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Before 2022, I once noticed that the Deutsche Bahn app for German trains let me put Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, as destination. The app is good at fi

by hulium 1y ago

Before 2022, I once noticed that the Deutsche Bahn app for German trains let me put Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, as destination. The app is good at finding international connections, but it only shows stations that are actually reachable from Germany. After some research, I found it was indeed possible to find a connection from Europe to Pyongyang via Vladivostok once per month. Not anymore though, they removed the Russian train network from their system.

canjobear 1y ago
There’s a blog post series from a guy who did this. https://vienna-pyongyang.blogspot.com/2008/04/how-everything-began.html https://vienna-pyongyang.blogspot.com/2008/04/how-everything...
- jonah 1y ago
  I read this blog back in the day. Fascinating saga.
stop_nazi 1y ago
This opportunity was available before the covid. Now Poland has closed the railway connection with Belarus
netsharc 1y ago
Deutsche Bahn lets you enter stations outside of Germany, e.g. here Liverpool Lime Street to London St. Pancras: https://www.bahn.de/buchung/fahrplan/suche#sts=true&so=Liverpool%20Lime%20Street&zo=London%20Blackfriars&kl=2&r=13:16:KLASSENLOS:1&soid=A%3D1%40O%3DLiverpool%20Lime%20Street%40X%3D-2977919%40Y%3D53407665%40U%3D80%40L%3D7001372%40B%3D1%40p%3D1746646786%40i%3DU%C3%97007022460%40&zoid=A%3D1%40O%3DLondon%20Blackfriars%40X%3D-103286%40Y%3D51511220%40U%3D80%40L%3D7001310%40B%3D1%40p%3D1742845592%40i%3DU%C3%97007051120%40&sot=ST&zot=ST&soei=7001372&zoei=7001310&hd=2025-05-17T22:46:07&hza=D&hz=%5B%5D&ar=false&s=true&d=false&vm=00,01,02,03,04,05,06,07,08,09&fm=false&bp=false&dlt=false&dltv=false https://www.bahn.de/buchung/fahrplan/suche#sts=true&so=Liver...
- Tarsul 1y ago
  Problem with their website is that it appears that your journey is possible only to then be disappointed at the last step of the check-out. Happens way too often and especially for international travel. Btw. I nearly traveled from Budapest to Hamburg in a single train but alas as written above I had to put in a stop in Munich just so that I could finish my order (both routes were roughly 14hours which I found quite manageable).

by hulium 1y ago

canjobear 1y ago

There’s a blog post series from a guy who did this. https://vienna-pyongyang.blogspot.com/2008/04/how-everything-began.html https://vienna-pyongyang.blogspot.com/2008/04/how-everything...

jonah 1y ago
I read this blog back in the day. Fascinating saga.

stop_nazi 1y ago

This opportunity was available before the covid. Now Poland has closed the railway connection with Belarus

netsharc 1y ago

Deutsche Bahn lets you enter stations outside of Germany, e.g. here Liverpool Lime Street to London St. Pancras: https://www.bahn.de/buchung/fahrplan/suche#sts=true&so=Liverpool%20Lime%20Street&zo=London%20Blackfriars&kl=2&r=13:16:KLASSENLOS:1&soid=A%3D1%40O%3DLiverpool%20Lime%20Street%40X%3D-2977919%40Y%3D53407665%40U%3D80%40L%3D7001372%40B%3D1%40p%3D1746646786%40i%3DU%C3%97007022460%40&zoid=A%3D1%40O%3DLondon%20Blackfriars%40X%3D-103286%40Y%3D51511220%40U%3D80%40L%3D7001310%40B%3D1%40p%3D1742845592%40i%3DU%C3%97007051120%40&sot=ST&zot=ST&soei=7001372&zoei=7001310&hd=2025-05-17T22:46:07&hza=D&hz=%5B%5D&ar=false&s=true&d=false&vm=00,01,02,03,04,05,06,07,08,09&fm=false&bp=false&dlt=false&dltv=false https://www.bahn.de/buchung/fahrplan/suche#sts=true&so=Liver...

Tarsul 1y ago
Problem with their website is that it appears that your journey is possible only to then be disappointed at the last step of the check-out. Happens way too often and especially for international travel. Btw. I nearly traveled from Budapest to Hamburg in a single train but alas as written above I had to put in a stop in Munich just so that I could finish my order (both routes were roughly 14hours which I found quite manageable).