Würzburg is a bit of a strange town for us. We first stayed overnight after our first season of #JetLagTheGame. We stayed literally opposite the station, and it was a bit pricey and a bit meh.
The second time we stayed overnight during the #ICEAgeChallenge. We discovered that there were actual […]
And tonight, I am flop. I have a lot more yet to write as an epilogue. But, for now, all I have to say is: #ICEAgeChallenge Completed
However, tomorrow I head off again, in search of more context. Whilst the challenge itself is over, I still have plenty to say on the ICE itself. Some anecdotes […]
Wendy the DBJUNGLESKOG, @darkphoenix@not.an.evilcyberhacker.net and myself sat round a four person table in the first class compartment of the new ICE L. A sunset can be seen through the window…
On the rails again… #ICEL #ICEAgeChallenge #Interrail
We are now on the first ever commercial service of the ICE L from Köln to Berlin.
I am joined by @darkphoenix, and Wendy the DBJUNGLESKOG is sitting in for @MagicLike who’s operating the camera here […]
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Selfie in front of the Köln Dom
Good afternoon, and welcome to the fourth and final day of the #ICEAgeChallenge!
Today is the reason that we started this whole crazy trip, the (almost) maiden voyage of the new ICE L!
Today is the first day of the new railway timetable, and traditionally […]
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@lewd Enjoy the trip! I’m riding on the return leg with some fedi friends this afternoon as the last train on the #ICEAgeChallenge
@darkphoenix@not.an.evilcyberhacker.net, Wendy the DBJUNGLESKOG, and I either side of a small table in the first class compartment of an :ice_3: ICE 3 (407). Its not really clear what can be seen out the window
On the rails again… #ICEAgeChallenge #Interrail
This morning Wendy the DBJUNGLESKOG, @darkphoenix and I are on an :ice_3: ICE 3 (407) that is doing the Berlin-Paris route.
This was one of the pivotal trains in the itinerary, :ice_3: ICE 3 (407)s only really […]
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On the rails again… #ICEAgeChallenge #Interrail
We actually had a choice of trains today, an :ice_4: ICE 4 that pulled into platform 4, and this :ice_t: ICE T that pulled into platform 5 just as the 4 was leaving.
I have of course ordered a Hot Tea to have on this :ice_t: ICE T.
I’m going to […]
Good Morning, and welcome to Day 2 of the #ICEAgeChallenge!
Yesterday was a day of getting heavily Bahned, and having to deal with alternative transport options using a severely limited selection of trains. We also had some history, and Gin and Tonics.
You can see my thread up on […]
Me and @darkphoenix@not.an.evilcyberhacker.net in front of the clock on the outside of Würzburg Hbf
Last July, @darkphoenix, @quixoticgeek and I played #JetLagTheGame for the first time in Germany. After three long, intense, and exhausting days we ended up spending the night in Würzburg once the game was over, before taking an :ice_1: ICE 1 up the Rhine […]
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Ash and Wendy the DBJUNGLESKOG sat round a 4-seat table in the first class compartment of an :ice_2: ICE 2. The window shows the reflection of everything, as it’s dark outside
On the rails again…
And we’re back on the #ICEAgeChallenge, now on our second type of train, an :ice_2: ICE 2 to Würzburg, where we will be spending the night.
@darkphoenix@not.an.evilcyberhacker.net, Wendy the DBJUNGLESKOG and myself in the first class cabin of an :ice_1: ICE 1. Some random brick buildings can be seen through the window
On the rails again… #ICEAgeChallenge #Interrail
Today we start off on a thoroughly delayed and half-cancelled :ice_1: ICE 1.
I am ably joined by @darkphoenix and Wendy the DBJUNGLESKOG, and we are busy enjoying the first class cabin of this refurbished […]
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Good Morning! Today is Day 1 of the #ICEAgeChallenge and boy is it starting off with a Bahng!
In case you’re not up to speed, the #ICEAgeChallenge was set to me by @quixoticgeek a month or so ago. @darkphoenix decided to join in, as the challenge progressed, and has been a great help in setting […]
Selfie of me with green and red hair sat on a first class seat in a CFL double decker IC. I’m wearing a black t-shirt that says “I see you shiver with Antici-“
[Selfie, eye contact, musical cliffhanger…]
One day left… #ICEAgeChallenge
View out of the passageway window opposite the compartment I am in. A big conifer can be seen through the window.
On the rails again… #InterRail
Today it’s a quick hop to Koblenz, where I’ll be starting the #ICEAgeChallenge tomorrow.
This particular ICE 1 is full enough that there are a few people standing in the hallways in first class, and I had to gently ask someone […]
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On the rails again… #Interrail
This morning I am heading up to Hannover to meet up with an entity and see some of the city.
The eagle-eyed amongst you will quickly see that this is not an ICE seat being modelled by Wendy the DBJUNGLESKOG, but a greener […]
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Wendy the DBJUNGLESKOG sat in a first class single seat on the top deck of a TGV Euroduplex, playing on their tablet. Through the window can be seen the platforms at the as-yet-unopened Barcelona-La Sagrera station, with the front of a Renfe Series 103 parked at the platform.
On the rails again… #Interrail #CrossBorderRail
Today, Wendy the DBJUNGLESKOG and I are heading off on an 11-hour 1,600km slog through France on a couple of TGV Duplexes, going, via Paris Gare de Lyon and Paris Gare de l’Est, to Karlsruhe Hbf.
Today’s […]
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Map of an itinerary that goes from Hamburg to Kassel, to Fulda, to Mainz, to Siegburg/Bonn, to Frankfurt, to Duisburg, to Köln, to Berlin
Map of an itinerary that goes from Frankfurt to Fulda, to Lüneburg, to Bruchsal, to Stuttgart, to Karlsruhe, to Duisburg, to Köln to Berlin
An update on #ICEAgeChallenge routing: it all went a bit meh, but we found alternatives.
I suppose part of the problem was that I wanted something interesting, and this routing algorithm was definitely not managing that. Whatever I did, it basically spent […]
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So, I don’t normally announce my trips much in advance, but I’ve been talking about the #ICEAgeChallenge for a while.
It’s also quite likely it’s going to be my last big trip for a few months, for various reasons, most of them good.
I have a couple of days free around the 8/9 December […]
So, after a lot of faffing around with the #ICEAgeChallenge code, including crashing my mac due to too much memory usage, I finally seem to be getting somewhere.
I ended up only needing data from bahn.expert - it seems that the website downloads the entire ICE Timetable whenever you access the […]
…and, thanks to the terrible coverage between Perpignan and Barcelona, where for practical purposes you are offline, I sat down and brainstormed more stuff for #ICEAgeChallenge, and basically enjoyed a comfy chair and a desk and Synthwave on the headphones.
I arrived at Barcelona more or less […]
I made it to Paris at 13:44, 73 minutes after I was supposed to. I had 57 minutes to change from Gare de l'Est to Gare de Lyon, and that barely game me enough time to navigate the metro system, including a change in train, and to grab something to eat on the train, which sadly was Chez McDó - a […]
So, for the moment, I've been working on downloading the data into a sqlite database, and failing to get progress bars working.
You can follow my code at: https://code.moof.space/moof/ice-age-challenge - there's not much there yet
#ICEAgeChallenge
So I give the Transitous GTFS another try. Thanks to a few hints from @transitous I'm now looking at the Trip data in the GTFS, and I'm finding that the trip_short_name column seems to have the trip number I need, though with a bunch of 0 padding.
This lua script from the Transitous repository […]
To recap: I looked at the GTFS, and the Transitous GTFS, and I couldn't make head or tail of the routes that the GTFS had.
I have taken a quick side-quest, and looked at the original NeTEx data from the National Access Point.
For the record, the official list of NAPs can be found at […]
For those of you who are following this saga, I'm starting again today, as I have a little time to kill. And I'm going to try something different again. I'm also calling this the #ICEAgeChallenge, which is the hashtag I'm using for future posts about this.
You can find the next thread up at […]
For those of you keeping, um, track, I've taken on something I've decided to call the #ICEAgeChallenge - take all the ICE trains in order of when they were put into service, ending with the first ICE-L trip from Köln-Berlin on the 14th of December
I'm also publicly documenting my attempts to […]
