Travelling
Jun. 30th, 2015 10:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dormouse1953After over a week of more or less trouble free travelling, today I had my first problem.
Got my train from Stockholm no problem this morning and that got into Copenhagen in plenty of time for my connection to Hamburg. That train goes part of the way on a ferry between Denmark and Germany. You are not allowed to stay on the train whilst the crossing is in progress, but it was just the time of evening when I felt like a meal and there's a café on the ferry.
We docked at Puttgarden and everyone got back on the train. As it started coming off the ferry there was an announcement that there was a fault with the train and we would have to get off at Puttgarden station to await a replacement train. It was a pleasantly sunny summer's evening to be waiting on the platform; there is no cover on the platform.
What actually happened was that the train from Hamburg arrived and everyone on that got off and transferred to the train we had just left. Then we got on the newly empty train. I presume the fault - they said it was the air-conditioning - meant that it was no problem transferring the passengers onto the ferry and a new train could pick them up in Denmark.
The idea was that the seat reservations transferred over to the new train, but there seemed to be many arguments among people claiming to be in the same seats when they weren't.
And then when we got to Lübeck there was a delay leaving due to signalling problems. The train got to Hamburg finally about 45 minutes late. Fortunately it was still light and my hotel was not far from the station.
Got my train from Stockholm no problem this morning and that got into Copenhagen in plenty of time for my connection to Hamburg. That train goes part of the way on a ferry between Denmark and Germany. You are not allowed to stay on the train whilst the crossing is in progress, but it was just the time of evening when I felt like a meal and there's a café on the ferry.
We docked at Puttgarden and everyone got back on the train. As it started coming off the ferry there was an announcement that there was a fault with the train and we would have to get off at Puttgarden station to await a replacement train. It was a pleasantly sunny summer's evening to be waiting on the platform; there is no cover on the platform.
What actually happened was that the train from Hamburg arrived and everyone on that got off and transferred to the train we had just left. Then we got on the newly empty train. I presume the fault - they said it was the air-conditioning - meant that it was no problem transferring the passengers onto the ferry and a new train could pick them up in Denmark.
The idea was that the seat reservations transferred over to the new train, but there seemed to be many arguments among people claiming to be in the same seats when they weren't.
And then when we got to Lübeck there was a delay leaving due to signalling problems. The train got to Hamburg finally about 45 minutes late. Fortunately it was still light and my hotel was not far from the station.
