On railtrack one the express train holds. Departure was 16:59 o'clock. So the loudspeaker announcement. It is 17 o'clock. Have I missed the train which should only drive now? Not that the road would have even other paradoxes on camp. On the contrary: whoever of the road accuses, she is disorganised, that keeps before eyes that smoker's carriages always hold exactly before the smoker' s area on the platform.

Now one mounts the road, that which my son loves in such a way because she goes by tunnel, nevertheless, I fear in such a way because those tunnels seem to me rather than gates of black holes, lost in the whirlpool of astrophysical paradoxes. The road stands, although it should go.

And the time runs and does not wait, just a little like the connecting trains. In this respect trains and time have in common something, just as those two slightly drunk men in the smoker's compartment who find everything quite easy to me completely incomprehensible abbreviations in the smoky air throw from which I could catch then, nevertheless, at least one: Request for Change, briefly RFC. Here very briefly it probably concerns inquiry of us to common company users to the Admins if something does not fit us: is it the screen, the mouse or these underhand protocols of our surfing behaviour during the working hours.

Now, because the Copy and paste of own imagination of violence cannot be transferred, unfortunately, to other passengers just like that and one on account of anthropological cooperation patterns (we do not sit everything in the same train) can be sure that own campaign (quietens these idiots!) and would fall back not even on itself, one helps himself of the learnt or rather seen political patterns and takes up the mud with which one is pelted as flowers with thanks. In the end, are used closer and policy than one would have expected it from freight traffic and goodness traffic. At last one is a writer and as such always with the eyes in the newspaper and with the ears one perceives the oscillations, the Dolby Surround of the surroundings. Sometimes it helps yes to twist the eyes to let gild the silver look.

SHELL we the cost of petrol raise? To me all the same, central issue out here, I imagine, while Odysseus, our passenger's manager, from people rouses himself in high voltage told and my trip surreal and, nevertheless, binary (if one which is binario the Italian word for rail) so regular forms accepts which contradict the fact that one will have seated exactly the same delay whether now against or in direction of the traffic, because timetables are co-operative agreements between the Ratio and libido, to the Astralchaos and the categories, in the people try to press such a thing unfathomable like time, like the relation (or if I had to do opposition say) between guards and her uniforms. Similarly cramped the certainty, that one feels itself with mounting the road not only to her commercial terms and services, but also the arbitrariness or. to the wide field of unfastened rails pauses and asks itself in view of these facts whether forgetting the ticket really does not count like the multilingual posters believe want to do.

Is it not extremely making easier then to rid itself simply of the recollection of certain disagreeable trips, while one swallows the ticket and retires to confidential place? Fortunately, every trip is limited by two points, to the start and the purpose, and thus at least these both fixed stars remain as a hold in the blind firmament, like the hold clutches which should serve at entrances and exits for secure rises and descents. Which will be the entrance or exit shortly before entrance in the next railroad station, is to the goodwill of an ethereal loudspeaker voice or own free will leave. If one positions himself instinctively on the left or on the right to the door, one will see surrounding himself directly from disciples who would follow one, even if the putative exit would lead directly on the rails. If one has chosen, however, by chance the right door, the nervousness is the bigger, because as soon as the train reaches the railroad station, the initial obedience of the others will overturn in thankless impatience, then is once the exit from the collective rolling prison, indicated the escape route from this enforced communion, gratitude would be only one obstructive foot chain with the jump in the freedom won anew. In this respect are people who are 'in the Drücker', a sort of the coalition leaders who could also not squeeze strictly, the button and hinder other in it. However, the receipt trellis of the already waiting passengers in the platform is probably much too tempting when then one could refuse to flatten the way by the hall of the fame to himself as more first and to pull up a suitcase behind himself not only.

Now around 08:33 the intercity express should start early now his departure. From tiredness blinded one proceeds half an hour before the departure in the day room and does to himself fast a coffee to hide the tiredness. While the coffee cooks, one proceeds fast in the changing room to dress in the uniform, to make himself quickly fresh once again and to get his equipment from the wardrobe. Now the colleagues with whom one will spend the whole day have also already arrived at the break space.

Now friendly one greets himself and sees in the eyes of the other the same tiredness and listlessness like with himself. Now the coffee fast drunk up, the cigarette finished it goes to the rail on one best of all 10 minutes before train entrance arrives to search the smoker's area and to reach before the big "flood" once again to the cigarette. While one observes the passengers and hopes that everything are with good mood, one hears the loudspeakers which sounding and informing one under big sighing that the train has up to 20 minutes of delay. Well that, besides, one has more than only one cigarette. One hears the passengers grumbling, his uniform cannot hide, because the day is very hot and one carries no jacket and knows that it concerns only seconds, responds to one a passenger and wants to do to his frustration free run.

In thoughts submergedly a businessman on also already comes up, provide with tie and act suitcase, and acts a fierce look. Now he asks what has happened then, which is why the train has delay, and that he would have to do, nevertheless, an important appointment and delays lately happen repeatedly. With a friendly smile put on to which one must force himself in this situation one explains to the worth passenger now that it probably came by another delay and, unfortunately, one cannot change it, however that the train will almost make up for the delay probably during the journey again. With bad look and not completely satisfied the passenger proceeds again back in his starting position and now, finally, one can smoke his cigarette to an end.
Now some minutes later there sounds the sound speech arrangement and announces that now the train drives. Gladly that the delay does not increase, one looks at the railroad engine which goes to the train. Doors open, guards greet who have now end of work, help passengers in the train and visit the guard's compartment. The things are unloaded and one proceeds with key and signal disc to the doors, because the train will immediately drive off. Now once the door broken down, the disc swung and the door goes off unanimously it. The tickets are controlled, the passengers still get excited about the not forgotten delay and one goes step by step by his carriages.

Now 2 hours have already passed, after 3 coffees and 5 flows. One wants to start just the 6-th flow, there one notices as hotly it becomes sudden. The air-conditioning has fallen out because of technical problems and in the engine something also does not seem to be right. " Well, really ", one imagines and proceeds to the train boss to ask what is to be done now. Free drinks and vouchers distribute.

At this request one immediately knows, enough drinks are not there for everything and there will be turmoil again, because some get excited because of to less drinks. Drinks now taken in hand, vouchers in the pocket and a put on smile it goes by the next three carriages, in hope that, nevertheless, at least the train would go on.

Nothing happens, as a guard one is at this moment a Satan even for the passengers and the drinks lean towards to the end. Thank God. The train goes on. Then in just 1 hour the train reaches the purpose city and one may draw a deep breath. The last drinks distributed, passengers calms and tickets controlled this also passes like in the flight. The loudspeaker informs that the journey is at few minutes to an end and one gets a breather in the purpose city.

With the thoughts, how then the return journey runs and what one does now with his free time in the city, one helps the people from the train and then gets out even with a sigh of the train of the bad nerves demanded and is already glad about the end of work coming in 6 hours. The colleagues a nice break desired one saunters with his heavy guard's equipment above the platform in the direction of exit and hopes for the return journey for an expiry more full of friction than how it with the journey there was.

I often go by railroad. Because I must be on the move professionally a lot, I am on the move also on almost all sections. On the journey from Berlin to Leipzig the train is used to capacity always especially well. I let myself mostly book my place, so that I must not stand in the way.

On the journey about which I want to tell here virtually every place was taken in the train. I rose in Berlin in the train and sat in a closed compartment with six places. I looked successively at my fellow-passengers. It lasts always some minutes till one to itself on the place has furnished and has taken the perfect seat position. Towards me sits a young couple. Both keep mutually to the hands and look everybody for themselves down at the ground.

If one do a trip, he can tell what, this particularly applies to travelling by railroad, because with the travelling with her one can really experience something, positive and, unfortunately, also the negative.

With a trip to a cure in the Black Forest some years ago I had to change several times to reach to my purpose. It problematically and exceedingly stressful was to be reached during the change in another train with full luggage by a too other platform I need to no road traveller tell, because this is quite quite usual ones. Just with a lot of luggage one makes headway only hard. Upstairs and downstairs this is not easy. When I sat in my second train and was an end already by view, the train stopped at a place what nothing is unusual. But it simply did not go on. The train stood and stood and I became more and more worried. However, no train staff came by the train to say what was a thing. And the time pressed, because once again I had to change. Then, finally, after well one half an hour of the shutdown a guard came once by him explained that the traction engine is broken and one would wait for a new one. Then, finally, after other half an hour it went on for me and my fellow-passengers and thank God I still reached my continuing train and could start afterwards then a being relaxing cure.

The first trip of my grandson, at that time 4 years old, and to me should be about 800 km long. Indeed, I also went with pleasure with the passenger car, but I wanted to put back a such long distance only with a small child quite comfortably by railroad. I had booked seats, so that we had to look while getting not long. The first hours of the journey passed fast and entertaining. My grandson was astonished how fast the scenery flew past to us, enjoyed itself with all kinds of delicacies and toys which I had wrapped up as a precaution and thus we were of good things. Then he became slowly tired, because we had got up quite early. He snuggled up on his seat together and had fast fallen asleep. Now I could put the nose, finally, in my book.

Travelling forms, says the vernacular. At least with this journey studied the rings under the eyes especially well. Our purpose was Milan, hence, we took the night train from Dortmund. Certainly we could also have flown, but the journey to the respective airports was easy too far, in addition, we had to go from Milan still after Verona.

Train journeys are a great thing. One must concentrate, to the train driver thanks, not on the street are and can look comfortably from the window. Yes even walk around, go for a walk, possibly to the dining car. Nevertheless, it goes on. One can sleep - with incurred curtains against the dizzy spell - wonderfully. If one wanted, one gets to know many interesting people.

In America it does not belong to the rarities that railroad trains are attacked by bandits and are fired. Thus the persons responsible of the railroad management think to how the passengers would be to be protected in the carriages better. An idea is, the space are built between the steel records from those the walls of the railroad cars to fill with old phone books.

Festival writing to 75 annual celebrations from the year 1929

With the later built roads which used iron constructions the old bridges already had to be exchanged here and there for such of more modern construction, with the stone nen landmarks of the technology on the Semmering quite damaged bridge curvatures were mended or substituted in the tunnels the old clay bricks with concrete brick, but her construction itself has needed no renewal, she had as grown to the requirements of the traffic at that time as the company from today with his gigantic machines and his massive and, nevertheless, easily up to hurrying expresses which the load trains stamping hard there follow; except some run away carriages a workplace accident was to be registered during 75 years also not. Ghega was the first one which built a road over a mountain, and he built them for centuries!

Not only in our austrian alps, but also in the level east of Austria, in particular on the main distance Bruck a. d. Leitha - Hegyeshalom in Hungary the snow complicates the railroad company. For days the wind blows, grows up to the hurricane-like storm and blows him to metre-high snowdrifts together.