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Good morrow, my darlings! 🌸

By German Rail was I, perforce, detained,
And granted Hannover one night more than planned.
Yet lo! The trains have seen their error plain:
This morn I fare at last for Berlin! ✨

So pack I joy within my little heart,
And eastward now shall this fair traveller go.
Berlin awaits, and yay! the journey starts! 🚆💜

#GoodMorning #BerlinBound #TrainLife #RailwayAdventures

Side effect of refunds on can recycling, guys in public trains with stinking and dripping bags. I know it's not kind, but I am very uncomfortable when they insist on hanging over you, insisting there is a can in an often already disgustingly dirty trash bins #trainlife #ns

First event of the month: off to Cheltenham Science Festival to host Can You Solve the Murder? Live 🔍 at a sold-out evening event alongside Carla Valentine (she’s the reason it’s sold out, LOL) #TrainLife

Lot of #TrainLife 🚂 in my future 😅

This is sooooo needed.

Hundreds of millions want this to work!

🚂 🇪🇺 #trains #trainlife

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_1056

A big shout-out to Lesvos Shoe and Bag Repairs at the main Wellington railway station. I have walked past there for years and never had a need to go inside. But I had a tricky repair of my wind jacket so I thought I would give them a try. They fixed it OK but their shop/workshop was a joy to behold. They must have been in the same location for decades and it shows. Old-fashioned sounds a bit patronising but the shop/workshop was how shops used to be: quirky, crowded, idiosyncratic but everything in its own place and a system that just works. Most of the four of five workers there looked like they have been there as long as the shop itself. It was like a step back in time and felt very refreshing to be honest.

(I checked the companies register and there was Lesvos Shoe and Bag Repairs registered in 1965 but is no longer. Time sounds about right though!)

#TrainLife

https://www.shoeandbagrepair.co.nz/

I outed my usually inner grumpy old man this morning and told off a schoolboy on the train for having his bag on the seat beside him. As usual these days the trains are very crowded and people were standing. I felt a bit bad for him afterwards, but I can't abide those that 'seat hog' this way.

#TrainLife #GrumpyOldMan

My daughter said to me as we shared a train ride into work this morning, "Today's the first day I feel proud for what Hungary has done."

#hungary #TrainLife

Off down to Torquay to host Can You Solve the Murder? Live 🔍 at the Agatha Christie Festival Spring Gathering tomorrow. Today’s gonna be a loooong day of #TrainLife 🚆

The train conductors still count passengers with their mechanical counters. Click, click, click as the conductor walks through the carriages.

#TrainLife

Made it from Europepark to Freiburg, where it was snowing. Hope to make it to Zurich tonight via Basel. Then Milano in the morning for a much needed cup of Italian coffee. #trainlife

Another crowded journey on a reduced capacity train while more and more take the train. At least I got a seat. And arrived at work to find toilets are out in our building. If not resolved by 10, the building with close and we will head home. In the meantime, we must either 'make do' or use public toilets nearby. Luckily I made it to the Library, 'just in time' as they say.

Weather is lovely again though.🙃

#TrainLife #OfficeLife

Good on the Wellington College boys who gave up their seats this morning at the polite request of the train driver. The train was packed due to the decreased capacity (😠) and for some strange reasons more people are catching the train these days ( :ablobthinkingfast:). The driver was very droll and witty, apologised for the cramped conditions, but said our days could only get better from here on in. (😂 )
Concerningly none of us were masked, something I will personally need to change. Lovely autumn day today, but Metlink, witty drivers aside, can go get in the bin. ( :trashfire: )

#TrainLife

Nach dem elend lauten und dreckigen Rüttelbecher TER sitze ich nun im TGV, Strasbourg–Paris. Der ganze Wagen ist voller Deutsche. Einer der Gruppe fragt den Kondi erst freundlich, ob er Deutsch spreche und dann, ob der RER-Transfer im Billet inbegriffen sei. Die Gruppe reist nach Barcelona. 🤯🤩🚂 So geht das! #TrainLife #CrossBorderRail

Today is a WFH day! And given the current conniptions with trains in the capital - sudden failures/cancellations/general chaos like yesterday evening, reduced carriage capacity at times, and half the number of working Snapper terminals at Wellington Station, this feels like a real win.

#OfficeLife
#TrainLife

Standing room only on the train this morning. According to the Train Manager, there are fewer carriages available because one of their maintenance partners "has gone out business". :ablobthinkingeyes:

#TrainLife

Good news moment.

The new Deutsche Bahn ICE trains now run between Amsterdam and Berlin 🇳🇱 🇩🇪 🚊

And the departure was on time 🤞🏽

#trainlife #trains

Good news moment. The new @[email protected] ICE trains now run between Amsterdam and Berlin 🇳🇱 🇩🇪 🚊 And the departure was on time 🤞🏽 #trainlife

Wenn man sich einmal vergegenwärtigt, was für ein Verkehrsknoten der Bahnhof von Offenburg darstellt, ist es umso erschreckender, wie wenig Service - hinsichtlich Verpflegung und Aufenthalt - sich dort bietet. Ein Mini-Zeitschriftenhandel und -Bäcker, letzterer heute geschlossen. Kaum Raum für einen Aufenthalt im Warmen. Armselig für die Stadt Offenburg und die Bahnen.

#Offenburg #Bahnhof #Schwarzwaldbahn #DeutscheBahn #Verkehrswende #Trainlife

Enjoying a quick pit stop in Jianshui before the journey continues to Dali! 🚄 The weather down here is absolutely perfect – warm, sunny, and a beautiful 15°C. Just a short break to soak up the sun before our train takes us further north. ☀️

#Jianshui #Dali #Yunnan #TravelChina #TrainLife #SunnyDays