supposedly they have stocked up a bit, but still. something like 300 people who are getting hungry, have been on this train 14-18h already, and are now queueing two cars down

Oh hey we have brake troubles and are losing some more time

aaaand the kids in the queue are getting screamy. anc save me

Having lost another hour and change here, if we get moving as promised, we'll probably make Stockholm a bit before 8pm

for a while there we were ~30min ahead of the DB estimate, which hasn't updated since Padborg. now we're, by my guess, about 40min behind it.

(cc @partim@social.tchncs.de)

we're roughly 10h delayed at this point.

the bistro has officially admitted to being out of food.

whelp. the last alternative train I was potentially eyeing has also sold out. so I'm kinda ride or die on this now

why travel Hamburg to Stockholm in 11h when you can do it in nearly 24

Oh hey we're a) speed capped to 120, and b) being rerouted, estimated to lose another hour, so maybe it'll be 9pm

one of the people in my compartment wanted to go to Linköping, so this is more than mildly inconvenient to him, and at this point the announcements are the only thing we have to go off since this train doesn't really even exist in live tracking systems afaict

the crew is being changed before our diversion and just said, more or less, "thank you for everything"

is this the train version of the Titanic

briefly considered booking an X2000 that goes from our extraordinary stop at Mjölby to Stockholm - it'd be there at 21:07. we're supposed to make the same time. I'm not optimistic at this point. but tbh at this point I do kinda wanna see this through to the end out of spite

"is this a form of Stockholm syndrome", my friend asks

You can see the erosion of my sanity over the last 24h of posts

my stay for tonight just emailed me codes for late check in. can't say I expected to need those today, with a planned arrival before 10am...

also lately coverage has been intermittently useless, claiming 3G but not successfully connecting to anything

oh and also hay fever has been beating my ass all day, antihistamines notwithstanding. romantic as open windows may be I'd prefer AC at this point ngl

also tho, going a leisurely 120 (because of the brake problems), and having the window open, and then having a train whoosh past in the opposite direction is wild

ngl I still feel weird and fuzzy and a bit sad every time I take a new night train somewhere and find the couchettes are again old DB CNL stock, and at most they've had some new stickers applied and gotten some new livery
like
it's kinda cool to see how far they've travellered
but it also makes me whistful being reminded there's so many, and they used to be such a large network run by and from probably the best suited country for it, and DB just threw it all away