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Theory of going to Gryfice: 4 h 36 min. by train (including two communicated transfers, 11 min., each), 2 h on the spot, 5 h 17 min. return journey by train (including two transfers, 20 min. each).
Reality of going to Gryfice: 7 minut by trains, "accident involving a human", 1.5 h return journey on foot.
#rail

Does a #cat walking on a single #rail of a railway track count as a monorail?

200 years of the railway.
Rather shockingly I've lived through more than a third of that!
Breeching, demise of steam, reduction of night trains, HSR, privatisation, and no more British Rail yellow fruit cake.
#Rail200

I will always be fascinated that the manufacturer (or the buyer? I don't know who adds the stickers) of a train costing a few millions can't afford a professional translator.
That's Polish EN63H-002.
The Polish version says not to *block* the door (with baggage).
#Engrish #English #rail

What's the point of installing an electronic timetable on a small train stop? Next to the paper one, of course. The kind that only displays the planned timetable, not the current departures. And of course the arrival platform is announced via loudspeakers after the barriers are closed.
#rail

Well, I've seen a few Greater Anglia trains pass by here since Sunday, and they're all still in their private-sector livery. Slightly disappointed, I was hoping for a bit of the ol' blue 'n' yellow. #railway #rail

#TIL that #Szczecin Dąbie has a third platform.
#rail

Here's the new version of "passenger's portal", the timetable app of Polish railways, with even more battery friendly dark mode.
#DesignIsMyPassion #UI #rail

Time to continue my #rail travel stories. It's a few years since I was at the seaside last, since the travel's too long for me now. Before, I used to visit Świnoujście and Kołobrzeg a few times. The route to Kołobrzeg is quite straight, whereas Świnoujście gets interesting because of Szczecin on the way there.
So over all these years, using regional Poznań – Świnoujście trains, I've made all these variations:
• a direct train that reversed on Szczecin Główny station (i.e. the main station in Szczecin)
• a direct train, except that I got off at Szczecin Dąbie to stretch my legs, and then entered the same train 40 minutes later as it stopped at the same station again
• a direct train that passed through Główny and used a roundabout track to reverse
• a direct train, except that I got off at the first stop at Szczecin Dąbie, and changed trains to "Błękitny" that went faster from Szczecin to Świnoujście
• the "Orkan" train that used the rail bypass to go straight from Szczecin Zdunowo to Szczecin Załom, and skip all the other Szczecins (except I only went as far as Goleniów back then)

One screenshot, two memes.
Variant 1:
Polish people: going crazy about tickets for 1 PLN.
Me, raised in thriftiness characteristic of Poznań area: "I don't know, 1 PLN is still some money."
Variant 2:
Carbrains: "trains are expensive!"
Me: "are they now? This sounds like a pretty good deal to me."
#rail #InterCity

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheBBCIntroducingMixtape
Rail Replacement Bus Service:
🎵 She makes me feel better
#RailReplacementBusService
https://open.spotify.com/track/1IU2wmcs1zdxTVtADwO6hE

Here's something new. Our train is delayed because the #PKP #InterCity train going in front of us is delayed. And apparently that train is delayed because the conductor decided to remove a passenger over him keeping his shoes against the seat opposite him.
And the real absurd part is that apparently said passenger removed the shoes upon being called on it. Yet the conductor decided to call the police to forcibly remove him anyway. On a single track line known to be filled with trains to the capacity. Causing series of delays for hours to come. With a bunch of connections on all major nodes that will cause further delays.
#rail

You're walking down a dirt road, and it suddenly crosses what looks like an overgrown line of greenery between the fields. You check the map. Indeed, a railway line used to cross here.
#rail

🤚 Checking train delays every day to estimate the risk of missing a 5-minute transfer.
👉 Checking train delays every day until the train is finally delayed, to see if the other train waits for it.
#rail

I was in Chojnice, I was in Chojna, I'm just missing Chojnów for the full #rail set.

When you seem to be only person on the train with a non-Internet ticket, and therefore the only one not asked for ID.
#rail

I was supposed to go home via Wrocław.
But then, I thought: perhaps I could change trains in Legnica, Głogów and Leszno? Turns out, I can do that.
And then, I thought: I've got a long ait in Głogów, perhaps I should add a change in Rudna? Well, I can do that as well.
Of course, there's an increased risk that I'll end up being stuck somewhere along the way.
#rail

Imaginary dialog:
"Excuse me, where is the train station?"
"It's these unmarked doors between the barber shop and the driving school."
#Głogów, #Poland.
#rail

Did I spend 90 minutes today adding random trips to my @… account? Perhaps.
Will I get a cool #rail coverage map tomorrow? I surely hope so!
But this one is cool too.

I like when my train leaves Szczecin via Dziewoklicz. The route via Port Centralny is cool too, but nature is my thing.
#rail

This is the #Garbce stop on railway line 271 (Poznań — Wrocław), renovated a few years ago.
The platforms end a dozen metres from the railway crossing. However, there is no walkway from the platforms to the crossing; probably because it would need to cross a tiny stream. Instead, a 100 m long walkways have been added to the other end of the platforms, with a tunnel joining the platforms and access to a side road in the town. To reach the railway crossing, you have to walk 700 m.
Ironically, even in the general drought the tunnel manages to feature puddles of ground water. Also including the photo of a platform roofing with weird orange marks.
#rail

Today thanks to a defect of another train combined with complete incompetence of Polish railway traffic controllers, I've spend almost 3 hours in a train, stopped halfway between Złotniki Grzybowe and #Poznań Strzeszyn train stops (1.5 km from either). I would lose perhaps half of this time if they instead stopped us at the previous stop, and told us what's up, so we could just go catch the urban bus. But that's not my biggest problem.
These 3 lost hours means I'm behind with work. So I'm hurrying to catch up. Except I'm so completely messed up because of all this, I can't really focus on work, so I had to stop. So I'm going to be even more behind.
#rail #ActuallyAutistic

Did it turn out that the railway pass bought in KD ticket office doesn't work with the barcode scanners used in KW? Perhaps.
Did I immediately start scanning and analyzing the barcodes? Of course.
Well, KD tickets have two codes: a QR code with binary mash encoded in base64 (unnecessarily), which unfortunately I don't have time to analyze, and a code128 barcode with the ticket series and number, encoded as:
AA000000000 (0)
On the other hand, KW/PR have only code128 with the series and number, but without the digit in parentheses (perhaps a checksum?), even though it is printed on the pass:
AA000000000
#rail

Fun fact: if you try to find a Zgorzelec – Wrocław Główny connection for Saturday morning on PLK Passenger's Portal, you're going to get one with a change in Zgorzelec. Onto a train marked: "Stop for disembarking only, it is not possible to start travel at this station."
#rail #Poland

Talking to carbrains always be like:
"Train tickets are more expensive than driving a car."
"Because you aren't counting the costs of buying and maintaining a car."
"But everyone has to have a car!"
So from now on, I arbitrarily decree that everyone, obligatorily and without exceptions, has to have an unlimited railway pass. Therefore, traveling by train is free and driving a car is infinitely many times more expensive. Thank you for your attention.
#rail #CarFree

And I thought that KW, the Greater Poland's regional train operator, already got used to #rail passes I'm using for a few years now. However, all the evidence suggests that they were mostly scanning the barcode without looking at the ticket. Now that I bought it at a different ticket office with an incompatible QR code, they've started being surprised that they honor these.

People when they see traffic jams: "one more lane, bro. I swear, one more lane will fix it."
People when they are told about lack of railway capacity: "the best I can do is a passing loop."
#rail #CarFree

And here's the Frezeitpark Bahnhof. #Görlitz, Germany.
#rail

#DearFedi, does anyone happen to know a website or an app that I could use to easily highlight (as in using color) selected parts of the #railway network (ideally by choosing two stations to get everything in between highlighted), so I could mark which parts of the network I've already traversed, and then share it with you? (needs to include Polish railways)
#rail #map #OpenStreetMap #OpenRailwayMap

I was supposed to play a game, but let's finish bahnposting instead.
1. Bahnhof in #Görlitz. #rail #train