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"date": "2025-07-21",
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"title": "Basecamp - Wookey train horrendosity",
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"place": "Basecamp",
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"other_people": "",
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"text": "<p>Wookey's train journey from Calais to expo didn't go to plan due mostly to Deutsche Bahn being rubbish: 4 out of 6 segments were late or missing.\n<p>Plan was:\n <pre> \n Calais 6:34 Paris Nord 09:32 ICE SNCF\n Paris Est 10:54 Stuttgart 14:04 ICE DB\n Stuttgart 14:51 Muenchen 16:49 ICE DB\n Muenchen 17:29 Salzburg 18:58 REX DB\n Salzburg 19:45 Bad Ischel 20:59 Bus 150\n Bad Ischl 21:04 Bad Aussee 21:40 Local train\n </pre>\n<p>As everyone was up the hill Frank had left car at the stn and PhilS was going to deliver keys by bike</p>\n<p>\n<p>First Calais train set off 20 mins late, setting the tone for the\nday. I had left plenty of time for connections, knowing that DB are\nuseless, so caught Paris to Stuttgart easily, but that one ended up 40\nmins late. 54 mins for connection meant it should still have been OK,\nbut the Stuttgart to Muenchen train was cancelled completely, (and\nclearly other trains had gone wrong) so the station was total chaos\nwith hundreds of stranded and confused passengers milling about.</p>\n<p>\n<p>Next train to Munich now had two trains-worth of people on it, but\nI managed to get on. Spent the whole time online recalculating\npossibilities. As well as starting 30 mins later than original plan,\nthis train ended up being a few more mins late, so I missed train to Salzburg\nby 4 minutes (grr!). Got next one, however that was Austrian (not DB)\nso didn't honour DB tickets, leaving me paying another 35 euro (the\nkind conductor let me pretend I started at a later station than\nMuenchen so at least it wasn't 50 euro!</p>\n<p>\n <p> All this meant I actually got to Salzburg back on schedule,\narriving at 150 bus stop with 10 mins to spare. Result! But then the\n150 bus just drove past without stopping (so annoying!), so I had to\nget next one. This bus stopped for 15 mins en-route for the driver to\ntalk to a couple of police offers for some mysterious reason,\nguaranteeing that I missed the agreed train to Bad Aussee. At least\nthere _are_ later trains to BA these days. Eventually made it to BA\nabout 1.5 hours late at 23:06. By this time Frank & James had come\ndown after derigging gruffalo, so the complicated bike-assissted\nrecovery was not needed, and Frank kindly came to pick me up.</p>\n<p>\n<p>All a bit of a faff really. Even leaving sensible 40-min+\nconnection gaps is not enough to save one from DB's cockups if trains\njust disappear, and buses ignore you.</p>\n<p>\n<p>Lots of people up the hill leaving wet washing strewn about the site. Sunshine meant that this could be dried and folded.\n<br>\n<img src=\"/years/2025/before.jpg\" width=40%> <img src=\"/years/2025/after.jpg\" width=40%>",
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"slug": "2025-07-21c",
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"time_underground": 0.0,
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"author": {
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"slug": "philip-sargent",
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"nickname": "Philip S.",
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"tu": 0.0
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},
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"trippersons": [
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{
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"slug": "philip-sargent",
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"nickname": "Philip S.",
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"tu": 0.0
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},
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{
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"slug": "frank-tully",
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"nickname": "Frank",
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"tu": 0.0
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},
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{
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"slug": "james-waite",
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"nickname": "James W.",
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"tu": 0.0
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},
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{
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"slug": "wookey",
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"nickname": "Wookey",
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"tu": 0.0
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}
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],
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"expedition": {
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"year": "2025",
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"name": "CUCC expo 2025"
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}
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} |