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The exact german wording (https://www.vrr.de/de/tickets-tarife/ticketuebersicht/freie-fahrt-am-geburtstag/) just mentions a "Lichtbildausweis mit Geburtsdatum" (photo identification with date of birth on it) including passports, driver's licences and suchlike. The wording doesn't even require...

The shop could have well been Memoba (https://www.memoba.at/) in the Aegidigasse 5. The search term "Modellbahnladen Wien" spits out quite a few promising results on Google including previews of what to expect.

The official regulations of the DB for photography on their property (https://www.deutschebahn.com/pr-duesseldorf-de/ansprechpartner/drehgenehmigungen-1342114) state filmvorhaben@deutschebahn.com as a contact address for anything not covered by their regulations for hobby photography...

Berlin has a Büssing Präsident 14 R dating from 1962 in the pool of vehicles used on line 218.

IIRC, the sole difference between a station and a halt in Belgium is that a station has ticketing facilities and a halt doesn't have them. Hergenrath has ticketing facilities (http://www.belgianrail.be/en/stations-and-train/search-a-station/15/hergenrath.aspx), so it is a full-blown station...

The official identity is the full EVN number (as found on the solebar). As it is rather long and cumbersome, rolling stock owners usually have their own "internal" identity or identities of some sort. The national block of the EVN number seems to have become the new standard in Poland replacing...

Enschede station in the Netherlands has a track connection between the line from Germany (track 4 b) and the dutch railway system (track 4) which is usually blocked by two buffer stops.

Considering their very close relationship to the Stadtbahnwagen B, it might be worth having a look at the german operators of that type who are all in a similar situation. Bonn has gone as far as extensively rebuilding their oldest vehicles (built between 1974 and 1977 so predating most T&W...

Economy. A nuclear power station produces steam on a scale where a fireless locomotive can be charged for pretty much free (there might even be waste steam available at a suitable pressure) and fireless locomotives are pretty simple and robust technology.

The DB online application system is not exactly flawless to say the least. I have had my application at the status "End of process" ("Vorgang abgeschlossen" in german, which can also just be interpreted as "Process completed") and then disappear entirely from the system some months after the...

Most flemish people can speak French if forced hard enough but you will be way better off using English. Yet it is a good idea to learn just a tiny little bit of Dutch (Flemish is a dialect of the dutch language) as most dutch speakers, especially in a country where the language has a tradition...

The accident sounds very much like the one that happened at Dahlerau in 1971 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahlerau_train_disaster) where the signalman was left with no other option than calling the emergency services telling them that a fatal colision was about to happen. A key consequence of...

I second Mathilde for lots of interesting stuff coming through and Oberhausen-West still has semaphore signals (their replacement will finally open on the 17th of september). The mentioned path (the stairs are located on the southwestern side of the railway bridge over the Ruhrorter Straße, next...

Yes and there are plenty of examples in the narrow gauge world. The Welshpool and Llanfair Railway currently has No. 2 of the austrian Zillertalbahn as a visitor and plenty of other continental rolling stock in their home fleet (including a diesel built for Taiwan in Germany). No. 87 of the...

You will require (close to) full training to attain the country-specific qualifications. Yet, a valid european license from a foreign country indicates that you meet the common standards for train drivers in Europe. Here in Germany, there is a serve lack of operational railway staff and most...

Metropolitan Line just after it became part of London Transport in 1933 with ten (eleven, if you count the GN&C units) different EMU classes, at least four classes of steam locomotives, one class of electric locomotives and at least three types of coaching stock.

I still study statistics (on the paper) and did some tutoring on the side and I will start my apprenticeship as a signaller in September.

Isle of Man Transport https://www.gov.im/categories/travel-traffic-and-motoring/bus-and-rail/go-cards/go-explore/

Pretty much spot on. Eupen is the capital of the german speaking community of Belgium. At the time the line reopened (1984), Belgium was very keen on equally investing into both regions (the german speaking community is a part of Wallonia). As there was money to burn in Wallonia due to the...

Been there, done that (but living not too far away from Wuppertal and holding a VRR season ticket makes it rather easy just to pop by for a couple of rides). I can even claim to have been on the very first public run of the modern trains out of Vohwinkel and to have travelled on the...