Anchor vs Bollard.
SNAPPED IT LIKE A TWIG.
#WorldBollardAssociation
This FT piece about how Germany is fixing its railways, and why it has to, is not bad www.ft.com/content/db75...
It's one of few such articles where I am not screaming at my screen because they made some error
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www.ft.com
The country’s railway renewal is the first test of whether Europe’s largest economy can reverse years of decline
Right. And FT does that properly. Some other media... well, rather less!
Jon Worth
Thanks. Hmmm. Looking at the track layout and satellite imagery there’s nothing obvious. The station is to get an extra track with the Toulouse RER style network improvements but that doesn’t explain it either. It shall - for now! - remain a mystery.
Correct. They normally don’t charge you.
*If* French rail gets you where you want to go, when you want to go, and you can get a ticket for the train you need, it will then run reliably.
But that it can do all of those earlier steps is not obvious!
Just go to the Eurostar desk and ask to be re-booked if you miss a train in Brussels. Whether it’s Interrail or not won’t matter much, they’re generally reasonably accommodating (even though strictly they don’t have to be)
The electrification masts on the original photo have also obviously just been replaced. The sleepers are modern and fresh too
Same here. When I am in France I long for Germany! 🙂
Seriously - I am not joking. At least Germany runs LOTS of trains, albeit unreliably. France, not so much (no train from my local station for the next 4 hours here in Bourgogne)
*the German rail system* (if I am being picky)
Because given the state of the infra, and the under-investment, you cannot point the finger at DB alone
But the key point I agree with of course
