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    Old/Unusual Traction in Switzerland

    Basel-Schaffhausen-Singen has the last diesel passenger trains in Switzerland. It's German line RE3 that passes through significant parts of Switzerland (funded entirely by Baden-Wurttemberg due to a 1852 treaty), using 612 DMUs or diesel locos and double-deck coaches. Also RB30 from Basel with...
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    Berlin Airport (BER) to Dresden

    The BER Line itself is opened, but the Dresdner Bahn between Mahlow and Berlin Südkreuz will only be finished by December. For regional trains, the difference can be seen in this document (for whatever reason, this is a zip containing one pdf)...
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    Jointly operated bus routes in other countries.

    SB38 Hattingen - Wetter - Gevelsberg - Ennepetal is operated jointly by VER and DB Regio Bus (Rheinlandbus), on weekends it's joined with 552 Gevelsberg Hbf - Gevelsberg-Silschede - Wetter where buses change numbers in Silschede Mitte. 552 is VER-only during the week. Buses 511, 523 and 529...
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    First tendered private TER service starts

    Since 5:57 this morning, the fast Marseille-Nice TER trains are the first in France in no longer being operated by SNCF, but Transdev Sud Inter-Métropoles, who won Région SUD-PACA's public tender. Two-hourly Corail push-pull trains have been replaced by hourly trains using 16 new Régio 2N...
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    SNCF - getting hold of PDF timetables etc

    Wrzlbrnft, a user on German DSO forum, compiles all the different TER timetable PDFs in one big file. They also create a self-made TGV/LGV timetable book. Both are available here: https://gleisbaer.eu/lgv-kursbuch/
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    Portugal to privatise rail through franchising

    To be quite clear, it's specifically not required for passenger services to be competitively tendered. Rail authorities may choose to operate services in-house, i.e. using a railway operator they own themselves. For details, Article 5 (especially Subarticle 2) of the 1370/2007 European...
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    German DB App buying tickets

    Cantorisalto1 might be trying to buy a Verbundticket. What's the route that you're trying?
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    Countries with annual all line rover train or all public transport season tickets.

    Bahncard 100 is not, in fact, valid on all private rail operators. It's not good on Eurostar (ex Thalys), Westbahn or Flixtrain and I suppose some of the weirder night trains. It is valid on all tendered regional rail operations that happen to be operated by private rail operators though of...
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    Annual railway station usage statistics for other countries.

    Oh the numbers are there - they're crucial for accounting - they're just not (systematically) published! You randomly might get some data in other things, but there's no complete public data set like in the UK or elsewhere
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    Flixtrain has ordered 65 Talgo 230 high-speed trains

    Flix, the company behind Flixbus and Flixtrain, have ordered 65 Talgo 230 trainsets, the same as the ICE L that DB and DSB ordered. The volume is EUR 2.4 billion, with 30 units worth EUR 1.06 billion firmly committed. The locomotives will not come from Talgo, instead these will be provided by...
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    German public transport ticketing post D-Ticket

    Some Verkehrsverbünde have removed and/or simplified a lot of the other types of tickets, for example VRR or HVV. The price level or the continued existence of the Deutschlandticket after 2025 at all, are not guaranteed. So the different Verkehrsverbünde all deal with that situation...
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    Some questions about Mannheim / Germany

    VRN which is the Verbund around Mannheim does have Bahncard discount: https://www.vrn.de/tickets/ticketuebersicht/einzelfahrschein/bc-ticket/index.html Otherwise, Darmstadt, Heilbronn, Mosbach, Bad Wimpfen, Sinsheim (museum!), Ulm, Freiburg or lake Constance are doable, depending on your...
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    Managing a mix of stopping and through services in the Netherlands

    The service pattern of NS can be seen here: https://nieuws.ns.nl/download/c10b58e3-54fc-4577-bf95-931b03a1e12c/spoorkaart2025.pdf Indeed, the western leg from Schiphol to Sloterdijk has 12 tph, 8tph of them Hoofddorp-Amsterdam C, 2 tph Hoofddorp-Hoorn Keersenbogerd and 2 tph high-speed, but...
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    How do train operators monitor when and why trains are late? What systems do they use?

    This is similar to how it works in Germany: DB InfraGO signallers have to put in a reason when the trains in their area get delayed more than 90 seconds, which maybe corrected/put more precisely by their superiors. The TOCs can later challenge this if they think the reason given is not correct...

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