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Train companies specifically were successful in lobbying the government to change the law after the 9€ ticket and before the Deutschland-Ticket to define the Deutschland-Ticket as such a "significantly reduced fare". With 'normal' Nahverkehr tickets, such as singles or regular monthly passes, it...

North of Karlsruhe there are two lines towards Mannheim and then Frankfurt (but still not enough, relief lines Frankfurt-Mannheim and Mannheim-Karlsruhe are being planned) South of Offenburg the line is still 2 tracks only mostly. Supposed to be 4 tracks in the 2040s...

It's mainly important for capacity: it will finally resolve the 2 track bottleneck between Rastatt and Baden-Baden, so there'll be at least 4 tracks all the way from Karlsruhe to Offenburg. RE Karlsruhe-Offenburg will be increased from 1tph to 2tph all-day, RE Karlsruhe-Freudenstadt 1tp2h to...

Karlsruhe Hardtbahn and Albtalbahn have several loops (Neureut Kirchfeld, Ettlingen Albgaubad, Bad Herrenalb, Langensteinbach St. Barbara and Ittersbach Rathaus) in what is officially railway territory. Of course it's more a tram-like operation and the loops are due to single-ended trams

Hagen municipal operator Hagener Straßenbahn had ticket machines at some stops during the last years of the tram era, my 1975/76 timetable has a list of them. Later I only remember one machine at one of our central bus stations, but that was decommissioned sometime on the mid-2000s. Nowadays...

Hagener Straßenbahn bus 535 does a U-turn at Hagen Markt on the crossroads of Bergischer Ring / Märkischer Ring / Frankfurter Straße. I don't know how it's done regarding the traffic lights, I believe there might be a bus-only turn signal where it's possible, but I'm not sure.

Looking at https://www.bahn.de/ you can now book (some) tickets within Great Britain using their website. Would be fun to know how well their implementation is. I can hardly imagine anyone at DB knows the ins and outs of British ticketing restrictions and so on. Maybe someone with more expertise...

What do you guys mean when you say "the platform needs to be staffed"?

This works as long as passengers don't use any apps which just display the last station of a particular service, because the fake destination either isn't properly in the data feeds or the app in question doesn't show it. Then people search for trains that aren't on the boards...

I'm not up-to-date with current English legislation, how would bus operation work with a municipal bus company? Would there still be an in-house contract of the authority with its bus company instead of tendering?

Thanks Mike The accident report has been published by the German equivalent of RAIB, the Bundesstelle für Eisenbahnunfalluntersuchung (BEU) on Monday. PDF file (4MB) here...

1) no it's a 24 hour ticket. It's valid 24 hours from the point of validation. That's the time restriction. 2) Dortmund Hbf has green VRR Ticket machines (or the local DSW21 ones) where you can buy the ticket, and it'll be either valid from purchase or after punching it in the Entwerter, the...

As mentioned in post #69, the ticket you want can be bought online, just not in the SNCF Connect or IdFM apps. You need use the special "Acheter des billets" button found on this site: https://www.ter.sncf.com/hauts-de-france/tarifs-cartes/autres-tarifs-ter/billet-tarif-normal-avec-idf a single...

Download the Fairtiq app and use that to pay. Just "swipe" the button in the app before starting the journey and "swipe it back" when you've finished. It'll then find the best price

In the decision letter, there's this link to the LSPH page, but my PDF software can't manage to open it. Does anyone have the link?