Notices by artemist (artemist@social.mildlyfunctional.gay), page 4

I don't think this is included in my pass

TRAM TRAIN

oh no i didn't read and got light apfelschorle
still good though

Let's claim it's to see this gravestone

(okay I just found the closest thing on Atlas obscura)

Hello from Birmingham, where I will hopefully find an answer to the question "why the fuck are you in Birmingham?"

Do they physically switch pantographs when moving from 750v to 15kV? It sounded like one was moved up with a motor and the other fell.
I was surprised how smooth that was, the switch was done at speed with no light interruption

Being on Avanti first feels so weird, there's only like 3 passengers in this car and they came out and asked me what I wanted from the menu

... oops, somehow I missed that eurail is valid on AVG, that's a waste of 12€.
I expected that the S4 tram would be treated like normal trams in, say, Berlin, which are not covered

Just did the annoying eurail thing of "leave station with contactless, immediately ask station attendant to let me in again"
(Eurail passes are only valid for some TfL services, but they're all behind the same gateline so I had to split my journey into one where my pass isn't valid and one where it is)

TfL hates this ONE TRICK to get free transit

(my bank keeps declining transactions for TfL, but like most transit contactless systems, it takes a few hours for the back office to try to authorize the card, so you have a few hours before TfL blocks your card.

For some reason one of my banks is declining all TfL transactions, across multiple cards and accounts)

I was taking some photos of the regio I'm taking back and I'm pretty sure the driver jokingly asked me if I wanted to drive the train
(Not entirely sure because it was spoken quickly, not super clearly, and I'm bad at German)

... apparently that only saved me 50p? I thought TfL fares were worse

oh COME ON

I've noticed more people wearing an abaya in London than I normally see in NYC, it's interesting. That's probably the biggest difference I've noticed in clothing, fashion seems pretty similar between here and NYC otherwise.

I'm near the front of this ICE and the driver waved to the driver of another train as we passed, both at probably 250km/h
cute

People I wanted to meet are either somewhere else or eepy, so hi from Olympiapark

Southern first class doesn't even have extra legroom, rip off

TRAM DETECTED

Three more cards from 2 more issuers just declined TfL, I should just steal an oyster card from mae

apropos the bad puns, some friends' posts, and accidentally going past olympiastadion, i think we should ban germans from germany until we can figure out why they're Like That