Good Morning from Gare de l'Est, where #SNCF is taking me some of the way to #39c3 , hopefully (I'm glad my connection in Frankfurt was 35 mins initially...)

Hazy sunrise over the fields of Champagne on the way to #39c3. The train is quite empty so hopefully the border bullshit in Kehl doesn't delay us too much further. For now, including the expected border delay, SNCF still believes that this #TGV9561 will be in Karlsruhe/Mannheim/Frankfurt before the #ICE74 to Hamburg.

@olasd i mean, ICE74 will be delayed by the standard DB delay, so you will be fine, right?

(and every time I write something like this I think it goes against nature: Italian trains are late, German trains are supposed to work almost as well as Swiss train!)

@valhalla which is strongest, Murphy's Law or DB's tardiness? My experience says it can go either way!

In Strasbourg with the expected 20-minute delay. Gotta love SNCF scheduling its trains with zero slack with respect to max speed. Next known unknown is border controls... #ICE74 arrived in Freiburg on time

@olasd I love that they do not care enough to include it in their timetable, even though you lose at best 10-15 minutes every time

@mathieui fucking absurd

@olasd

Yesterday, border control have kept us ~15min in Kehl (TGV 9583 from Marseille to Frankfurt).
We were already late before. And after the check it was a 30m delay.
The train succeeded to finishing on Frankfurt with 18m delay, so there may be margin on the German side

@lpoujol I bought my ticket with DB all the way through so I'm sure I'll get to Hamburg eventually (and delays are one of the reasons I booked such an early train) ;-)

DB just sent me a mail telling me that I will have 2 minutes for my train change in Frankfurt, so I'll just change in Karlsruhe or Mannheim as both trains will follow one another on the same platform there. Hopefully in the right order!

@olasd

Yeah... Same reason I did through DB website.
Hope it will be alright.

Hello Germany.

@mathieui @olasd I do wonder what they are doing border control for on expensive trains, when they don't really bother with doing border controls for cars, even when Switzerland is involved

(and at least between Italy and Switzerland they aren't really doing border controls on the cheap-ish local trains either)

@valhalla @mathieui I would be very surprised if the German police was doing border checks between Italy and Switzerland!

@olasd Hello olasd!

@zhenech bit frosty 'round these parts!

@olasd @mathieui they as in “the police forces around western Europe” :)

I expected the French police to also be doing border controls on the way back? they aren't?

@valhalla @mathieui good question, we'll see. On the way back, the cross-border train is my last leg though! Only thing I'll be late for is new year's eve raclette at home 🧀🧀🧀

Looks like #TGV9561 made it in front of #ICE74 on the Freiburg - Frankfurt corridor... with 3 minutes to spare

@olasd yeah, everyone wanted White Christmas, so they asked for frost, but nobody remembered to ask for rain 🤷‍♀️

@olasd Also allegedly same track in Karlsruhe, which lol, I don't believe it. I'll also try that train but also lol, no reservation so 🤷‍♂️.

Hah. Just changed to :37 and :44 respectively.

@phil I do have a seat booked, so I'm glad I made it!

@olasd @valhalla @mathieui Don't mention the war!

@phil Of course my booking is from Frankfurt so I get to stand for a bit

Hello from #ICE74 🎉. Standing room only, at least in 1st class.

@olasd There's a joke somewhere that at least you can rely on DB trains being delayed.

Lots of nerdy hoodies in this carriage, finally some normal people #39c3

@olasd ahhhh mais je crois que je t'ai croisé sur le quais (je courrais, pull rose, vers l'agent pour demander si notre correspondance à frankfurt sera assurée ... on risque de devoir orendre le prochain train, et donc 3h sans place assise...)
bonne fin de trajet, et à + au 39c3 !

@arudy ah je t'ai vu et je me demandais si c'était toi 😭

@olasd pareil, mais comme j'etais un peu en panique pour trouver l’agent, jme suis pas arret3e, deso!

@olasd Laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarge…

@olasd I love seeing the TGV trickling into Frankfurt at the same time. How is that even possible. :>

@phil lots of forks for the TGV to arrive at the far-end on platform 2, while the ICE gets a somewhat straight through to platform 8

@arudy Beau sprint, vous avez pu monter ?

@olasd I've read "bodies" first and was concerned you didn't listen to @bremner about that war thing

@olasd ouiiiii, on est assis a notre place !!
(mon poticoeur en PLS !)

@arudy 🎉

@valhalla @mathieui key word: "at home" however late, raclette will be had!

@olasd I love how there's always a Chess club on board. Happened last time as well.

@phil LOL. I hadn't caught which game they were playing, thanks for translating

@phil Panic! at the bordbistro.

@olasd Oh dear. And now they're looking for a doctor/medic.

@phil I promise @zhenech that I had nothing to do with that!

@phil wow, first time I see an ambulance *on the platform*

Now that's an eventful #ICE74. First the chess club is looking for adversaries, then the hot drinks machine is out of service, then the conductor calls for a medic on board, the train speeds up, and now we've dropped off a passenger to an ambulance waiting for the train *on the platform* in Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe 😯

Train departed 5 mins late from that stop, expected on time on arrival in Hamburg.

@werdahias LOL, incredible

@olasd The famous rail/road collaboration, finally!

(He says, still baffled by seeing cars board a train in the middle of Bahnhof Hamburg-Altona years ago…)

@CyrilBrulebois I'll say I'm glad the ambulance didn't enter the ICE (does not fit!), and yes, the death of the auto-train is unfortunate

@olasd That station (Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe) is pretty special. It was planned with long ramps so that Taxis could drive to the platforms (wtf). Different time. (But not even that long ago.)

@olasd
When are you supposed to arrive?

@lpoujol je suis là (au BOC, je vais aller vers le meeting Angel générique)

@olasd

Oh chouette \o
Je suis dans la zone de Milliways pour le moment.

Je sèche le meeting angel générique (mais j'ai fait celui sur le contrôle d'accès & évac juste avant) et plus tard j'irais au meeting de démarrage de l'équipe de trad \o