@smveerman @HaTetsu Amazing pic! Thank you!

@HaTetsu @smveerman Ah here: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tramlijn_Aken_-_Vaals#/media/Bestand:Tramlijn_Aken_-_Vaals_op_de_kaart.png I have been along that road

@HaTetsu @smveerman And I have actually been to the station where that line ended in Vaals! So you have just given me one more for my have visited list. But where did the Aachen-Vaals tram cross the border exactly?

Who else is going to find me something I have missed, after @HaTetsu gave me 3 more earlier, but I too found one more for them as well

Countries / borders included: ALL EU, UK, NO, CH, LI, all the Balkans, EU external borders UA, MD, TR, and UA-MD

Not included: anything to Russia, Belarus, and anything Georgia/Armenia/Azerbaijan, or Turkey or Ukraine non-EU borders

Active passenger line - not yet visited (1)
Active line, no passenger service - not yet visited (4)
Dismantled or disused line - not yet visited (61)
Narrow Gauge or Other Special Lines - not visited (24)
Tramways - not visited (19)
Other - not visited (9)

NOT VISITED 118

TRANSIT MARKERS 87

Active passenger line - visited by (136)
Active passenger line - visited by (42)
Active passenger line - visited by (4)
Active line, no passenger service - visited by (3)
Active line, no passenger service - visited by (45)
Active line, no passenger service - visited by (12)
Dismantled or disused line - visited by (95)
Dismantled or disused line - visited by (4)
Narrow Gauge or Other Special Lines (12)
Tramways (26)
Other (19)

Visited - 398

OK, today's re-working of the map has meant I have broken the 600 barrier

603 rail borders mapped
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-all-the-borders_935041#6/50.548344/9.788818

However due to re-categorisation of some as transits, the total number I have been to has dropped - to 398

@evawolfangel if you’re sure they’re not going to prematurely cancel the delayed one

And you’re sure it wasn’t a train fault that caused the delay

@Maristya in Deutschland noch nicht. Aber den Tschechischen Mapy beginnt andere Länder hinzufügen. Deutschland wird bestimmt kommen.

@pglux.bsky.social Not only. Financially Interrail made sense too!

@timstrutzi Or - to put it practically - Siemens engineers would never allow their trains to have doors as bad as a Alstom (now CAF) Régiolis, or a ride as bumpy as a Bombardier AGC or those terrible EMUs CAF build for Media Distancia in Spain. Out of engineering pride if nothing else!

@timstrutzi Sure, I totally get that. And Stadler, in my conversations with them, basically said that too me - interiors is where the customer thinks they can cut.

But some aspects - like does the train have doors that close tightly and do not rattle, has sensibly designed toilets, has good suspension - are things a manufacturer can do well (or not), regardless of customer. And that's what matters here - Siemens does that stuff generally well in my experience (as a passenger).

@ajinkyapdahale You need to use this search: https://int.bahn.de/en/buchung/start?KL=2&ET=PASSZUSCHLAG

@partim @smveerman You are complaining at a high level @wrzlbrnft too

I can live with "smooth ride" and "doors that don't clank and rattle incessantly". Maybe living in France has lowered my standards?

@julienw Yes, so I go sit in the restaurant. ‍️

@SarahAS2 Right. Exactly.

@smveerman for a S-Bahn. I don’t think even Siemens would suggest sitting in that for 3 hours!

Also on the Siemens builds good trains point

Desiro ML for SNCB is horrid - because SNCB ordered a terrible interior. Desiro ML for ÖBB is fine

Similarly a DB ICE 407 has a nicer interior but same engineering as a Eurostar e320

@smveerman ah. The interior is crap. But that’s SNCB’s fault not Siemens’s fault. Desiro ML in Austria is fine.

@ajinkyapdahale €19 for Berlin-Strasbourg and €10 for Strasbourg-Dijon. But the cheapest regular ticket I could find for today was c. €150, so Interrail made sense

Passzuschlag is a special search on DB’s website