Recent content by peterinsurrey

New one for me - I booked (for the first time) a Train+Hotel booking for London to Amsterdam - I can't travel on these dates now - and the booking says you can cancel the hotel, and the trains can be changed (as usually you find on train only bookings). You can't do it online - so I've called...

Maybe it’s just the Amsterdam route. I’ve voted with my feet today & booked standard for today’s return

the catering between Brussels & Amsterdam, with NS staff was present until recently, I'd love to see a public communication of its withdrawal. It may have influenced my recent ticket purchases.....

I’ve just done the opposite journey - London to Amsterdam - a simple pasty isn’t up to it. Nothing after Brussels & the crew change. In fact didn’t see the new crew. Have complained to Eurostar. Never again & I’ve booked Plus to Amsterdam since the start. The seat comfort isn’t worth the price...

more from Velim: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3p15mkoUcU&ab_channel=Tom%C3%A1%C5%A1Pelech

in comparison, the latest ICE design is here: https://www.nose.ch/en/transportation-design/db-fernverkehr/

phoned virgin. 6 weeks later, email reply saying they didn't have a clue & thus I cancelled my Virgin contract. I wonder if Deutsche Bahn have flagged them as a dodgy ISP?

it happened to me, using Virgin Media, and also a VPN. Changed to o2/Sky, no issue. Complained to Virgin, they did nothing.

I was on IC147, cross platform to ICE4 at Bad Bentheim onto IC2917, which I'm on currently, running in the same schedule to Berlin. UPDATE: better acceleration of the ICE4 appears to have made us approach Berlin HBF 10 minutes early!

How about Darnick? https://mappaus.com/d-i.html?utm_content=darnick-station-i134531 On the Parkes - Broken Hill Line, Far West New South Wales. Not much longer than one door

last few years, since Eurostar has extended to Amsterdam, I've travelled this route & used the Amsterdam-Berlin IC instead. Too many issues on the Brussels-Frankfurt ICE. Last journey (September 2022), the Eurostar lost ETCS communication when crossing into the Netherlands (emergency stop...

Happened to me once on the Metropolitan Line. First train of the day Wembley Park onto Uxbridge, so I assume more forgotten than failed: Made a nice timelapse: https://www.instagram.com/petermarsden/p/B7v8HOoJatT/?utm_medium=copy_link

some great videos from someone in Romania/Bulgaria showing what bogies have to endure: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7feJY9xqwGfUgomippJ6Uw

the original Variotrams had the design modified based off the German origins to cater for that twisty gradient on the Central Station ramps. As afar as CAF is concerned, I'd like to see how the Amsterdam CAFs handle the canal bridges over time, in light of the Combino issues

PKP Intercity has signed a 10-year contract for the provision of passenger rail services in Poland until 2030. With an aim to increase rail share in the transportation mix, large investments into new and modernized rolling stock have been announced along with it. In ten years from now, there...