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Jon Worth
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@jon@gruene.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

For example: Here’s Germany extending the life of its oldest ICEs by 10 years

https://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/inhalt.deutsche-bahn-die-ice-1-flotte-soll-noch-bis-2036-fahren.ea6eb83e-8246-425b-99f7-7009d6d14690.html

stuttgarter-zeitung.de

Deutsche Bahn: Die ältesten ICE sollen noch bis 2036 fahren

Der verlustreiche Staatskonzern muss sparen und verschiebt die weitere Modernisierung seiner betagten Flotte. Der Milliardenauftrag für bis zu 95 neue Hightech-Fernzüge wird vorerst nicht vergeben. Hersteller und Fahrgastvertreter reagieren enttäuscht.
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Jon Worth
Jon Worth
@jon@gruene.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

Today’s #CrossBorderRail I’m doing the opposite way to how I first planned it. Nyon - Divonne - Coppet. The data and mapping will have to wait!

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Jon Worth
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@jon@gruene.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

Damn this exceptionalism in France

“"C'est unique au monde, nous sommes les seuls à pouvoir le faire": comment la SNCF prolonge la vie de ses TGV afin de répondre au besoin croissant de trains”

Errr EVERY railway does this to some extent!

https://www.bfmtv.com/economie/entreprises/industries/c-est-unique-au-monde-nous-sommes-les-seuls-a-pouvoir-le-faire-comment-la-sncf-prolonge-la-vie-de-ses-tgv-afin-de-repondre-au-besoin-croissant-de-trains_AV-202602200066.html

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"C'est unique au monde, nous sommes les seuls à pouvoir le faire": comment la SNCF prolonge la vie de ses TGV afin de répondre au besoin croissant de trains

BFM Business a eu l'occasion de visiter le technicentre du Landy, près de Paris, où des TGV en fin de vie, normalement voués à la casse, sont remis à niveau pour être utilisés encore plusieurs années en toute sécurité. Globalement, la compagnie va prolonger la vie de 104 rames, pour 600 millions...
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Olivier Roux (moose)
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@otolithe@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

@jon @cstross yes, but we do it while smoking Gitanes and drinking wine, it makes all the difference 😅. Also, we French kiss our trains.

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Charlie Stross
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@cstross@wandering.shop  ·  activity timestamp last week

@otolithe @jon I like TGVs (when they're running on time and the ticketing works) but I couldn't eat a whole one!

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Olivier Roux (moose)
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@otolithe@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

@cstross @jon it’s true that they look like giant baguettes… and they’re full of meat 😆

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Charlie Stross
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@cstross@wandering.shop  ·  activity timestamp last week

@jon Meanwhile, in Scotland:

An HST (InterCity 125) in modern ScotRail livery, still in service in the Highlands for non-electrified routes. Manufactured 1975-82, so up to 51 years old …
An HST (InterCity 125) in modern ScotRail livery, still in service in the Highlands for non-electrified routes. Manufactured 1975-82, so up to 51 years old …
An HST (InterCity 125) in modern ScotRail livery, still in service in the Highlands for non-electrified routes. Manufactured 1975-82, so up to 51 years old …
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@acb@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

@cstross @jon I’ll be catching one of those (well, a cousin) in Australia in a couple of months. Given that Australia’s national motto is “she’ll be right, mate”, I doubt anyone I know will live to see the Melbourne-Sydney line electrified, or even brought up to 1970s British Rail average speed.

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Jon Worth
Jon Worth
@jon@gruene.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

For example: Here’s Germany extending the life of its oldest ICEs by 10 years

https://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/inhalt.deutsche-bahn-die-ice-1-flotte-soll-noch-bis-2036-fahren.ea6eb83e-8246-425b-99f7-7009d6d14690.html

stuttgarter-zeitung.de

Deutsche Bahn: Die ältesten ICE sollen noch bis 2036 fahren

Der verlustreiche Staatskonzern muss sparen und verschiebt die weitere Modernisierung seiner betagten Flotte. Der Milliardenauftrag für bis zu 95 neue Hightech-Fernzüge wird vorerst nicht vergeben. Hersteller und Fahrgastvertreter reagieren enttäuscht.
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Jon Worth
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@jon@gruene.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

#CrossBorderRail 2026 Spring Tour Bike 4 of 14
Coppet - Divonne - Crassier - Nyon

Distance: 16.7km
Est. duration: 1:15

This bike route, mapped: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2026-spring-tour_1361108#13/46.199875/6.146772

Not a good start. Broke the Birdy travel cover and had to repair a brake cable…

Birdy
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#CrossBorderRail 2026 Spring Tour

Tours in Spring 2026. Each day of the project is a Layer in the map - these should be displayed by default, or if not click the three layered diamonds icon "Open browser" to the left side of the map. The icons are all for borders, roughly coloured to differentiate the borders. A cross through a track means NO TRAINS CAN RUN. A cross through trains but not track means TRAINS CAN RUN BUT NO PASSENGER TRAINS. And TRAIN AND TRACK (no crosses) means there is a passenger service.
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