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Sorry for English. This report from Poland says that HLE21 are the only response to a request from PKP IC to hire 10 electric locomotives for a year due to delays overhauling EP09s including a supplier going bankrupt. https://www.rynek-kolejowy.pl/wiadomosci/belgijskie-lokomotywy-pociagna-pkp-interc...

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bahn.expert (formerly marudor.de) gives the same information as the DB app. "Zugsuche" in the menu will let you ask about a specific train by number.

You may also find zugfinder.net interesting - look at https://www.zugfinder.net/en/train-ICE_11 for example.

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IC1529 today had 2xM7BMX replacing 2xHLE19. The other vehicles were M6.
See Haltelink for the details but I saw it at Brussel-Centraal.

Sorry for English. The headlines in the global media give an incorrect impression of the announcement in Spain. The offer is much more restrictive than seems. Here is a Spanish article (in English fortunately) explaining what is free - https://spanishnewstoday.com/everything_you_need_to_know_about_n...

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I enjoyed myself. It was a nice day out. I hope there will be something similar later this year.

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Does anyone know what happened to the night train from Vienna today?
Delays more than 500 minutes - "12:09 Defekt an der Oberleitung " according to https://dbf.finalrewind.org/z/NJ%20424/Aachen%20Hbf?

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I plan to be there.
If anyone is still interested, there are places available in 2 of 3 offers.
Discovery - 13 of 100 available
Photo - 20 of 60 available
Lunch - sold out.

Sorry for English. 19251, 19252 and 19257 (Mons/Aulnoye) are in the NMBS journey planner for today and are shown departing/arriving Mons. I cannot find the 4th train. 19852 and 19858 are shown in the NMBS journey planner if you request journeys from Charleroi-Sud to Maubeuge but are not shown as dep...

Geen M7's op IC529 vanmorgen (2022-03-16).

Sorry for English. From sncfrailgen@groups.io. Not my information. Does anyone have intermediate times for Belgium? e.g. passing S Gravenbrakel (Braine-le-Comte)? Jon .......... As COJ mentioned on 5 March: "Freight wise the very last 67400 worked Belgian Quenast campaign starts 11/03 Blue 6762...

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I was told by a friend in France this morning that it does start 11/03 (i.e. today) with locos 67460/67579.

Zaterdag 12th
IC9236 = 2812+2813
IC513 = 1875+1876

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There are 2-3 places on line 50A between Gent-Sint-Pieters and Brussel-Zuid where Base have no signal. If I join a phone meeting at Gent, I will have to rejoin at least twice during the journey to Brussels.

Sorry for English. This may only be visible for people on twitter but @BunkerGraeme has just posted a picture of a trial installation of an ETCS L2 DMI on the new-build steam loco Tornado. https://twitter.com/BunkerGraeme/status/1478364997394870277/photo/1 See also https://www.railadvent.co.uk/2021/...

Sorry for English. A very detailed discussion of this topic can be found here - https://jonworth.eu/the-longest-train-journey-in-the-world/ . The author goes into a lot of detail about where to start from, which border crossings are closed due to Covid & which border crossings do not have a pass...