Recent content by AlexNL

But that is compensated by superior acceleration characteristics. Either way, we're veering off-topic. I'm still putting my money on Flix over GoVolta.

Not really, because Germany doesn't have that much trackage where that capability could be put to good use. Take a look on OpenRailwayMap and select the 'Speed' preset - then zoom in to Germany, France, Italy and Spain. You'll quickly see that Germany has a dense network but that the amount of...

A few years ago testruns took place with a Railjet (video on Twitter showing arrival+departure of a Railjet at Montabaur), but since we don't see any Railjets in Cologne these days, I'm assuming nothing came from it. A thing of note is that the Cologne - Frankfurt high speed line sees quite...

The Talgo stock is only suitable for 230 km/h which is sufficient for a large share of the German intercity railway network, but there are a couple of routes where trains go much faster than that. And these routes carry significant passenger numbers. Examples: the Cologne - Frankfurt high speed...

GoVolta recently filed a track access application with the Dutch regulator ACM, they want to operate Amsterdam - Paris services via the high speed line from December 2028. As rolling stock they claim to want to use "second hand high speed trains available in Germany". That makes the GoVolta...

Some metal rods were found in axle counter territory, too.

The Kensal Green incident page on NRE was updated little over an hour ago, it now reads that the reduced service will continue "until further notice".

Fascinating to see that the Metrocars are still running. Me and my girlfriend (both railfans from the continent) will be in the UK for a few days in the middle of August, hopefully the old trains will do some surprise trips by then. It might be worth for us to go up North for a day.

I live in the south west of the Netherlands, a good amount of my travels to GB are done by car. For that I don't use the Channel Tunnel, instead I drive to Calais/Dunkirk and take a ferry to Dover from there. There's three operators so options aplenty, it's priced very competitively (even more...

The main reason for good product development: "I am annoyed with something and I have the skills to make a better product out of it." You've done a good job with Realtime Tickets, I've used it a couple of times last summer. :)

Update: Source and entire article: RailTech.com - Spain high-speed crash: possible rail break detected 22 hours before accident, but no alert triggered.

That's indeed a data issue. At its core the extension is very simple, which is a strength and is a weakness. The extension comes bundled with a pair of JSON files which have the stations and routing codes (CRS and TIPLOC). If memory serves me right I sourced those from some NROD data and/or...

Maybe if you install a custom browser which supports that (I don't know if those exist on iPhone?) but it will not work with the stock browser.

I happened to have seen the Firefox extension last week, that is indeed not uploaded by me. I've only tested it in Chrome and Edge. I wasn't even aware that Firefox extensions work with the same tech these days. :)

That's my extension by the way, glad you like it :D