On the rails again… #Interrail
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@moof I was on a river ferry last Friday that demanded € 0,95 for foot passengers and only allows card payments from € 1,00 or over. That’s the reason I always carry coins.
@smveerman I had enough, but this has been a very cash-heavy trip. And I generally minimise the number of coins I carry
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@darkphoenix For the love of trains, DB InfraGO, it’s the 2020s! People don’t carry coins any more! If you really can’t change all the coin-operated luggage lockers to something more modern, at least put a machine I can tap with my card to get enough change to hire a locker, without having to ask for change in the local stores…
@darkphoenix In order to get to the H-Bahn, I have to take a natty green VRR S-bahn four stops to the university. Then I need to walk to the other university station, run by the H-Bahn, which is a few metres away.
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@darkphoenix In order to get to the H-Bahn, I have to take a natty green VRR S-bahn four stops to the university. Then I need to walk to the other university station, run by the H-Bahn, which is a few metres away.
@darkphoenix …though what I actually did was overshoot the station and have to get out two stations further and then wait for the opposite S-bahn.
Normal service will be resumed shortly.
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@moof @darkphoenix Got to love a good Danglebahn (from the I visited in October)
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@darkphoenix …though what I actually did was overshoot the station and have to get out two stations further and then wait for the opposite S-bahn.
Normal service will be resumed shortly.
@darkphoenix The Dortmund H-bahn is like a transport system ripped out of one of the Ages of Myst. A pod arrives, you get in, and are automatically whisked away along an unlikely-seeming route made of curves and dips that covers somewhat changing scenery with enticing hints as to the puzzles around you. The pod gently rocks along the curves, and it makes a series of mysterious mechanical noises in order to couple and uncouple itself to the stations.
Added to the overcast, slightly misty, and generally quiet atmosphere… it felt like I was in one of those video games.
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@darkphoenix The Dortmund H-bahn is like a transport system ripped out of one of the Ages of Myst. A pod arrives, you get in, and are automatically whisked away along an unlikely-seeming route made of curves and dips that covers somewhat changing scenery with enticing hints as to the puzzles around you. The pod gently rocks along the curves, and it makes a series of mysterious mechanical noises in order to couple and uncouple itself to the stations.
Added to the overcast, slightly misty, and generally quiet atmosphere… it felt like I was in one of those video games.
@darkphoenix Even the exterior view as it arrives and little mechanical movements make it safe looks like something out of the game…
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@darkphoenix In order to get to the H-Bahn, I have to take a natty green VRR S-bahn four stops to the university. Then I need to walk to the other university station, run by the H-Bahn, which is a few metres away.
@moof @darkphoenix alt text nitpick: thatis a BR422 not BR22
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@darkphoenix Even the exterior view as it arrives and little mechanical movements make it safe looks like something out of the game…
@darkphoenix And a later part of the trip has even more of that surreal feeling…
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@darkphoenix And a later part of the trip has even more of that surreal feeling…
@moof @darkphoenix wuppertal! thanks for triggering one of my favorite child memories
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@darkphoenix The Dortmund H-bahn is like a transport system ripped out of one of the Ages of Myst. A pod arrives, you get in, and are automatically whisked away along an unlikely-seeming route made of curves and dips that covers somewhat changing scenery with enticing hints as to the puzzles around you. The pod gently rocks along the curves, and it makes a series of mysterious mechanical noises in order to couple and uncouple itself to the stations.
Added to the overcast, slightly misty, and generally quiet atmosphere… it felt like I was in one of those video games.
@moof @darkphoenix The system at Düsseldorf airport is closely related and I think the prototype for the H-Bahn is still standing at the Erlangen Siemens campus. As a post-doc back around 2010, I co-supervised a Master student together with the TU Dortmund professor (Prof. Jünemann) who managed to bring the H-Bahn system to Dortmund. Unfortunately, he passed away two years ago.
https://colorfulcities.de/2015/03/12/die-dortmunder-h-bahn-fast-einmalig-auf-der-welt/
http://www.hedayati.eu/h-bahn/index.htm
https://h-bahn.info/streckennetz-skytrain/ -
@darkphoenix The Dortmund H-bahn is like a transport system ripped out of one of the Ages of Myst. A pod arrives, you get in, and are automatically whisked away along an unlikely-seeming route made of curves and dips that covers somewhat changing scenery with enticing hints as to the puzzles around you. The pod gently rocks along the curves, and it makes a series of mysterious mechanical noises in order to couple and uncouple itself to the stations.
Added to the overcast, slightly misty, and generally quiet atmosphere… it felt like I was in one of those video games.
@moof @darkphoenix This is a schwebebahn, isn't it? Like an updated version of the one at Wuppertal?
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@raganwald no but the back window is always crowded with people looking out.
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