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[bikerboyhu]

The bike is fixed, the boys are well fed. Time to go to sleep.

The journey so far:

The beginning Budapest Vienna Nightjet Venice Pisa Rome Monterosso al mare Passo dello Stelvio

[merpmonde]

Best train shots of the Bodensee Rundfahrt

Long post coming up! I'm just going to describe the photos with a few remarks, before some notes on how the Bodensee S-Bahn operates. Until I get a masterpost up, if you've missed the Bodensee round trip, here's the final post and there are links to work backwards from there.

Allensbach, Germany. SBB Seehas RABe 521 FLIRT on a S6 local service between Engen and Konstanz.

Radolfzell, Germany. DB Regio BR 650 RegioShuttle Diesel railcar about to depart at sunset on a S61 local service to Stockach.

Überlingen, Germany. DB Regio BR 245 Traxx DE Diesel loco with Dosto carriages in tow on a rapid RE3 service to Friedrichshafen. Radolfzell to Friedrichshafen is the only non-electrified section on the lines around the Bodensee, and this (gorgeous) tunnel in particular might be the sticking point to get the whole circuit electrified.

Nonnenhorn, Germany. DB Regio BR 425 on a RB93 local service between Lindau and Friedrichshafen about to leave Bavaria.

Bregenz Hafen, Austria. ÖBB Rh 4748 Desiro ML, likely on a S1 service to Lindau, about to pass the Nostalgiebad Mili.

Bregenz, Austria. Not a Bodensee train, but a chance at this station to hear the "do-re-mi" of an ÖBB Rh 1116 Taurus on start-up, pushing a Railjet service to Vienna, IIRC.

Rorschach, Switzerland. Appenzeller Bahnen BDeh 3/6 heads for Rorschach Hafen, the terminus of its S25 service. This one-of-a-kind unit runs on normal tracks and on the rack railway up to Heiden.

Ermatingen, Switzerland. SBB Thurbo RABe 526 GTW on a S1 local service from Feuerthalen to Wil, via Romanshorn.

Bodensee S-Bahn map. All the routes used on the trip, including Seelinie and Höribus buses, appear on this map. The network is across three countries and operations are split between DB Regio (Radolfzell-Lindau and the RE2 between Radolfzell and Konstanz), ÖBB (Lindau to St Margrethen) and SBB (St Margrethen-Konstanz-Stein am Rhein, plus the S6 between Radolfzell and Konstanz). Going around the large lake, the Obersee, requires seven different trains! But this can drop to five if you get a direct S7 service between Lindau and Romanshorn, which does exist, but operates most frequently on weekends (ad for the extended S7 on a Thurbo GTW below).

1, 2 or 3 countries in one train. With the S7 direct from Romanshorn to Lindau-Insel. No changes, under 60 minutes.

No train currently goes all the way around, but if I can have a brief moment of fiction, what would that look like? Well, all the tracks are standard gauge, electrified lines are on the same voltage, so there's just differences in signalling, which can be overcome as a EuroCity from Zürich to Munich uses the Bodensee route via Bregenz... and that pesky non-electrified zone between Radolfzell and Friedrichshafen. So a train capable of going around the lake would have to be a Diesel, a bi-mode or a battery-electric unit - on catalogue or already in the area, a German BR 563 Mireo Plus B or a Swiss-built FLIRT Akku would do the trick.

[tratinczica]

apparently, a new train to Wien i didnt know existed, seen this morning in Zagreb

two (older?) nightjet coaches (theyre pretty, they have stars painted on them) and three of the other ones, hž 1411 309 locomotive.

i think its one of those trains where they change the locomotive at each border crossing bc of different electrification or sth.

i know slovenians have multiple voltage locomotives, idk why they dont just use those

[realneverever]

A tumblr tudja, hogy vonaton vagyok...

... és Magyarországon 😬

[modern-train-enthusiast]

International trains

ÖBB Railjet and CD Eurocity on my modeltrain layout

[dutch-trainworld]

Austria State railways - Inlandswagen, also known as Lange Schlieren. Mainly used on the inland express trains until mid 1990s. Here the Type: BRmpz, later transformed into 2nd Class driver-cabs.

[widgenstain]

So the train to Budapest was delayed, not by much, it was like 30 minutes, I didnt even really notice, and suddenly I get the notification on my international payment app that I was reimbursed like 60% of the ticket price. 20 minutes after we arrived. In Austria you can ask for money if you're THREE HOURS late and you actively have to apply for the reimbursement!! I can safely say now that I <3 the Hungarian rail service!

[guerrerense]

Die Pinzgaubahn por Christoph Vitzthum Por Flickr: 2095.01 mit Sdz 901 (Krimml nach Zell am See)