Het Groot Belgisch Treinen Forum

Sorry for posting in English.
"Route knowledge" is very much a requirement in the UK with a lot of paperwork to record it.
The government does not require train companies to maintain "route knowledge" and many train companies have stopped allowing drivers time to retain it.

Tijd om eens het stof af te blazen van dit topic, dat stof irriteert mij trouwens minder dan voor hetzelfde onderwerp 5 nieuwe topics aan te maken :-) In het VK heb ik altijd gereisd met National Express (busbedrijf). Nu zou ik graag in juli vanuit Londen Paddington naar Swindon reizen met Great We...

Sorry for posting in English. http://www.belgianrail.be shows P 8700 (Binche to Louvain-La-Neuve) on 24/03/2019 as taking a very strange route. After the stop at Etterbeek, the train is diverted via line 26/2, Delta, Merode, line 36/3, line 36, Leuven and joining the normal route at Ottignies. Is th...

Sorry for posting in English. The gates are getting more and more common. They are awkward if you are using some kind of a pass which won't open the gates and you can't find a person to let you through. If this applies to you, you need to go to an information counter and ask for something called a "...

De Britten zijn in deze inderdaad een goed voorbeeld. Je houdt één nacht vrij waarin je alle werken concentreert zodat je op de andere nachten (bijna) niets meer moet doen. Alleen: omdat alles tegelijk gebeurt heb je meer personeel nodig, die je meer moet betalen omdat het weekend is en vooral meer...

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If anyone is planning a Global Interrail in the next months, interrail.eu are offering 1st class for the price of 2nd on Global interrails bought during February and used before 15 May.

Absoluut. Op deze diensten rijden MS96-stellen en die hebben een heel goede eerste klas, met bovengemiddeld veel zitplaatsen (1/3e van de trein). I know the MS96 has first class but that does not mean there is a first class fare in France. www.ter.sncf.com only offers second class fares for Lille <...

Sorry for posting in English. Is there first class between Moeskroen and Lille? If not, can you sit in first class after Moeskron with a second class NMBS ticket to Lille? I think the NMBS IC services run as TER services in France, most TER services do not have first class even if the train has firs...

Sorry for posting in English. I believe ordering from interrail.eu also needs someone to sign for the interrail when it's delivered. I had one delivered to the office once when there was a web-only promotion going on but I prefer not to do that. If you order it from DB, do you have to sign for it? I...

Een sluis is nog iets anders op gebied van constructie. Een sluis staat er nabij Roosendaal. Er is een zone van een x aantal meter waar geen bovenleiding is. In alle andere gevallen is er altijd bovenleiding aanwezig op te delen in 3 stukken, men spreekt van een zone met spanningsomschakeling. Een ...

The lights were on battery only for some distance north of the station. The UK term for this would be "neutral section" - I don't know how that translates to Dutch. Spannings- of stroomloos? I would expect there was a distance of 2-3 train lengths with no voltage in the overhead wire. That should s...

The 11 minute connection at Aulnoye-Aymeries was held for me and one other passenger. 19229 (472) leaving 30 late by the time it had shunted out of a siding into the same platform as the IC used. The SNCF guard had called and asked it be held but I had expected it would be held anyway. Thanks for y...

Sorry for posting in English. Yesterday I did Paris to Brussels via Aulnoye and Mons/Bergen for curiosity. Due to some kind of incident at either Creil or St. Denis or both, IC2329 (22321+Corails) was late leaving Paris and diverted via the freight line from Ormoy-Villers - near Longueil. It was ini...

Sorry for posting in English. I was back in the UK a few weeks ago and read an article in a railway magazine that Network Rail (the equivalent of Infrabel) would be paying for ERTMS (including ETCS?) to be fitted to a small number of steam locomotives and a historic diesel locomotive. It was suggest...

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I see that Thalys and Eurostar to/from Brussels are delayed by 2-3 hours due to what www.thalys.net calls an "Individual involved in an accident on the SNCF network".
Are they not able to use the classic route via Tournai like E* did before the high speed line opened?