@etam AH! FINALLY! Super news! Thank you

@pglux.bsky.social But this too is bollocks. They're not actually doing work most days. Organise it like a normal railway - only impose the blockade when you need to do works!

@moof CAF is generally the second worst 😀 But yes, some older Talgo models are OK.

@redjives You have to do track work whenever it suits SNCF to do track work. That means more or less any time other than 6am-9am and 5pm-8pm when SNCF employees need to get to and from work.

It makes total sense.

@mjr Oh it's rare to get a bus. They reason no one takes public transport outside of peak hours anyway. There was even a case recently when Mulhouse station was closed for a whole weekend - and that's a city! - and they provided no buses. To the annoyance of the Swiss as it's close to Basel.

@hugh I think it is simply - in Germany anyway - that as ovens have become more efficient, you just no longer need it, so it is no longer built into new flats. I am not aware of any explicit reason.

@hugh it’s getting rarer in Germany for ovens. Modern Berlin flats didn’t have it.

@hugh Sure. And if this had been Germany to a neighbouring country (other than France) it likewise would have been fine. This obviously needs an EU wide framework. CER is opposed though.

Here I am

In a deserted bar carriage on the TGV to Paris

With a chance of getting to Bourgogne tonight

And I’m only here with this chance because I did the precise opposite of what SNCF told me to do in Lille

@pglux.bsky.social I know, I know. Foolish me for assuming it might actually exist to transport people!

And here is one way that ex-Thalys Eurostar is MUCH better than SNCF

Last week I needed a Eurostar different to the planned one. Explained to the train manager, was let on in seconds.

Lille Europe with 4 SNCF staff hanging around - they try to get me to go queue to exchange my ticket.

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