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    Farmers block railway in eastern Netherlands

    I have to admit, I understand the farmers' anger. They have been cultivating the land and feeding the people for thousands of years, of course they are not happy when some politician tells them how to do their job... according to twitter, the passengers of the Diesel GWT were brought to their...
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    Farmers block railway in eastern Netherlands

    Do these protest have to do with the new BBB party?
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    DB Derailment at Garmisch, 3 June

    Exactly! One of the guys investigated is the driver, who is at no fault as he was not speeding, the other one is the signalman, who, at 99%, is also at no fault. And, there were NO planned engineering works at the site of the accident, engineering works were planned between Farchant and...
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    DB Derailment at Garmisch, 3 June

    After the Munich Airport-Regensburg service was opened a couple of years ago, some Bombadier Talents were taken from the Munich-Garmisch-Innsbruck line to be used on the AirPort Express. So it has nothing to do with the 9€ ticket…
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    DB Derailment at Garmisch, 3 June

    It was a BR 111 pushing five Dostos, line speed was 100 km/h. Sadly today, some 23 years ago, ICE 884 Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen derailed in Eschede, where 101 people were killed.
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    [NL] Sunday 3. April 2022 Train services in the Netherlands almost completely stopped

    they didn't run one single replacement bus, with the amazing explanation "we dont have enought buses, so we dont run any buses at all". Some buses between Amsterdam, Utrecht, the Hague and Eindhofen would have been better then nothing at all, and there should have been plenty of buses available...
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    Quer-durchs-land ticket validity to Plzen

    no, it is only valid up to Kaldenkirchen, for the ive minutes over the border you have to buy a VRR ticket, or risk your luck...
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    Quer-durchs-land ticket validity to Plzen

    If you wanna go via Munich you can take a local train from Friedrichshafen to Lindau for 5,5€, from Lindau to Munich you can take the ECE Zürich-Munich for less then 20€ if you book in advance and from Munich you can then take the ALX to Prague, also for less then 20€ if you book on cd.cz. Much...
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    S- Bahn collision Munich

    I guess it happened here, between km 17,8 and km 17,6...
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    Schmid People Mover

    „Died“ is correct, „I died x times“ means „I went through hell“
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    Schmid People Mover

    the first one was over B312 road near Pfullingen, the second one is the one in Altbach you see in the video and the third one is at Betriebsbahnhof Rummelsburg station in Berlin.
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    Train Crash Czech Republic 04.08.21

    The CD driver takes over in Schwandorf, where the train changes direction for the last time, the guards change in Furth im Wald.
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    Why is the German high speed rail network so patchy?

    just to give you an example why everything always takes ages here, today the federal administrative court finally gave green light to the Fehmarnbelttunnel between D and DK. In Denmark there were 64 appeals (I hope it's the right word) against the tunnel, in Germany there were more then 6000.
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    DB BR 102--when can it start service it's a mystery

    the same **** DB did with the ECx, they bought a small series of intercity trains by Talgo, with a loco, that doesnt even exist know...:?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECx
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    DB BR 102--when can it start service it's a mystery

    you can board the new Skoda dostos in two rows at each of the two doors per car, it's significantly faster then a RJ (viaggio comfort) does anyone knows what the problem is? nearly all sources say, that the EBA (?british office of rail and road?) granted an authorisation but DB is, for whatever...
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    Wuppertal Schwebebahn services suspended

    The summers of 2018 and especially 2019 were an absolute disaster, but it is getting better every day now, we are already through the valley of tears... The government decided to pump 85 billion € into the network until 2030, in order to rebuild bridges and tracks, reduce temporally speed...
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    Germany publishes new rail strategy

    These six new 190kph Dosto trains were ordered in 2013, but there is still no certification... Not a glorious chapter for Skoda at all...
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    map of what specific lines use what signalling system?

    OpenRailwayMap unfortunately only has little information about train protection systems in the UK... link

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