The Man in #Seat61 seems like a relic from a forgotten age of the #Internet.

Seat61.com is a genuinely useful website created by just one guy, a train travel enthusiast who has curated a vast array of information that will help anyone who would like to travel in #Europe by #train

He is not trying to sell you anything and there are no adverts (apart from a few affiliate ids).

His website has won various "best travel website" awards. Notably the last one was in 2012.

seat61.com/

The Man in Seat 61 - for train travel

How to travel by train in Europe & worldwide: Schedules, fares & how to buy tickets.

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Two new themes have dropped:

For all the #train enthusiasts out there: mapcomplete.org/historic_rolli… shows a map of historical locomotives and other rolling stock that are permanently placed somewhere - e.g. monuments, in a museum or just abandoned.

mapcomplete.org/historic_aircr… is a similar map showing #aircraft , interlinking with #wikidata for the models.

Beware: they are dangerous: they are quite addictive to get everything right...

Historic aircraft

A map showing all historic, permanently installed aircraft

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I’ve said before that Dutch trains are beautiful, but how about Dutch trains in a large field of blooming hyacinths?

#trains #train #flowers #Nederland #Holland #Bollenvelden #VIRM #NS #NederlandseSpoorwegen #photo

Walking around Kyoto and seeing beauty around every corner. The train passing by becomes an art work and an attraction.

#kyoto #japan #train #traincrossing #crossing #light #dusk #highlights #bambooforest #travelling #sightseeing #language #japanese #nippon #denshya #でんしゃ #arashiyama #嵐山

Remember the Polish train hackers? The guys who identified why trains being serviced by an independent, licensed train servicing center, "randomly" started failing? And identified the root cause, namely geofencing and/or time-related triggers?

The face charges by the original train manufacturer, who claims the violated copyright and other laws. A fascinating story of contradictory arguments. Enjoy!
#Newag #PolishTrainHackers #Poland #Train #ReverseEngineering
rys.io/en/175.html

I do love the irony of this post....

(Focus WTV post about how in #Brugge the first #NMBS train is running with a wheelchair accessible entrance that can be used without needing assistance.

tbf, I'm sure the wheelchair user just had to go a bit faster and this wouldn't have happened. But hey, nice to see we're finally making some progress on this stuff!)

focus-wtv.be/nieuws/nmbs-stelt…
#wheelchair #train

🚄 Petition to connect all major European cities by a #high-speed #train network ✍️

Please share this widely!

Fun fact, #Portugal is currently in third place in number of signers

europa.eu/citizens-initiative/…