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   Jon Worth (jon@gruene.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 00:56:53 JST Jon Worth

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   DB, I *know* you’re cost cutting. But you surely don’t need to make your ICEs this short? And no this isn’t AI or some Photoshop trick!

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     Jon Worth (jon@gruene.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 00:56:54 JST Jon Worth

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     The sheer scale of this place. Marienborn

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     Jon Worth (jon@gruene.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 00:56:55 JST Jon Worth

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     People of Sachsen, Thüringen - do you want THIS back? Gedenkstätte Marienborn

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     Jon Worth (jon@gruene.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 00:56:57 JST Jon Worth

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     It feels like proper #CrossBorderRail 🙂

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     Jon Worth (jon@gruene.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 00:56:59 JST Jon Worth

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     Or not. Stuck for 10 mins not moving. No staff have thought to make an announcement. Other trains are variously delayed for “Another train has priority”, “Technical failure in another train”, “Delay of previous train” and “Police activity”. So 🤷♂️

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     Jon Worth (jon@gruene.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 00:57:00 JST Jon Worth

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     Now heading back east. First the RB40 to Helmstedt. There’s a tandem on board, but I thought tandems were not allowed? Or does that depend on the line?

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     Jon Worth (jon@gruene.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 00:57:01 JST Jon Worth

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     The five lines we're examining today:

     Görlitz 🇩🇪 - Zgorzelec 🇵🇱
     Horka Gbf 🇩🇪 - Wegliniec 🇵🇱
     Simbach 🇩🇪 - Braunau 🇦🇹
     Kehl 🇩🇪 - Krimmeri-Meinau 🇫🇷
     Gronau 🇩🇪 - Glanerbrug 🇳🇱

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     Jon Worth (jon@gruene.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 00:57:03 JST Jon Worth

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     • Bastian Ehrenholz

     And today I am at TU Braunschweig as @ehrba 's students have been researching #CrossBorderRail lines, and they're presenting what they have found. I am looking forward to hearing a lot more about the technical problems at each border - the sort of knowledge I am usually missing or at least cannot easily obtain

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     Jon Worth (jon@gruene.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 00:57:04 JST Jon Worth

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     Nice but rather impractical bike racks at TU Braunschweig. So yes, I parked at 90° to the plan 🙂

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     Jon Worth (jon@gruene.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 00:57:05 JST Jon Worth

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     Now had to shut up a second one making calls. What part of “Ruhebereich" do you not understand? (this one was speaking German - so can well understand Ruhebereich)

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     Jon Worth (jon@gruene.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 00:57:06 JST Jon Worth

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     Now someone started a zoom call, super loudly. In English. So she got deutsched by me *immediately* and told to shut up.

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     Jon Worth (jon@gruene.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 00:57:07 JST Jon Worth

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     I’m in the quiet zone in the ICE and someone is typing on a phone with the keyboard bip-bip-bip noise on

     Not only is this irritating for others, but does it serve any purpose? Does it really assist any sort of user? The short sighted maybe, somehow?

     Or is it a sort of skeumorphic thing, that keyboards of the past made noise, so still must?

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     Jon Worth (jon@gruene.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 00:57:08 JST Jon Worth

     • Bastian Ehrenholz

     Not #CrossBorderRail today. Or at least not in the normal way 🙂

     I’m off to TU Braunschweig first, working with @ehrba ‘s students

     Then later I’m going to Gedenkstätte Marienborn - the transit point for those travelling to West Berlin from West Germany

     First up: a replacement train ICE 2917 Berlin Südkreuz - Braunschweig Hbf