Note by @jeder

Jon Worth @jon@gruene.social

2y

Welcome to #CrossBorderRail 2024 Extra Days - Berlin - Tantow - Gryfino - Godków - Wriezen - Berlin

Today’s borders
Tantow 🇩🇪 - Szczecin-Gumieńce 🇵🇱
Ladenthin 🇩🇪 - Barnislaw 🇵🇱
Hohenwutzen 🇩🇪 - Stary Kostrzynek 🇵🇱
Neu Rüdnitz 🇩🇪 - Siekierki 🇵🇱
Neu Rüdnitz 🇩🇪 - Siekierki 🇵🇱 - Abzweig Schleuse

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Jon Worth @jon@gruene.social

2y

Here’s today’s #CrossBorderRail intro video, filmed in a bit of a rush at Südkreuz https://peertube.netzbegruenung.de/w/6VsfELB87FCdHaa7oGeauq

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Jon Worth @jon@gruene.social

2y

#CrossBorderRail 2024 Extra Days - Berlin - Tantow - Gryfino - Godków - Wriezen - Berlin
Train 1 of 5

RE 3 (3306)
08:25 Berlin Südkreuz - Angermünde 09:30

Operator: DB Regio AG Nordost

Train type: TRAXX Locomotive and 5 Bombardier double deck carriages, control car
⚡️
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (step free if station allows)
🛜: ✅ (can’t tell if it’s working though)
🍽️: ⛔️
🧳: 🙂 (many multi use areas)
🧽: 😐 (bit grimy)

Distance: 78km
Average speed: 72km/h

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Jon Worth @jon@gruene.social

2y

I’m still, after all these years, astounded at how bad Germans are at basic negotiation with strangers

Train is packed

Family with a father with two huge bags comes through from the next carriage. He can’t go back (kids behind) or turn (doors too narrow)

But an impeccably dressed, obviously rich c. 70 year old guy coming the other way just stands there, blocks him. He needed to move c. 30cm, but didn’t think to do so. After the luggage guy gives him a stare he moves a fraction

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Jon Worth @jon@gruene.social

2y

The answer here is simple

The older well dressed dude steps aside

The next time, somewhere, roles will be reversed, and someone would better stand aside for him

If we can all see that ceding to another once in a while means others will cede to us when we need it, we all win

Why do so many Germans never do this?

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Jon Worth @jon@gruene.social

2y

#CrossBorderRail 2024 Extra Days - Berlin - Tantow - Gryfino - Godków - Wriezen - Berlin
Bus 1 of 1

Bus RB66
09:36 Angermünde - Tantow 10:47

Operator: DB Regio AG Nordost

Bus type: MAN’s City bendy bus
⛽️ (hybrid but you can’t charge it I think)
🚲: ❓(officially yes, but no guarantee, today it’d work)
🦽: ✅
🛜: ✅
🍽️: ⛔️
🧳: 😐 (city bus for a regional trip, could be better)
🧽: 🙂

Distance: 55km
Average speed: 57km/h

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Jon Worth @jon@gruene.social

2y

I might be on a dreaded Schienenersatzverkehr (SEV) (rail replacement bus) but I’m happy.

I’m off to the Germany - Poland border, one of the most fascinating borders in Europe and one I know quite well by now (although not the bit of it I’m heading for today)

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Jon Worth @jon@gruene.social

2y

Passow

Grand old station, now derelict

Tracks already renewed here (this bit was already electrified)

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Jon Worth @jon@gruene.social

2y

I’m getting a scenic tour of Uckermark as the road for the replacement bus doesn’t follow the railway! 🙂

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Jon Worth @jon@gruene.social

2y

And at Schönow and Casekow there are no signs of track works at all

I’ve heard the rebuilding plans here were delayed, but 🤯

(Was impossible to photograph from the bus)

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Jon Worth @jon@gruene.social

2y

Let’s build a straight road!

Pond!

Ok, no then

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Jon Worth @jon@gruene.social

2y

There’s no sign whatsoever of any works in Tantow either (last German station)

The EU flag dates from a previous renovation

There is a Schlager night though

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Jon Worth @jon@gruene.social

2y

Honestly this is a mess

Given the works are only around Passow currently, you’re subjecting the people on the rest of the route to a torturous rail replacement bus for years while the railway is intact

Run trains Szczecin - Passow, and bus Passow - Angermünde?

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Jon Worth @jon@gruene.social

2y

I put up the drone to check I’m not missing something. There’s this digger in a field south of the station, but that’s it. Oh and a poster. #CrossBorderRail

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Jon Worth @jon@gruene.social

2y

Something is really weird here. The question is what is wrong. I’ll pedal off towards Poland and see what I find to the north. #CrossBorderRail

#CrossBorderRail 2024 Extra Days - Berlin - Tantow - Gryfino - Godków - Wriezen - Berlin
Bike 1 of 2
Tantow - Gryfino

Distance: 35.4km
Est. duration: 2:30

This bike route, mapped on Komoot:
https://www.komoot.com/de-de/tour/1800541672

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🌺 Cat Pöñíçkøvā @pony@blovice.bahnhof.cz

2y

@jon according to polregio, the works are only on the german side, i suppose they just don't have own trains and/or to cover the route and the german side is not interested in that stub

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Jeder

🔜 eth0 @jeder@miau.jeder.pl

2y

@pony @jon yeah polregio does not really do international routes with their own trains besides the stub to gorlitz

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