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I messed up
Because of the cancellation of my Frankfurt - Berlin ICE later, I actually have to take a different cross border ICE Strasbourg - Karlsruhe than I had planned, and I don’t have a reservation for that one…
It’s one stop. Maybe it works?
This is going to be… interesting in Strasbourg
“Why are you on this trains 20 mins earlier than you booked?”
“Because my connecting train German side is cancelled”
“But the later one would connect!”
“Not it won’t because of Dobrindt’s illegal border controls”
“And this train you are boarding is compulsory reservation!”
“Yes I know. And that rule is sort of because axle loads on high speed lines. We’re not on a high speed line with that restriction, so I can stay, right?”
🤔
The slightly more diplomatic approach of course is to go find the DB train manager (all France-Germany high speed trains have a joint DB-SNCF staff) and explain my predicament to them
That of course if there are no SNCF guarding access to the platform (towards Germany there normally are not)
I’ve got the perfect bag with me for Dobrindt’s illegal border controls
