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Cat poni, Whorseman of Apocalypse

Correct elefant.
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Very short trip but as I said, too tired for much more running.
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@pony one day I dream of going on a double decker train
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@ljs the UK is like literally the worst place in the world for that though
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@pony yeah we literally don't have ANY as far as Iknow
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@ljs I think they tried something in the sixties but it was such an abomination that not even the BR could justify it
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@pony that must have been QUITE the abomination then.
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@ljs @pony Bit surprising given when UK is known for double-decker busses.
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@lanodan @pony been on those many a time.

Top deck at front best seat, but in high contention
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@ljs @lanodan you have to do things that should not in order to fit at least theoretical two floors in the uk loading gauge
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@pony @lanodan yeah that looks um. Interesting.
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@ljs @pony note these are becoming slowly deprecated and I'm not aware of any new ones being double decked?
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@vbabka @ljs the středočeský region wants new trains from 2030 roughly, at the capacity parameters which will require them to be bi-levels, there's plenty of possible designs to buy, but even though elefants are an aging desing, surely they are not going anywhere in the next 10-15 years
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@lanodan UK rail being the oldest in the world means that they standardized on a structure gauge that's quite narrow & low. Low to a degree that it's impossible to have a double-deck cars or to transport ISO containers on top of flat cars.

@pony @ljs

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@vbabka @pony @ljs you can go by double decker train from Vienna, if you happened to be there

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@vbabka @pony @ljs (but not to Czechoslovakia, it's Westbahn's rolling stock iirc)

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@pony @ljs @vbabka ok, fair point! Os Znojmo – Vienna are indeed double deckers.

And Znojmo is quite lovely (if you're drunk enough).

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@hny @pony @ljs @vbabka As the saying goes: “Znojmo, vidím tě dvojmo.” (“Znojmo, I see a double image of you.”)

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@djasa @lanodan @pony anything's possible if you ignore safety enough!
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@ljs @pony yes, right?
they go from everywere from prague to pardubice and then in slovakia and austria. not in brno. fucking embarassing!

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@ljs @pony meanwhile in brno :(

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@lkundrak @ljs yeah this is a terrible train
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@ljs @pony it's okay if you're not on it

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@lkundrak @ljs i mean, when i was going to the high school, they were an upgrade over what we got normally, when there was one
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