Matias

Merry Christmas 🎄

Way too long, why not split it into two episodes?

There have been rakes of Talgo coaches for two years in Denmark, so that's not entirely true 😉

Chepe train in Mexico, one of the most scenic railways in the Americas. Here it is departing Creel on its way to the Pacific coast in Los Mochis

That is most definitely NOT Talgo’s fail. It is rather that the Danish infrastructure company has not managed to standardise the platform height despite having a standard height for several decades now. Don’t blame Talgo for the Danish lack of foresight.

While Saturday was the world premiere of Talgo 230, today was the official inauguration of DSB service with Talgo 230. I was lucky enough to join the first departure from Copenhagen towards Hamburg with speeches, flags, and official celebrations! @talgo.com

Unfortunately there was no official celebration at all, this will happen on Monday instead. This was a secret soft launch.

Today was the first revenue service of a Talgo 230 set. DSB and @talgo.com have made a comfortable and quiet train, which will be a pleasure to travel with. My only complaint is the missing dining car!

That stub used to continue to the railway ferry

My guesses are based on the running time of today’s EC between Hamburg and Copenhagen, 2.5 hours Padborg - Copenhagen.
From Copenhagen to Malmö it’s around 40 minutes.
I assume the train will not stop at Copenhagen Central, but Copenhagen South to avoid running around and thus saving time.

It seems like an arrival time to Copenhagen at around 7:45, and Malmö at around 8:30

Credit: Lucas Mikkelsen

Credit: Konstantin Planinsky

Credit: Birte Albrecht

Denmark issues the vehicle authorisation for EuroCity international trains.

Talgo 230 trains will serve national rail routes within Denmark and the revamped cross-border connection between Copenhagen and Hamburg.

All the info: www.talgo.com/en/denmark-i...

BRASOV TO BUCHAREST on the 10:43 Astra Trans Carpatic, a private open-access operator competing with CFR (Romanian Railways). This IC2 diesel train was originally built for Danish Railways, suffered unreliability issues, but seems to have found a good home in Romania!

The IC2 works well in Romania because the Danish State Railways gave up ok them to focus on the larger IC4. The IC2 are definitely more reliable now than before (partly due to the more creative maintenance solutions in Romania)

The DSB Talgo introduction date is correct if you are to trust the booking inventory. But they haven't been approved yet, nor has there been an official announcement either

Probably also because of the greatly reduced capacity compared to older wagons and thus higher prices making these new trains less attractive. Especially considering the possibility of competition in the near future.

There will be two trains per day, the second one probably only in summer season

Viewers of @jetlagthegame.bsky.social may recognize the location and the Lego set

Beautiful station architecture - they don't make them the same any more ...

That's impressive that they are dedicating *more* space for the bistro and not less. You would think they would want to cram as many seats as possible in the trains

There's a railway ferry in China??

Greit! Bliver det med bistro?

This is how rail travel should be. Comfortable and tasty! But what do we get? Most countries that still have bistros serve microwaved food. In Sweden you even get to microwave it yourself!

The recently electrified line to Holbæk now sees a lot of Vectrons

Is there any reason why "Zug nr 1234" is always appended to the train number now? That wasn't the case before

@simplyrailway.bsky.social idea for your next railway adventure?

Working on Christmas Eve requires mood lights (photo from the 24th in the evening)

Denmark is one of the very few countries with a dedicated royal train

#RoyalTrain #RailwayPhotography #Vectron #UdogsemedDSB #Jernbane

Thanks! Another feature request; would it be possible to make it so dates are accepted without dashes? E.g. 20241212 instead of 2024-12-12?

Also, the settings page returns a 404 error :)

Adding recent train trips to a logbook has never been more fun! But ... @viaduct.world would it be possible to add train ferries? At least the few ones in operation some time during this century?