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Currently on Sabbatical. Logistics and IT are my industries. Travel and Linguistics are my hobbies. Hats are my headgear. Tea is my drink of choice. Based out of […]

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@darkphoenix As an aside, whilst going through the train possibilities, manually, on bahn.expert, we discovered that there was a BR407 that went from München to Dortmund, and that made for an interesting variant of this general idea. It turned out to be […]

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Map of an itinerary from Koblenz to Hamburg to Würzburg to Nürnberg to München to Frankfurt to Karlsruhe to Mannheim to Köln to Berlin
November 30, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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@darkphoenix It definitely was far from ideal, but given the limitations of the ICE 2 services in the north of the country (which are basically limited to the Berlin-Hannover-Köln line) there was little we could do to have an earlier arrival to Duisburg […]

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Map of an itinerary from Koblenz to Hamburg to Würzburg to Nürnberg to Berlin to Karlsruhe to Mannheim to Köln to Berlin.
November 30, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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@darkphoenix And so we got to it, and even managed to find a way of working in the Rhine Valley Line through Koblenz during the daytime, and it looked great. So I left it for the night on a high.

And next morning I finished it off... only to find the […]

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Map of an itinerary from Hamburg to Hannover to Duisburg, to Nürnberg via Koblenz, to Berlin, to Karlsruhe, to Mannheim, to Köln, to Berlin again.
November 30, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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An update on #iceagechallenge routing: it all went a bit meh, but we found alternatives.

I suppose part of the problem was that I wanted something interesting, and this routing algorithm was definitely not managing that. Whatever I did, it basically spent […]

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Map of an itinerary that goes from Hamburg to Kassel, to Fulda, to Mainz, to Siegburg/Bonn, to Frankfurt, to Duisburg, to Köln, to Berlin Map of an itinerary that goes from Frankfurt to Fulda, to Lüneburg, to Bruchsal, to Stuttgart, to Karlsruhe, to Duisburg, to Köln to Berlin
November 30, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Finally a series 3000, which were built in 1986, and were phased out last year. Mostly because they were old, but also there was a big brou-ha because the white paint was found to have asbestos.

Anyone who’s travelled in Barcelona in the past 40 years will […]

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Interior bench of an FMB Series 3000 with the iconic lighting and ceiling. Looking down the interior of a FMB Series 3000 The FMB Series 3000 driver’s cab The front of FMB 3044 with the red TMB livery
November 28, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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We move another couple of decades into the future and find ourselves in a much more familiar Series 1100, that was running from 1974 to 2009.

The seating is still plastic, but are much more ergonomic bucket seats. The metro map looks much more modern, too […]

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Interior of a FMB Series 1100 train with grey bucket seats. Look down the interior of FMB Series 1100 train The inside of the driver’s cab of the FMB Series 1100. It is very green The front of FMB M1169
November 28, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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The FMB Series 400 looks significantly more modern. It ran between 1958 and 1989.

The iconic Green and Yellow livery is iconic, and a shame they changed it. That being said, the plastic red benches are very uncomfortable

https://historia.tmb.cat/100-anys-metro/en/histories/#class-400-4692
Side view of the interior of an FMB Series 400 car, showing the shiny metallic doors, and the uncomfortable red plastic seats. View along the inside of a FMB series 400 FMB Series 400 driver’s cab The front of FMB unit 425
November 28, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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The FMB Series 100 is apparently the largest passenger train carriage in history. It’s huge. It started life in the Metro Transversal de Barcelona in 1926, what is now L1, and at the time was powered by a third rail.

It was known as the rolling living room. […]

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Interior of the FMB Series 100 showing a wooden bench and ads for Orion brand fly insecticide above the large square windows, and some other ads in oval windows. Interior of the FMB Series 100 Driver’s cab of the FMB Series 100 Front of the FMB 126 train
November 28, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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On the rails again…

Well… temporary rails. In honour of 100 years of the Barcelona Metro, TMB has brought out six models of train, most of them historical.

This is a restored Gran Metro de Barcelona Series 300 metro car that used to run between 1924 and 1987.
Interior of a GMB Series 300 metro car, with plush leather seats. A FCMB Series 400 metro car can be seen through the windows. On top of the window is a sign that says “ESTA TERMINADAMENTE PROHIBIDO ESCUPIR” - It definitely forbidden to spit
November 28, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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For reference, platform 01 is on the right of this picture, then 1 on the left, and 2 the other side of the tracks on the left.

The other thing that looks like a platform on the far right has no tracks alongside it, and there’s no public access to it.
View down a platform, with a notched extra platform on the right, and more platforms on the left. A lift directly in front
November 27, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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The Cloudflare outage stopped me from posting this #tgvtuesday lens flare.
Three Duplex TGVs, I think all Euroduplexes, lined up at platforms in Paris Gare de Lyon, with a lens flare from the sun
November 18, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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On the rails again… #interrail #crossborderrail

And it’s the day you’ve all been waiting for… it’s #tgvtuesday! My last proper one this year…

Yup, that’s right, I’m taking not one, but two long distance TGV Euroduplexes today: from Karlsruhe to Paris Est […]

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Two plush blue single seats facing a folded table in the upper floor first class compartment of a TGV Euroduplex. In the right hand seat is a small backpack. On the table there are some paper bags and a plastic bottle. Through the window, some bare trees can be seen.
November 18, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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On the rails again… #interrail

Today it’s a leisurely trip down to Karlsruhe, on an ICE3neo with @darkphoenix.

We are in a fairly packed train, as announced by the app beforehand, so we are thankful we got some reservations.

We are having lunch at the […]

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The window on the cafe car of an ICE3neo
November 17, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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I’m approaching 60,000km in over 215 trains in 15 months, Al, and you want me to Train More?!

I’d like to see how well you’ve done…
The side of a glass building outside Utrecht Centraal station, the logos for Albert Heijn supermarket and Trainmore gym are visible, and TRAINMORE in large letters is visible on the first floor.
November 16, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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On the rails again… #crossborderrail

Today it’s a somewhat convoluted trip to Aachen as part of my slow and lengthy return to Barcelona.

I am a fan of these more… social seats that some trains have , with corner sofas and the like to encourage chatting […]

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The corner seat on the bottom floor of a DDZ . Indistinct buildings and a fence can be seen through the window. On the passenger information screen we can see this a train to Rotterdam C, stopping at Amersfoort C, and the a few stations until Gouda, Rotterdam Aleksander and Rotterdam Centraal
November 16, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Today in unexpected public transport issues: on RRReis busses, you need to press the stop button for two seconds before it will register.

We learned this by ending up a 90 min walk away from where we wanted to be
Stopknop LET OP: druk de stopknop 2 seconden in om deze te activeren.
November 12, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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On the rails again…

Today I’m on a VIRM to Utrecht, and then to Apeldoorn to stay with one of my partners and a friend for a few days.

As we discovered this weekend, the Dutch railway system almost counts as a somewhat extended metro system, and is […]

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Four facing seats next to a small window on the interior of a second class carriage on a VIRM. Through the window a SNCB EuroCity can be seen, recently arrived from Brussels
November 10, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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[Selfie, ec]

Any guesses as to where I am?

Hint: it’s not Liverpool, not Rome, and definitely not home
Selfie in front of a weird triangular building with the words “Centraal station” on the front
November 10, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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It seems that @darkphoenix is also closer to an aquarium than us in Amersfoort. It means she’s not in most of Amsterdam, which gives us a train to get on, towards Utrecht.
A somewhat weird shape on the map
November 9, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Next, we want to know if she is closer to the coast than us. This is effectively an East-West split from our location. And.. she is. Which basically reduces us to the Randstadt, the area of the Netherlands that basically includes Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Den […]

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A map that’s been reduce to, basically, the Randstadt. Looks like a pac man with a very open mouth
November 9, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Speaking of questions, we can’t move til 11, but we are allowed to ask questions now, and house rules state that they are counted from where we physically are (to avoid us having to simulate the current train location or whatever). So we are definitely going […]

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An 80km radius from Amersfoort Centraal
November 9, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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…to nowhere in particular. A behind the scenes tip: we all started at Amersfoot Centraal this morning, which is the closest station to our hotel for the night. We agreed to *notionally* start at Lunteren, and @darkphoenix has an actual itinerary that started […]

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Selfie in front of a big Amersfoort centraal sign at the entrance to said station
November 9, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Hello! And welcome to the third and final day of Jet Lag: The Game - Hide + Seek: Netherlands edition! It’s 10:30am, @quixoticgeek and, having discounted the War Games option (the only winning move is not to play), we are so back in the delightful town of […]

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Selfie at Lunteren station
November 9, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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This is the view from our bus stop this morning. We are sat in a bus shelter, gently talking to each other and enjoying the trees and the twittering of birds.

It’s things like this that make a travel game so worth doing…
Landscape: A cycle path, a road, some trees that are turning brown, and a field behind them. A farmhouse in the distance.
November 9, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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My water today is giving me very #jetlagthegame vibes. An auspicious purchase this morning.
Bar-le-Duc sparkling water on a train table, with fong and a bare tree in the background
November 8, 2025 at 9:38 AM