Bye bye IC4

Looks like the 5 years delayed Italian IC4 trains from AnsaldoBreda will not make it to the Danish rails after all. Article in Danish about the highspeed train scandal in Denmark here.Blogged this mainly because of the fresh futuristic photo! :)

Bye bye bluebirds

The Copenhagen trainscene has for the past year been focused on something new, or more correctly, something old. After 20 years with the main focus on the old red, flat S-trains, many writers turned elsewhere when they got replaced by the new spaceships. The new playground became the old long distance trains that for decades had travelled the countryside in the usual red colour. But DSB decided to give them new make up in form of blue foil and use them them for one last mission before replacing them too with new models. Luckily for the writers, the new trains, IC4 from AnsaldoBreda, kept getting delayed and the old blue ones kept rolling without much buffing. But now it looks like their time has come. Today DSB revealed a new plan to have them all replaced with fancy doubledeckers from Bombardier by the end of 2009, also the German ICE trains will be used more in the crossborder traffic to Germany... So while we wait for the blue dream to end, here is a few nice panels...

Cyberbenching in Copenhagen

You know the situation, there is a panel in traffic and you have to catch it. In the old days you had to the know the DSB schedules and trainsystem pretty well to find the panel again.
These days you can just use a computer and follow your train around Copenhagen city with this handy site

They told us S-trains had to be red!

Since the mid 1980's writers have been painting S-trains in Copenhagen. DSB, the Danish Transport Authority, have always claimed that the S-trains had to be red in order to create a safe feeling and general law and order for the passengers. Well guess what, now many S-trains have started rolling with top to bottom, end to end advertisings plastered on over the former red steel. I guess its now ok to create anarchy and colours when someone pays for it...

But writers always get the last word...