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AR22 Transportation
apskip:
The train schedulles going up to Jungfraujoch make it clear which trains teams would have been on:
dep. Grindelwald 0947
arr. Kleine Scheidegg 1017
dep. Kleine Scheidegg 1100
arr. Jungfraujoch 1152
I have been trying to track down a schedule for stops and pickups at the Eigerwand "flag stop". I did not get off there when I visited but remember it as not a real station, just a point where passengers got off or on to view the Gletschsglacier. Here are the train schedules for afternoon from Jungfraujoch down to Grindelwald Grund station:
depart Jungfraujoch arrive Kleine Scheidegg depart Kleine Scheidegg arrive Grindelwald Grund
1200 1250 1303 1335
1230 1320 1333 1405
1300 1350 1403 1435
1330 1420 1433 1505
1400 1450 1503 1535
1430 1520 1533 1605
1500 1550 1603 1635
1530 1620 1633 1705
So all teams must have gotten on the first or second of these at Jungfraujoch and exited at Eigerwand minutes later. 4 teams would have reboarded the next train and arrived Grindelwald Grund. Joey/Meghan and Churck/Wynona would have been on the following train down.
When I look at the sunset for Grindelwald Nov. 29, 2011 (which I have to estimate based on a 7 minute offset from Geneva) it was at 445pm.
DrRox:
Swiss Railroads changed their schedules about once a year in December. So the scedules were changed after TAR used the railroads in Swizterland. The earliest train leaving Grindelwald is about 6:00 am.
The telecast showed teams going to Basel from Interlaken and then from Basel to Munich.This really doesnt make much sense. That makes it an ~8 hour trip to Munich. Most of the train connections go through Mannheim, Germany. It takes about 3 hours to ride the train from Mannheim to Munich. But Mannheim is only about 30 minutes from the Frankfurt airport by train.
I need to rewatch the program and see where Phil is....I dont remember him in Dresden.
apskip:
What the telecast for leg 9 showed on transportation makes perfect sense, as it was multi-modal. Here is what teams did:
Left Grindelwald on the 526am train
arrived Interlaken Ost about 6am
departed Interlaken Ost with min. layover
arrive Basel 734am
switched to fly to Munich IQ2393 BSL MUC 0920 1035
connect in Munich to fly to Dresden CL2104 MUC DRS 1120 1223
So teams would take taxis to the Ministry of Finance and reach their FORD FOCUS cars about 1pm.
100 miles Dresden to Berlin means arrival there around 3pm.
Editor's note - an alternate approach has been suggested based on the pit stop release really being in Interlaken. The train schedule for an early train from Interlaken West to Basel was:
depart Interlaken West 0526am
arrive Basel 0729am
That is only a slight difference in Basel arrival time and the flight schedule would remain the same.
apskip:
Only flights connecting at Amsterdam or London-Heathrow make sense to me. I have all the flight schedules below.
Here are the possible flights on Dec. 3 from Berlin-Tegel to Amsterdam (TXL AMS):
KL1818 0555 0718
WA1822 1006 1148
KL1824 1413 1535
KL1826 1329 1546
Here are the flights on Dec. 3 from Berlin-Tegel to London Heathrow (TXL LHR):
BA981 0709 0802
LH3372 0739 0829
BA993 1225 1343
LH3374 1243 1344
BA983 1405 1511
BA985 1637 1740
LH3376 1751 1857
BA987 1940 2039
Possible connections for AMS EDI are:
WA1277 0758 0821
KL1879 1025 1137
U2 6922 1307 1336
WA1887 1220 1250
KL1285 1622 1640
KL1283 2127 2159
U2 6924 2144 2203
Possible connections for LHR EDI are:
BA1432 0638 0809
BA1434 0812 0929
BA1442 1050 1224
BA1444 1246 1408
BA1448 1434 1556
BA1446 1510 1632
BA1452 1550 1718
BA1454 1744 1907
BA1458 1834 1950
BA1456 1924 2041
BA1464 2158 2308
The much heavier schedules make Heathrow a much more probable connecting point than Amsterdam.
David:
What time did the sun set in Berlin by those dates? I think it was between Max & Katie's arrival to the Brandenburg Gate and the Joey & Meghan one, I would say later than 3 PM, don't know. Think of all the driving in the city center of Berlin.
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