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European Traincrew Diagrams

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tynesider

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This might be a longshot, but does anybody have / able to point me in the direction of traincrew diagrams for any of the following countries: Benelux / France / Austria / Germany / Switzerland?

Any timetable period would be welcome, current or historic - Purely for personal perusal.
 
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The operator of the FernvekehrDatenbank compiled a list of the traction routes and example shifts for every DB Fernvekehr driver depot in 2018:

From talking to DB-FV conductors, the differences for them are they typically work longer distances in one go(e.g. Berlin - Munich whilst Berlin drivers only reach Nuremberg). Their agreement allows them to be rostered to lodge overnight once a week and this is usually used, even when it's not strictly necessary. The German point of view is that for say, a shift booking on at 3:45 to work the first train of the day, it's preferable to get someone lodging in a hotel right next to the station to do it than have a local employee get up even earlier.

For up to date info, there are a few German drivers that post their shift in advance on Instagram. My impression is that anyone with "special" qualifications spends most of their time making use of them. So anyone in Berlin trained on ETCS spends 80% of their time going to Nürnberg and back, anyone with training to work into Poland mostly works Berlin - Warsaw trains, and anyone in Frankfurt with a license for France spends most of their time going to Paris and back.
 
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