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Hannover one minute delay upon arrival. I was not the only one waiting for this enno train to Wolfsburg, which departed on time.

4 Minutes delay arriving in Minden, because a delayed ICE high speed train was late. Having now an one minute cross-platform change of trains, I wasn't the only one rushing, as you all can see. This is the Transdev local train on line S1, bound for Hannover.

Arrived with a couple of minutes delay because of trackwork and opposing traffic. But with an hour before my next train leaves, I still had time to buy and eat a small lunch. RRX arrived and left about on time. These electric multiple units are a mix of single deck cab cars and double stock...

After crossing the two river Rhine streams my train reached Arnhem with a few minutes delay. Im Arnhem a VIAS-train was waiting and left on time for Germany.

Well, the light situation is not optimal for my mobile phone, but I arrive on time in Breda, as did my train to Arnhem. This is model built in the late seventies, early eighties of the last century. There were around one hundred three car and fifty four car sets. The noses could be opened to...

0641: My 0644 train to Breda zooms into Rotterdam Central station. As it is still vacation season, the station and train are not busy. The train runs over the high speed line with about 160kmh/100mph. The normal overhead line current is nominal 1,750 V DC, the high speed line has 25 kV AC...

This morning I woke up a bit early. A news app showed incoming rain, so I decided to start my journy -60, hoping to outwalk the rain. Although it was just a walk in the park, the rain was faster. The metro arrived on time for a Twenty-something ride to Rotterdam Central station.

Thanks, I read your article. During my time as a student in the 1990s there was a Schoenes Wochenende Ticket, costing DM 25, valid on al regional trains in the weekend for upto 5 persons. So we travelled from Groningen to Berlin on more than one occasion, via Leer, Braunschweig and Magdeburg...

Last Tuesday my son, his girlfriend, my girlfriend (for 20 years and counting) and I went from Rotterdam to Berlin. We walked 15 minutes to the metro (subway) station in our town, took the metro to Rotterdam Centraal. There we took the InterCityDirect train via Schiphol Airport to Amsterdam...

Thanks for your well-written trip report, I liked it a lot!

Amtrak sent me an email which updated my trip from Fullerton to Chicago on October 9. I was moved from car 431 to 430 and had a change of rooms. I'm happy for now, but as long as I'm not back in Rotterdam a lot can happen...

I think, the only gain for Amtrak with 6 wheel trucks would be to get a bigger fuel tank. But as the locomotives don't seem to run out of fuel between the logical fueling points, no real win there. Auto racks are relatively light as the cargo within the superstructure is mostly air, whether...

*Looking at the avatar of Just-Thinking-51*

The way I create a reality by filling the empty dots the titel of this thread leaves, OP mistyped his e-mail adress while booking his ticked and his ticket is looking for his master in the digital emptyness. But the other suggestions made in this thread (check payment, call, give name to...

During the meanwhile I read on Drehscheibe-online.de some of the Dosto-sets (double deckers) are being shortened because wheels for these cars are becoming scarse because a certain steel plant in Ukrain is no more... In the nineteennineties as a university student I took the local trains from...

Perhaps it was just a Covid side effect, so I don't know if this option stays, but I bought a middle-ish bucket roomette fare last autumn, saw a lower bucket fare last winter, modified my reservation to that lower fare within a few minutes and got a refund on my creditcard within a few days. I...

My wife was supposed to be on 422 from LAX to Austin, TX. We got an e-mail this morning, cancelled the ticket for a full refund and bought airplane tickets. She's now visiting friends in Seattle and hopes to be in Austin on Friday and Saturday. Still, bummer, she likes trains far more then...

I arrived with train 6 California Zephyr in Chicago yesterday. Here's the menu. Only sleeping car passengers allowed in the diner. I was happy enough with the food and service. Chicken was a bit dry-ish, but no other remarks.

I hope these cancelations are mistakes (I got one too, for an April SAC-CHI trip), but why is that not stated on the website and/or why is Amtrak not sending emails to cancel the cancelations?

Well, if electricity was off, interlocking etc. would be off, too. So speed would be 'On Sight' (25 mph-or-slower-range?). With a lot of commercial freight trains halted, even shunting diesels could propell passenger trains. I guess.