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I believe there also is a spare ICE in Basel for replacement services. There certainly is one that spends the night there and starts in the morning as domestic IC61 from Basel to Interlaken, so when a through train reverses in Basel Bad there also is a return working which may reverse in Basel.

It looks like it is. Early this morning trains until 10.00 hrs were shown as running, at the moment trains till 14.00 hrs are shown as running. Though all under the 3189xx numbers in Maastricht, so likely a change is required there. Venlo - Mönchengladbach is bustituted as all cargo and ICE...

Since the 2025 timetable indeed. On the other hand, do you really need short cross platform interchanges when the next train leaves in at most 10 minutes? Switzerland has those short interchanges with lower frequencies, then it's more an advantage. Though the solution on Arnhem - Utrecht is...

It looks like something goes wrong with the data. At the NS website there are engineering works mentioned in the evening, but that's only towards Liège. Looking at treinposities.nl trains are cancelled both towards Aachen and towards Liège in the departure information for Maastricht, but oddly...

It's actually 6tph from Utrecht to both Amsterdam Central and Zuid, however in the recent weeks there have been engineering works around Schiphol resulting in fewer trains running. The general pattern with 6tph is as follows: - 2x 3000 Den Helder - Amsterdam C. - Utrecht C. - Nijmegen - 2x 3100...

ÖBB also offers seat selection for the EC Transalpin, which consists for a large part of Swiss rolling stock.

Another one that just came to mind today: route 38 from Basel Bachgraben (CH) to Wyhlen Siedlung (D) is jointly operated by DB Südbadenbus and Basler Verkehrs-Betriebe (BVB).

The Belgian conductors perform that procedure in the Netherlands as well, on the Arriva trains from Maastricht to Liège at least. Which is somewhat funny to watch as those trains are not designed for such a procedure. So the conductor has to shout to the driver to close the doors, then the...

Another one in that area: 44 from Aachen (Germany) to Heerlen (Netherlands) is jointly operated by Arriva Netherlands and ASEAG. Quote a complicated one regarding ticketing, see https://wiki.ovinnederland.nl/wiki/Lijn_44_Heerlen_Station_-_Aachen_Hauptbahnhof

Already within my province (Utrecht) in the Netherlands a few come to mind: 295 Utrecht - Rotterdam; - Keolis (provincie Utrecht franchise) - Qbuzz (Zuid-Holland Noord franchise) 90 Utrecht - Gelkenes; - Qbuzz (DMG franchise, with green buses) - Qbuzz/U-OV (Regio Utrecht franchise, with yellow...

It was a bit of a search (as most of the unions only published on their website when they organised information sessions), but apparently the voting closes on the 11th of July. Depending on the results they'll make a decision if strikes continue or not.

Dutch subscriptions can be used towards Leer, Gronau, Emmerich and Aachen; but only on the Dutch regional cross border service. Together with an international ticket they online give discount until the border tariff point. And towards Aachen it's only allowed to use the OV-chipkaart when making...

According to articles in the media, the Dutch government has caused a lot of grief in Brussels by avoiding the ban on direct awarding as of January 1st, 2025 by awarding the concession to NS in December 2024. Competitors state the Ministry of Infrastructure has misunderstood the rules: instead...

No, I'm using the DB Navigator as well You don't have to indeed, that option "book for another person" is to book for someone else when you are not travelling yourself. In your case you just need a ticket for two persons. You'll get one ticket indeed, but it will say "2 erwachsene" somewhere at...

Where do you have to fill in the date of birth? When I do a trial booking in the app I'm able to click on "passengers/bicycles" on the home screen, then click the pencil next to "1 person" and increase the number of persons to 2. When continuing the booking I then just get a page where I have to...