#railway — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #railway, aggregated by home.social.
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The joys of booking European train tickets: travel from Delft to Rzeszow edition.
- Look up tickets on bahn.de: well 23h of uninterrupted trains seems excessive, how about we make a stop in Berlin?
- Actually I heard there’s a sleeper train to Berlin, let’s check it out!
- Oh the only place I can book it is in europeansleeper.eu, fine I guess.
- Sleeper train only goes on specific days of the week. Well there’s one on Friday, then we can stay one day+night in Berlin before continuing to Rzeszow, perfect!
- For the way back there’s a sleeper on Sunday night, that works as well.
- Great, I have tickets for the sleeper, now let’s get the tickets from Berlin to Rzeszow!
- Uh oh: “Unfortunately, a reservation is not possible for this connection. Due to compulsory reservation, a booking is therefore not possible. Please choose another connection.” WTF?
- Let me try the Polish railway instead. What’s the website? Oh here’s polishtrains.eu, that looks plausible.
- [after entering a whole bunch of information, just before payment] “Attention! The carrier’s tariff conditions have changed. Please check the details before purchasing.”
- Ok sure, I’ll check the changed conditions. Let me pay now.
- “Attention! The carrier’s tariff conditions have changed. Please check the details before purchasing.”
- WTF?
- “Attention! The carrier’s tariff conditions have changed. Please check the details before purchasing.”
- Searches the internet
- Ok so I need to book the tickets on intercity.pl instead of polishtrains.eu? Of course, silly me.
- Well this website is not very well translated, but I’ll manage.
- I cannot buy a return ticket but need to buy two separate tickets, how annoying.
- [after buying the outbound ticket] “No offers fulfil the criteria.”
- Uhm hello I can see you have a train scheduled for this day, I would like to buy a ticket please?
- “You are purchasing a ticket well in advance. The departure station and time, as well as the arrival station and time, may change.”
- Well I guess that means I’ll just have to try again next week, I guess?
So the current status is that I spent too much time on this and have 3/4ths of my trip booked.
#Train #Railway #PublicTransport #EuropeanSleeper #EuropeByRail
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New video on my YouTube channel
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@Vibracobra23 - when all these little stations were wrenched out of the landscape nobody realised, or probably cared, that it still has an impact, and makes rural areas, in many cases, completely inaccessible, without a car. And that means that many people, looking to move out to the country, including me, need to go from using their car once a week, maybe, to using it every day.
Unless anyone knows how to teach my dog to sit, and to stay, on the handlebars of a bike..?
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Approaching Hellifield. 3 January 2026. #railway #photography
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A video of this vanished railway bridge: https://youtu.be/ZVz-v05jSAc
Remains of an old railway bridge Belgium Feb 2026
#urbex #photography #YouTube #lostplace #Belgium #railway #abandoned
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yellow train on train station during daytime
#photos #railway #ferroviaire -
Sunday, August 23, 2026
France to speed up missile deliveries to Ukraine amid critical air defense shortage . . . . . As Russia turns to jet-powered drones, Ukraine scrambles for new interceptor tech . . . . . Germany pledges additional 50 million euros in humanitarian aid to Ukraine ahead of winter . . . . . and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/08/sunday-august-23-2026/
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... And, what may be even more important in a certain way, we did it all by 🚂 ! A couple of friends were visited along, so nice time, nice views, great experiences.
#trains #railways #railroad #europe #viaduct #crossborderrail #pkp #intercity #db #sncf #tgv #ave #renfe #ice #germany #france #spain #train #railway #rails #railroads #interrail
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A video of this locomotive: https://youtu.be/JvRfqrGgfq4
Abandoned locomotive (Oude locomotief) Belgium Feb 2026
#urbex #photography #YouTube #lostplace #Belgium #railway #abandoned
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Pantyffynnon Signal Box. 21 October 2025. #railway #photography
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A video of this steam locomotive museum: https://youtu.be/CuxaNSFbfwg
Steam locomotive museum (Dampflok Museum Hermeskeil) Germany May 2026
#museum #eisenbahn #photography #YouTube #trains #Germany #railway
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Approaching Hessay. 9 August 2026. #railway #photography
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opened white and green train door
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@TristanB0 after founding a country on a rail system, and inventing time zones as a result, Canada has been derailing itself for years (yes, pun).
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/billy-bishop-jets-alto-high-speed-rail-9.7287885
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#London Waterloo has become the first major station in Britain to introduce regular dog patrols, with Cocker Spaniels Riley and Buster and Labrador Flo joining the South Western #Railway (SWR) and Network Rail Wessex security team.
The three dogs began a three-month trial this month, providing a visible deterrent and extra reassurance for customers. Their deployment is not linked to any increased threat, but forms part of wider efforts to strengthen security at the station.
The dogs are supplied by Alpha Canine Specialists, with Riley, 11, Buster, 9, and Flo, 10, making their final deployment before retirement.
Other security measures include body-worn cameras for staff, CCTV upgrades and outreach work with vulnerable young people. SWR has also received top marks in British #Transport Police's safeguarding accreditation for the past three years.
https://www.southwesternrailway.com/other/news-and-media/news/2026/august/paws-on-patrol -
Reactivating local train lines is hard, cross border lines even more so.
#train #railway #CrossBorderRail
https://jonworth.eu/the-end-for-freiburg-colmar-but-was-there-ever-a-start/
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Semaphores at Ledbury. 10 June 2018. #railway #photography
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A video of this steam locomotive museum: https://youtu.be/CuxaNSFbfwg
Steam locomotive museum (Dampflok Museum Hermeskeil) Germany May 2026
#museum #eisenbahn #photography #YouTube #trains #Germany #railway
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'Sunset on the Rails'
Willows, Queensland, late in the day. The low sun backlights the dry grass on either side of the tracks, turning every seed-head silver against the orange sky. Grass has grown so thick between the rails that the line reads as almost forgotten, just two thin strips of metal pushing toward the treeline. A sign is visible in the distance but the track beyond it disappears into the glow. #likoca #australia #railway #railroad #photography -
Welded rail. How does a modern #railway deal with extreme ambient heat expansion without fishplates?
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Network Rail and Southern #Railway have confirmed that the railway between Haywards Heath and Lewes will reopen to passengers on Tuesday 1 September, following the 13 August derailment.
Engineers are carrying out a complex recovery and repair operation, including removing damaged track and ballast, reinstating the embankment and track, and restoring signalling systems. Three derailed carriages and five others are being removed using two large cranes.
The site’s location near the River Ouse has made the work particularly challenging. Temporary foundations and platforms have been built to support specialist machinery, while teams work around the clock.
Before reopening, engineers will complete extensive testing and safety inspections. Network Rail and Southern have thanked passengers and local communities for their patience during the disruption.
https://www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/news/network-rail-and-southern-railway-confirm-1-september-planned-reopening-of-haywards-heath-to-lewes-line