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   Nemo_bis 🌈 (nemobis@mamot.fr)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 19:36:48 JST Nemo_bis 🌈

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   • Tor Lillqvist

   @tml Thanks! This is the kind of doubt I have about doing Stockholm-Milan by interrail... so far I've preferred normal tickets, although interrail is potentially cheaper and more flexible (in terms of backup daytime routes in case of delays in the night trains).

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     Tor Lillqvist (tml@urbanists.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 19:36:50 JST Tor Lillqvist

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     I guess the correct way would be to enter the trains that run with a delay manually. Tedious but possible. That just means you won't get those trip legs drawn onto the nice map in the app.

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     Tor Lillqvist (tml@urbanists.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 19:36:51 JST Tor Lillqvist

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     One trick would have been to, once I had arrived in Berlin, remove the previous leg from the travel day and instead add the next one. Does the app check that you aren't mysteriously teleporting from one city to another several hundreds of kilometres away? "Yeah, I used a helicopter between Hamburg and Berlin".

     Sure, for this specific case there probably aren't any suitable overnight trains that could be involved, but still.

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     Tor Lillqvist (tml@urbanists.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 19:36:52 JST Tor Lillqvist

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     But because of the earlier arrival in Berlin I would in fact have been able to take another overnight train with departure time before midnight. That would then still have been the same travel day. But I would not have been able to enter it into the app. Because the app doesn't accept overlapping journeys.

     Interesting. I wonder if there are any rules for a situation like this.

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     Tor Lillqvist (tml@urbanists.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 19:36:53 JST Tor Lillqvist

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     Of course, the #Interrail app knows nothing about trains being delayed, so in it I had to enter that I used the trains in my planned itinerary. Which in this case was not a problem; Berlin was my final destination, and DB staff just checks that the ticket is valid on the day in question anyway.

     But what if I had planned to change in Berlin to some overnight train that left after midnight, accepting that I will then use one more travel day.

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     Tor Lillqvist (tml@urbanists.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 19:36:54 JST Tor Lillqvist

     My journey Stockholm–Copenhagen–Hamburg–Berlin yesterday made me think of an interesting problem concerning #Interrail .

     (To recap: My train to Hamburg was scheduled to arrive at 20:03, and it did, with less than 10 minutes delay. My train to Berlin was scheduled to depart at 20:48. Now, there was another train to Berlin that was scheduled to depart at 19:53 but it was about 30 min delayed. So I took it instead, to arrive earlier in Berlin.)

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