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Bremen-Paris with no planes | 48 comments (48 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Stuck in Koeln (none / 0)

Sorry you had to endure such travel. Hope you were able to at least check out the Cathedral next to the station.

According to Iceland geologists, this chaos may be around for a while.

I'm really glad i've got my DB 50% Pass already.

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin

by Crazy Horse on Sun Apr 18th, 2010 at 06:12:26 AM EST

Re: Stuck in Koeln (none / 1)

No, we did not leave the train station in Köln.
I have just gotten word that no planes will be leaving Paris tomorrow, so my participation at the big EWEC conference in Warsaw this week is now uncertain. It' a pity, as I was chairing the panel on offshore wind and was hoping to do some good advertising for my new company...

Wind power

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Sun Apr 18th, 2010 at 01:47:30 PM EST
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Re: Stuck in Koeln (none / 1)

You could always drive there... It would take you two days, though.

The brainless should not be in banking -- Willem Buiter

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Apr 18th, 2010 at 01:51:42 PM EST
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By train (none / 0)

I see there was a night train from Mannheim to Warsaw. What would be the best place to book that? Mannheim is easily reached by TGV from Paris.

Wind power

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Sun Apr 18th, 2010 at 02:39:34 PM EST
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Re: By train (none / 1)

Bahn.de? You can also do travel planning for the whole of Europe though you cannot book non-DB trains through that website.

The brainless should not be in banking -- Willem Buiter

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Apr 18th, 2010 at 02:47:52 PM EST
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Re: By train (none / 0)

Also Köln-Warsaw. If you have a hard time getting a ticket out of Paris, driving to one of these and then taking the train might work. You can book the night train (but not always the train from Paris) on bahn.de; I checked several of them, and they even have some discount rates for couchettes left; I doubt that's what you're looking for, but it's an indication that not too many people are trying this option.

by gk (g k quattro due due sette "at" gmail.com) on Sun Apr 18th, 2010 at 03:15:22 PM EST
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Re: By train (none / 1)

I've found the Mannheim-Warsaw online, but they won't let me book. They provide a phone number; I'll try tomorrow morning.

Wind power

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Sun Apr 18th, 2010 at 03:28:04 PM EST
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Re: By train (4.00 / 2)

Yes, it's one of those old D-trains. The Köln one is a standard EN train, and online booking seems to work, so you can try that if you can't get through to that number (I wouldn't be surprised if they are as overloaded as everything else). The Mannheim one actually starts from Basel, so Karlsruhe might be a more convenient place to catch it.

by gk (g k quattro due due sette "at" gmail.com) on Sun Apr 18th, 2010 at 03:33:28 PM EST
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Re: By train (4.00 / 5)

Hopefully this mess will result in a higher priority on high speed rail. A direct AGV express train Paris-Brussels-Köln-Hannover-Berlin-Poznan-Warsaw should take something like 6 hours, if it averages about 250 km/h. Not that impossible with a top speed of 350 km/h.

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Sun Apr 18th, 2010 at 05:54:04 PM EST
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Re: Stuck in Koeln (4.00 / 5)

Heh. Incidentally, over the past few workdays, I was trying to get the permissions and tickets for a conference in Lille, which I finally got all today. As between 18:02 at the Gare du Nord and 20:20 at the Gare de l'Est on the 21st, I would be in Paris, I thought to ask about a mini-meetup -- that's obsolete I guess.

On the other hand, I just got an email from the conference organisers, who are considering to call it off due to the air travel situation. (A rail conference, close to a HSR station, called off due to air traffic problems... sigh.)

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Mon Apr 19th, 2010 at 07:06:31 AM EST
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