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Me too, exactly all of that!!!

And well worth pointing out that normal tickets are valid on the very excellent Ötscherbär, the stock is now in beautiful condition, and overall it's actually pretty hellfire (having first done it in 1986 when you could still go through to Gußwerk with a 1099...). Note however that Interrail...

I am a (non-flying) moose chaser and am having exactly the same nonsense trying to plan my journeys outward from Santander to Valladolid, and back from Guilarei to Irun / Hendaye. This happens every year; RENFE just don't give a proverbial, and northern Spain is particularly notorious. I've...

A really excellent website indeed! One small thing I have however noticed is that while the main news etc. content looks right up to date, some of the other sections don't look to be, such as the year banners at the top (only go to 2024) and the links to the "Trainspotter" magazine look to be...

And I thought it was just me thinking that Guillemins is a great example of form over function! Yes, any non-underground station will of course have some weather exposure, but Guillemins in Calatrava form is dire for this, and definitely worse than its direct predecessor for being windswept and...

I don't know about formal diagrams as such, but there are lots of reports of the 1400s' workings on the ERG Groups.io group. It's pretty easy really to work out what the 1400s work, given that the service pattern is not complicated. Also there is a good app (Android, and I think also iPhone)...

Thanks for the gen, all!

Thanks, both, for flagging this. There are indeed a good few improvements, though I have to say I am finding it still extremely slow - often over 10 seconds to load. Also it doesn't seem to be very good at showing historic (i.e. closed and lifted) alignments, at least on the couple I tried -...

I'm amazed to see a note on the (unofficial, of course) Train Status PT app saying that Regua - Pocinho is apparently reopening on 9 March. Can that be right? Superb effort if so!

I find this really confusing to use! The train numbers don't seem to correspond to the DB ones, and the times are odd - I have a horrid feeling it might be changing the times displayed to match my phone's local time zone, so adding / taking off an hour.... And thanks to the gift of...

I could try declaring my requirement than I might be hungry.

Well said, I thoroughly agree - amazing photos, despite my being a confirmed diesel boy! And thanks as ever to Giugiaro for the update - even if it is somewhat depressing if unsurprising news.

Ouch! Thanks very much for the update, both - much appreciated.

I understand that, in addition to the above, the upper section of the Douro from Regua to Pocinho is now also closed - I think due to storm damage or similar? Does this indeed mean that the whole line between Caide / Marco and Pocinho is out of service at present? And is there yet any estimate...

I'm sure you're right. I won't name the service or date but on one recent journey home from Brussels the wonderful pair doing my carriage basically made clear that they regarded making passengers feel welcome as an act of resistance against miserly instructions from management. Seven of...

Having just experienced one of these contraptions for the first time, and only from Chamartin to Zamora, I can only say that everything that's been said and written about how shocking they are on pretty much every aspect of the passenger experience is entirely justified! I'm genuinely shocked...

Really useful thread, this. Probably stating the obvious, but given that Interrail say the product is "in beta", it would probably be worth it if those of you who've posted problems or misgivings above let Interrail / Eurail BV know, as hopefully there might be changes /improvements yet? I...

Maybe it's worth adding that, while not a transport map as such, www.mapy.cz is pretty good for showing rail lines - and indeed even at showing the routes of long-closed rail lines.

Certainly agree about "bidding to the tender" - don't we know it! (Must admit I worked around the margins of the 2014-15 NT and TP refranchising, for sins that must have been far worse than I could have imagined...!) But as you say, risking getting off-topic so I shall shut up and wish...

Thank you, Energy, for laying that ghost that the franchise spec mandated LHCS - it's an oft-repeated myth in all sorts of fora. It never did; it was merely felt to be a pragmatic decision by First Group (and personally I don't think it was the wrong one, aside from the legitimate 'microfleets'...