ICE 14 endet in Aachen (Aktueller Betrieb)

Steffen, Dienstag, 19.01.2010, 11:15 (vor 5819 Tagen) @ jan_brno

Hi,

thants for your story.

All the time I knew that ICE 14 ended in Aachen

There was no ICE crossing the belgium border the last 2 weeks :( (technical Problems with the ICE)

But all the time I was also afraid that the Thalys train would be full,
so in Nuernberg I asked in ticket office for reservation for THA,
but there they told me that this is not possible...

You can only travel with Thalys when you have a "Special Thalys Ticket"; that includes a resevation. So because nobody has a ticket without reservation, it is not sessesary (and not posible) to make a seperate reservation.

Fortunately in Koeln station gave me some woman from customer service staff advice that the last coach of THA is for people like me (for travellers by ICE to Belgium). From that time I was the happiest man... Thalys departed on time and we were going fast to Aachen. We went throught the border tunnel and THEN:

"due to technical problems in track our train will be re-routed"!!! FUCK
so the result was +30 min and I missed my Eurostar.

This (=Buschtunnel) ist no "bordertunnel". The border ist about 5 kilometers behind the tunnel.

Thalys has sometimes problems with ETCS which is nessesary for the LGV (highspeedtrack) between Aachen and Liège, so he will travel on the "old" route to Liège (30 minutes longer).

BUT: Thalys tuns the old track, ICE didnt run anyway ;))

But they booked me for the next train, but it was +2 hours of waiting. So I had some beers.
Finally, at 20:59 (London time), I reached London.

It could be worse last days, so this is not tooooo bad^^

Steffen

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