Welcome to today's thread - #CrossBorderRail Timetable change days - Zürich - Chiasso - Mendrisio - Cantello Gaggiolo - Pino-Tronzano - Locarno - Domodossola – Zürich
Borders:
Chiasso VG 🇨🇭 - Como S. Giovanni 🇮🇹
Stabio 🇨🇭 - S Margherita Confine 🇮🇹
Stabio 🇨🇭 - Arcisate 🇮🇹
Ranzo-S. Abbondio 🇨🇭 - Pino-Tronzano 🇮🇹
Camedo 🇨🇭 - Ribellasca 🇮🇹
Brig 🇨🇭 - Iselle di Trasquera 🇮🇹 (crossed before)
These borders on the borders map:
umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/c…
Today's routes on the routes map:
umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/c…
#CrossBorderRail All The Borders
All of Europe's rail borders - categorised by type, and whether I (Jon Worth) have been to the location.uMap
Jon Worth
in reply to Jon Worth • • •Can you cross 6 rail borders in a day? Each of them different lines? Let’s try it 🙂 #CrossBorderRail
The highlight of the day is going to be number 5: FART💨
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domodoss…
railway line in Switzerland and Italy
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Jon Worth
in reply to Jon Worth • • •#CrossBorderRail Timetable change days Train 17 of 32
EC 31
06:33 Zürich HB - Chiasso 08:55
SBB CFF FFS
Train type: Stadler RABe 501 Giruno EMU, 11 short carriages
⚡️ (15kV ac)
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (step free for 55 or 76cm platforms - best anywhere)
🛜: ✅
🍽️: ✅
🧳: 🙂 (hard to say - vestibules are tiny. Problem if it’s full? Today empty)
🧽: 🙂
But it gets a top score!
Jon Worth
in reply to Jon Worth • • •EC 31
06:33 Zürich HB - Chiasso 08:55
Distance: 205km
Average speed: 87km/h
5 stops:
Zug
Arth-Goldau
Bellinzona
Lugano
Chiasso
This train, mapped: umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/c…
#CrossBorderRail Extra Days 2024
uMapJon Worth
in reply to Jon Worth • • •Aggghh
I’m one of just three passengers in the “Business” silent zone carriage on this SBB train. 1st class. And one of the other two is playing music out of his phone
Jon Worth
in reply to Jon Worth • • •Jon Worth
in reply to Jon Worth • • •This SBB Giruno, built by Stadler… well I have mixed views
It’s a low floor high speed train, but all except 2 doors have steps still at Swiss platforms. The ramps inside over the wheels result in many odd spots and corners. Door vestibules are very cramped
It’s like the ICNG I took in Netherlands on Sunday - turning a regional train design into an InterCity results in some strange design aspects
Jon Worth
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