Chiel
chiel.uk
Chiel
@chiel.uk
Transport lover, bit of a nerd :)
@bahn.de Hi! I made a seat reservation for Stuttgart Hbf to Wien Hbf on the following trains, but due to delay and cancellation of my previous ICE's I was unable to get to Stuttgart in time for my ICE, can i get the €6.50 back? I don't see any way to get it back via db navigator or the website.
June 15, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Hey that’s me
VIDEO!!
We rode the TRUE longest train journey in the UK!
The engineering works special Penzance - Aberdeen via Newport!
youtu.be/2ySzTanLalc
The UK’s Longest Train Journey.. But Even Longer?!
YouTube video by Nick Badley
youtu.be
June 2, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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As if Aberdeen to Penzance wasn't silly enough, only today, there is a Penzance to Aberdeen train, that takes a longer route and takes nearly an hour longer as it goes via Wales.

I am joined by @chiel.uk @nickbadley.com and some people I don't have the bluesky of, so this journey will be fun!
May 3, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Well, it seems like people can find the direct trains to London again, this queue is long even just 45 minutes before planned departure!
April 24, 2025 at 4:50 AM
So, I spent entirely too much time on making a map of all the engineering works on Easter Sunday so I can find a good place to stay, and it is too useful not to share here so enjoy trainlog.me/public/tag/9...
easter sunday engineering works
1621 km in 🇬🇧
trainlog.me
April 17, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Thanks for the (unexpected) meetup! It was a very fun ride with you towards Amsterdam!
April 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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The end of an era! The farewell of @bahn.de's ICE3M - a train that once heralded the glorious expansion of high speed rail across Europe, connecting 🇳🇱, 🇧🇪 and 🇫🇷 to the ICE network. A train that even once went through the tunnel to London 🇬🇧 for a Germany <> London rail link that never came.
chiel.uk Chiel @chiel.uk · Apr 12
The real reason I went all the way to Hannover Messe! Normally seeing hourly S bahn traffic, right now it has an international ICE on the departure board
April 12, 2025 at 7:45 AM
So good morning everyone, from a cloudy Hannover Messe/Laatzen. Today I’m gonna do something quite special, and yesterday I got here via this route: trainlog.me/public/trip/...
April 12, 2025 at 5:04 AM
@jonworth.eu seems like your april fools joke can be blown into some new life :) virgintrain.de/downloads/vi...
April 11, 2025 at 10:19 AM
@jonworth.eu thank you for hosting today, had great fun meeting new people today and love the conversations sparked today!
March 27, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Bumped into @chiel.uk in Brussels, not quite sure what is up with their face in this photo 🤪
March 24, 2025 at 11:01 AM
I visited for a whole 5 hours 15 minutes before we separated, just a little daytrip, staying the night in Brussels to then continue onwards towards NL tomorrow :)
My friend @chiel.uk had a flying visit to London today and has left me in charge of a gift for a mutual friend.

I kinda want to keep it myself. Hmm.

Oké, mijn Nederlandse vrienden, ik kom binnenkort weer naar Nederland.
March 23, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Well, I have randomly made my way into Germany and back to accompany @arturs.co.uk for part of their day today thanks to some cheap super last minute super sparpreis tickets and a school project that was finished earlier than expected. I’ve had great fun today, thank you!
trainlog.me/public/tag/c...
oops chiel is in Germany again
590 km in 🇳🇱 🇩🇪
trainlog.me
March 5, 2025 at 11:35 PM
So I guess I’m on my way to Brussels for a nice beer and listen about European cross border rail. This is probably the last time I’ll use ICR towards Belgium with the i11 and ICNG-B’s that are slowly but surely replacing them. Bit of a bummer as I was hoping for an ICNG to charge my phone🙈
January 28, 2025 at 2:35 PM
@seatsixtyone.bsky.social when are you getting domain verification🙈 bsky.social/about/blog/4...
How to verify your Bluesky account - Bluesky
Here's how to verify your Bluesky account by setting your website as your username.
bsky.social
January 15, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"
January 10, 2025 at 9:24 PM
And I am joined by Arturs today on a “quick” trip of train bashing :)
Quick stop in Zwolle to top up on snacks and refill my water bottle, and off I go again, now joined by @chiel.uk
January 9, 2025 at 8:13 AM
2024 stats
Distance: 77220 km
Time: 35 days, 2 hours, 46 minutes on trains
Countries visited:19(🇳🇱🇩🇪🇧🇪🇫🇷🇪🇸🇨🇭🇦🇹🇵🇱🇨🇿🇬🇧🇮🇪🇱🇮🇸🇮🇩🇰🇸🇪🇫🇮🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹)
Link: trainlog.me/public/tag/b...
Notes:A busy year, over triple my train km's of 2023 😮
579 things logged in trainlog, with car, train, ferry, bus and walking trips included
2024
77987 km in 🇧🇪 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇳🇱 🇩🇪 🇦🇹 🇪🇸 🇨🇭 🇨🇿 🇮🇪 🇺🇳 🇸🇮 🇫🇮 🇪🇪 🇱🇻 🇱🇹 🇵🇱 🇸🇪 🇱🇮 🇩🇰
trainlog.me
January 2, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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in need of A Project and also Girl

importantly these should be two separate things
December 26, 2024 at 3:13 PM
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Breakfast is the most important meal of the day
December 13, 2024 at 12:18 PM
@jonworth.eu I saw the map, and first thoughts: most Dutch stations/track are at capacity, and especially Schiphol would require massive infra spending closing (part of?) one of the largest airports of Europe, which is probably not socially acceptable. Eurostar services should move to Amsterdam Zuid
December 6, 2024 at 8:54 AM
Hmm yes Spotify wrapped
December 5, 2024 at 7:25 AM
November stats
Distance: 7405 km
Time: 3 days, 16 hours, 55 minutes (88 hours) on trains
Countries visited: 7(🇳🇱🇩🇪🇨🇿🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹🇵🇱)
Link: trainlog.me/public/trip/...
Notes: Second part of my Scandinavia/Baltic speedrun, plus long weekend in Poland
Trainlog trip starting on 01 November 2024
From 🇪🇪 Tartu to 🇳🇱 Zwolle
trainlog.me
November 30, 2024 at 11:26 PM
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In retrospect, asking social media managers to know about DNS has been a terrible idea
November 17, 2024 at 10:00 PM
Damnit no chiel.nl or chiel.eu available, so chiel.uk it is :(
chiel.nl
November 19, 2024 at 1:28 PM