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View of the side of a Stadler LINT in DB Regio livery billed as RS71 to Wießenhorn

@darkphoenix On the upside, I did get to see a rather pretty Stadler LINT (BR 622). I am impressed with how large those windows are, and definitely need to sit alongside one at some point…

Ulm was a bit boring, even by German minkr huge Hbf standards. There’s just nothing there but platforms, and not even a decent station building. Or if there is, it’s behind the construction hoardings.

I’m finally on an :ice_4: ICE 4. It turns out that there’s not much in the way of flexibility […]

On the rails again…

It’s Twindexx o’clock now for the next hour or so to Ulm. This will be the first time I stop in Ulm, so I’ll have a quick look around the station. From there, I’m still deciding the least optimal way to get to Frankfurt, which is where I’ll be winding up the night for reasons…

A white and green ferry docked at a pier under a blue sky.

A blue and white train with a damaged front bumper is parked at a station platform next to a gray building.

The trip across the Bodensee was very pleasant, and incredibly punctual. I had a cup of tea inside the well-heated cabin, and watched the lake go by.

Once I got to Friedrichshafen I had the choice of walking for 12 minutes directly to Friedrichshafen Stadt […]

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Three seats round a table in the Der Katamaran BSB boat. Through the window can be seen one of the buildings that denotes the end of a the Konstanz quay.

On the waves again…

Today I was a bit unsure of what I would do, other than some sightseeing in Konstanz

Last night, I had worked out a route to Basel via St. Galen and Luzern, but then I checked, and Max Langenhan of Team DE had won Gold in the Men’s Luge […]

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A chocolate-covered filled donut with colorful candy pieces on a white plate.

[Food]

Ich bin ein Berliner

Hi #Bahnbubble. I have a Probe BahnCard Gold 25.

Today (Sunday 8th) Max Langenhan of Team DE won Gold in the Men’s Luge event.

Does this mean I can travel for free on ICE tomorrow? Do I need a ticket? If so, how do I book it? If not, is there some way to get confirmation?

The only official […]

If you had a universal basic income that was enough to cover your basic living costs (food, rent, bills etc...).

What would you do with your time ?

A few hours ago I posted asking what people would do if they had a UBI. The thread has been full of hope and joy. People predominantly want to be more creative, help their community, care for others, care for nature.

All except one person who thinks UBI only exists to impose digital ID and […]

@darkphoenix @seabass Sadly, due in part to bad planning on my behalf, and the fact that we arrived with a delay that made what little time we had even less usable, we are having to skip seeing the Triberg falls.

We have a webcam view, though: https://www.triberg.de/webcamPic/webcam.jpg

I will […]

Map of the railway round Triberg

@darkphoenix The Swarzwaldbahn is the height of mid 19th century rail construction - cutting swathes through difficult terrain because it is what is needed. They started planning it in the 1840s, and first entered into operation in 1866.

It has a […]

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@darkphoenix On changing at Offenburg our driver made a point of wishing us a lovely Sunday and a friendly “Sank yu für Träwelling with Deutsche Bahn”

@darkphoenix@not.an.evilcyberhacker.net sat at a table on a Siemens Mireo

On the rails again…

We’re on a quest that’s bound to fall down,

Today @darkphoenix and I are leaving the foggy heights of Freiburg am Breisgau and on a bit of a regional train adventure. We’re going to explore the Schwarzwaldbahn, and see two huge […]

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Panorama of the Titisee, a lake that is currently frozen, with a pier on it that is marked as “Titisee-Runddahrt”. Hills can be seen in the distance. The near shore is sandy

A random tractor cordoned off on a snowy square in front of a shop marked “Leder Welt am Titisee” - Titisee Leather World

@darkphoenix Some Titisee pics…

Clearly DB is engaging in anti-Swiss propaganda, they keep peppering their timetables and documentation with references to the fact that Basel is a bad boyfriend…

@darkphoenix And here we are, Titisee.

Part of the Höllentalbahn.

The station café calls itself Kuckucksstube, and adds that it is Regional, Autentisch, and Lecker.

At this point, I don’t need to make an effort

@darkphoenix We are currently at Hinterzarten. I am reliably informed that an accurate translation of this is “tender backside”.

I will leave the rest of this toot as an exercise for your vivid imaginations.

@darkphoenix The next stop on this train line is Himmelreich. That’s German for “Kingdom of Heaven”.

It seems we can either get off at the Kingdom of Heaven, or we can get off at Titisee. These are mutually exclusive. Which would you pick?

@darkphoenix@not.an.evilcyberhacker.net sat at a four-seat section of a BaWü S-bahn that is probably a FLIRT

On the rails again…

Today is a quick trip on an S-bahn, not normally worth a whole thread, but, well, it’s about where we’re going.

Fedi, let’s be honest, we’re all adults here, and thus we can acknowledge that our guilty secret is finding unexpected lewd […]

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OH: “This is water that was sparkling, like, a country and a half ago”

#TravellingLife #Interrail

The main ballroom with its amazing baroque decorations and tiled floor

The fresco in the roof of the main ballroom

The mirrored room. Some genuinely amazing artwork is painted onto the glass

Detail of the centre of the floor Green Lacquered room, showing some of the amazing marquetry that stunned me

@darkphoenix There’s a lot more to see in the residence. Have a few photos as tasters…

But definitely come and see it

#schloesserbayern

View from the entrance below of the monumental staircase

Fresco above the monumental staircase

Sight line from one of the staircases showing the landing, and through an highly ornamented open door you can see the chandelier lighting up the main entrance hall of the residence.

@darkphoenix The #Würzburg Residence was built between 1720 and 1744, because the then Prince-Bishop of Würzburg was compensated an insane amount of money for the time in a court case, and decided he needed a place to live a little more in keeping with his […]

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A wide angle photo of the front of the Würzburg residence, showing the massive scale of the building

@darkphoenix Buck house, eat your heart out

#Würzburg #schloesserbayern

Würzburg is a bit of a strange town for us. We first stayed overnight after our first season of #JetLagTheGame. We stayed literally opposite the station, and it was a bit pricey and a bit meh.

The second time we stayed overnight during the #ICEAgeChallenge. We discovered that there were actual […]

@darkphoenix And after a mild bahning of a mere +40, we're on our way in a comfy :ice_4: ICE 4 down to Freiburg.

This is much more acceptable in terms of fullness. Time to relax and catch up on posts.

Self-OH: how is it Friday already? But I’ve only taken 3 ICEs so far this week!

No wonder people keep ragging on hosting Matrix.

We’ve just gone past the seemingly endless lights of the Maschen Marshalling Yard, the largest marshalling yard in Europe. And second largest in the world.

The lights just keep going and going in autistically pleasing rows that parallax past the window […]

ICE time! And today we are travelling on the “Female ICE 2.0”, an :ice_4: ICE 4 that on 8th March 2025, women’s day, it was staffed exclusively by women, and the entire operations and signalling staff was also female.

This was an initiative that Deutsche Bahn also did back on the 11th May 2022 […]

Three tracks go under a modern-looking archway supporting an old-style station roof. The two side tracks are the ones for platforms 3 and 4, and the middle one appears to be a more modern through track

A more classic view of Lübeck station platforms 6 and 7 showing the glass-topped roof. 526 007, a nah.sh-liveried Stadler FLIRT is on platform 6. On platform 7 is a nah.sh-liveried Stadler FLIRT, with Graffiti on one of the carriages.

Go to Lübeck, they said. Take pictures of the pretty buildings, they said…