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Note that the line of the right hand side of the Rhine (which usually sees a lot of freight) is currently closed for maintenance. The closure is all the way from Troisdorf (near Bonn) to Wiesbaden and will last until mid December.

After buying Siemens Charger Locos (in combination with push-pull-trainsets) for the Corridor services a procurement process to replace the LDRR fleet (Long Distance, Regional, Remote) has been going on for some time. The LDDR services include the Canadien (Toronto-Vancouer), the Ocean...

Due to the ranging wild fires train services South of Bordeaux are suspended today and at least tomorrow. No TGV/Ouigo/Intercite service from Bordeaux to Arcachon, Hendaye and Tarbes. Trains to/from Paris will be curtailed to Paris-Bordeaux. Sleeper Paris-Tarbes cancelled entirly No TER service...

The TER PACA website mentions pertubations between St Raphael and Toulon in both directions due to a fire at Les Arcs and somekind of incident at Carnoules. This might explain it. Pertubations should drag into tomorrow.

I did Toronto-Niagra-Toronto on the Amtrak/Via train in 2017. Apart from 30min delay both ways all went well. I used a Wego day pass to get around in Niagra Falls. Some ideas for the Toronto-Montreal route that I visited Kingston: Nice town on the waterfront Brockville: The old rail tunnel has...

The whole Venture introduction was plagued by issues: As they are a lot lighter than the other stock, there where issues with track circuits recognising the trains (Amtrak has has similar issues with new Siemens rolling stock on CN routes). During the Winter Ventures broke down due to snow...

VIA is at odds with Canadian National (CN) which owns most of the tracks VIA runs on. In autumn of 2024 CN imposed a minimum 32 axle requirement for certain routes citing issue with level crossings as the reason. The Venture trainsets do not meet the requirement (the have 24 axles irrc) and are...

The tram lines Rahnsdorf-Woltersdorf and Friedrichshagen-Schöneiche-Rüdersdorf are worth a visit due to the mix of rolling stock in use.

Technology Website Heise reports about a freight Shinkansen: Full article: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Japan-uses-high-speed-train-for-freight-transport-11221917.html

SNCF Traffic site (https://www.sncf-connect.com/trafficInfo) reports for South East two events on that date: Track work in Marseille St Charles Maintenance on the high speed line between Lyon and Valence Usually SNCF does not open sales until the amended timetables are fixed. Most likely these...

BBC Reporting: Eurostar cancels all services due to 'major disruption' in Channel Tunnel https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c93wkw37p0pt

Rode it a few weeks ago as a day trip from Besancon on a Saturday: TER from Besancon-Viotte to Arc-et-Senans, transfer to TER to St Claude. Return journey was St Claude to Andelot, Andelot to Dole, Dole to Besancon. Rolling stock to/from St Claude was a Class X 73500 (single unit) which got...

Around Karlsruhe/Kaiserslautern class 628 can be found on various lines Kaiserslautern-Lauterecken (pretty regularly) (Kaiserslautern-)Landstuhl-Altenglan (pretty regularly) Karlsruhe-Neustadt (when availablitiy of classes 642/643 is low) Wörth-Lauterbourg (when availablitiy of classes 642/643...

Aerial shot of the accident site (on website of broadcaster SWR): :https://www.swr.de/swraktuell/baden-wuerttemberg/1753675080599,zugunglueck-biberach-bei-nacht-100~_v-16x7@2dXL_-a253d9ef734ceed2dcb1222775e1f0a268339ea8.jpg

Let's hope for the best that nobody has lost their life in this. The train was en route from Sigmaringen to Ulm an consisted of two class 612 trainsets. Each set has 2 cars. The pictures suggest that at leat two maybe even three cars have left the tracks. We had a lot of rain, thunderstorms...

The Train de Charlevoix that ran from outskirts of Quebec City along the St. Lawrence River to the Charlevoix region ceased operations at the end of 2024 because it could not secure funding from the communities along the route. A report by Radio Canada (in French) gives some more details. I...

It's always fun when you board a DB ICE to Brussels in Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof and the whole "welcome on board this ICE..." is done in 4 languages, as it is followed directly by "we will shortly be arriving at Frankfurt Airport" in 4 languages :) .

In general, this is not correct: DB-issued saver through-tickets ("Sparpreis" etc.) bind you to the trains listed on the ticket in Switzerland as well, even if the "zugbindung" only lists the German trains. Quoting from the DBs Special International Conditions of Carriage ("Besondere...

Almost correct Rule in Germany :An expected delay of 20min and your ticket is not tied to any particular train, but becomes.a flex instead. In Germany you might also take a different route in this case. For instance in ICE via the Highspeed line to Cologne instead of an originally planned IC...

Yes, it is gone. Replacement is https://www.bahn.de/buchung/abfahrten-ankuenfte When I am on the road I use this private site for real time departure info: https://bahn.expert It shows arrivals and departure on one page and displays more information about delays/service disruptions than the...