{"id":8372,"date":"2024-09-26T01:30:45","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T01:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/rajoice-and-sing-at-semmering-2\/"},"modified":"2024-09-26T01:30:45","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T01:30:45","slug":"rajoice-and-sing-at-semmering-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/rajoice-and-sing-at-semmering-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Rajoice and Sing at Semmering (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u00a0Bus Travelling At Semmering<\/span><\/p>\n …where you will now find the Tourist Information Office. Next door is a supermarket and an unexplained roadside obelisk.<\/p>\n Round the back, someone has parked an old railcar in their back garden complete with a non working signal.<\/p>\n It is all fenced off, surrounded by undergrowth and very tatty. fbb can find no explanation but at least it confirms that it is not only the Brits who do potty things with large railway artifacts!<\/p><\/div>\n The only mildly useful thing that the interwebnet delivered was a list of stops.<\/p>\n Whether the “Old Man at Maria Schulz Ort” lives in the bus shelter was unclear, but he must be English or he would be Der Alte Mann<\/span>! [Please note: fbb did remember that translation from 1959!]<\/p><\/div>\n See the supermarket and the obelisk and, if you peer very closely, you can see the 343 resting serenely outside the town hall, picture above centre right. Never mind, fbb has enlarged it for you!<\/p>\n But, faced with a timetabular desert, fbb was unwilling to abandon his quest and by dint of some technological good fortune did eventually find a 343 table.<\/p><\/div>\n And one in the hands of the high speed Komet (?) company …<\/p>\n … and our 343 from the stable of Retter’s.<\/p>\n There are over 20 operators in the “association”.<\/p><\/div>\n Access to timetables is not very good.<\/p>\n Standardised fares throughout the region must be a real boon to passengers!<\/p>\n Apart from a non-working web site, the overall “association” seems to work; but fbb can only look on from afar. He simply does not know what the financial arrangements are. Suffice it to say that VOR has expanded its area over the years by absorbing other groupings and it does local trains as well<\/span>!<\/p><\/div>\n One area has a more substantial gondola ride.<\/p>\n Details of ski lifts are not easy to find but frequent skiers will have their favourite piste. For fbb, the very idea of sliding uncontrollably down a mountain on two narrow planks has never seemed attractive; but then he kept very clear of slides created by the brave kids in his ice-bound infant school playground, A true wimp!<\/p><\/div>\n Split Park?<\/p><\/div>\n And curvy rails as well!<\/p>\n And we would all want to do this, surely?<\/p>\n
Ski lifts are public transport, after all!<\/div>\n