffer in Hamburg.

Should be enough...?

[interrailinfosvenska@mastodonsweden.se]

@jon Go to Malmö by day train and have the uncomfortable EC1195 from Copenhagen as backup?

[jon@gruene.social]

@interrailinfosvenska Yes, exactly that. The only headache: I am starting in Oslo, and everything to Kalmar *and* to Göteborg is closed. So I am on a Flixbus to Grums, and start the train trip there.

But yes, I can get to Kbh for the EuroCity if I need it (i.e. I know the EuroNight is a mess before I get to Nässjö)

Edit: Karlstad not Kalmar. I’m tired

[niels@social.data.coop]

@jon
The west coast line is blocked in Varberg June 9 - July 13, that's why Göteborg is a mess.

In that time, they switch from the old single track line to the new double tracked tunnel. This should free up a lot of capacity, I guess that's why there's suddenly so much demand for Oslo-Copenhagen paths next year.
@interrailinfosvenska