Braid in trains :lesbian_uz: - solidarity with :streik:

A bowl of ramen and a drink on the table of a small Chinese restaurant.

A beautiful, modern railway station with palm trees.

Two coupled Fuxing Hao trains in LCR livery after arriving at a station.

A blue CRRC electric locomotive hauling a cargo train on the opposite track.

After the border check in 🇱🇦 Vientianne Khamsavath railway station took 2 hours, I sadly missed my :lcr: train to 🇨🇳 Kunming - the last one of the day. Without train timetable, internet or language knowledge I decided to at least travel as far as still possible […]

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Definitely not on my bucket list for today : I won an overnight stay in 🇱🇦 Boten, the special economic zone right at the border to 🇨🇳 China.

#FOSSRail #CrossBorderRail

🇱🇦 Laos, or as I call it : Difficult border crossing 🙃.

Not that anything could ever go wrong here but it's slow, chaotic and random. Always plan two hours of buffer. Train arrival at 9 a.m. and connecting train at 11.30 a.m. can end up in a speed run.

#FOSSRail #CrossBorderRail #Laos

The feminine urge to submit :srt: SRT compositions to vagonweb 🥺🥺🥺 ...

A blue, orange and silver train standing at a platform with open doors. A departure display shows the next departures.

Passengers are boarding the train. The pillars of the station roof are decorated with plants.

Flat front of an SRT DMU entering the station next to the sleeper train on the other track.

Meanwhile an adorable :srt: type NFK DMU for the :srt: Express 76 arrived and suddenly the station was empty.

#FOSSRail

Sight on the end of a train parking at a long railway station platform. Behind the train, the sun is rising and some clouds cover the sky.

Outside of the railway station. Some scooters parking on a square with a huge Thai flag displayed. On the other side of the road, there's an old railway wagon displayed in a small museum-ish style.

Full length of my SRT sleeper, now one platform further. Sun is rising and a cute diesel locomotive is coupled to the very end of the train.

Good morning Fedi 🌄 !

I had an excellent night and my :srt: sleeper arrived in 🇹🇭 Nong Khai on time.

Despite amenities on the train, I was too sleepy and my bed was too cuddly to motivate myself to have a shower before arriving.

The morning arrival of the :srt […]

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Rosåhaj leaning on the table of a night train compartment.

A luxury and modern sleeper compartment with two berths.

A long train composed of modern carriages standing at a platform. Little metal bridges fill the gap between the doors and the platform.

My first train : The comfortable :srt: Special Express 25 will bring me over night to 🇹🇭 Nong Khai, the border town of 🇱🇦 Vientianne.

The train consists of 13 carriages, sleeper wagons of different classes and a @diningcar .

While there is a direct :srt: train […]

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A beautiful building with a huge arch spanning over a main hall framed by two decorative towers. The building is illuminated and decorated with Thai flags. In front of the building, there is a little park with plants partially covering the sight.

Railway tracks ending in little plant beds with a bench. A sign identifies the railway station as Bangkok. Historic trains on the tracks behind.

Narrow platforms and a commuter train in a huge railway station.

A huge entrance hall of a railway station. The floor is made of some mosaic and the windows have pastel colors. A few people are waiting on benches.

Today, my railway journey from 🇹🇭 Bangkok back to 🇫🇷 Alsace finally begins.

Marking the start of my trip, I visited the Hua Lamphong railway station. The beautiful building with a huge departure hall, flowers and fountains is sadly only served by :srt: commuter […]

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Today it's getting serious again : In a couple of hours I'll be leaving 🇹🇭 #Bangkok by :srt: night train to start my 15 days journey bringing me back to 🇫🇷 #Alsace traveling 100 % by train 🚂.

🚂🇹🇭🇱🇦🇨🇳🇷🇺🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹🇵🇱🇨🇿🇦🇹🇩🇪🇱🇮🇨🇭🇫🇷

#FOSSRail #CrossBorderRail #TeamNightTrain

@jon There's a daily Elektryzhka between Dilove and Kolomtyia !

TIL : The longest leg on the Ukrainian railway network is the train pair 39/40 from Solotvyno to Zaporizhzhia with a travel time of 26h30.

#TeamNightTrain

@jon Do you know what happened to the restoration of the Rakhiv - Valea Viseului railway line that was celebrated with a :uz: DPKr-3 train running to Romania in 2022 ? Since then we haven't heard of any news about the planned #CrossBorderRail link across the Carphatics.

Maybe I just spent the entire day doing a weird thing, buuuut :

I wrote detailed API documentation on most of the public APIs of the :uz: Ukrzaliznytsia online timetable along with a detailed implementation guide to actually write down the code I for gathering real schedule data from Ukraine […]

* yells at proprietary APIs and broken HAFAS

When European legislation for public transport schedule data ?!?!?

It can't be state of 2026 that I need to check schedules of 5 different companies because they refuse to share the public information of their timetables in a machine-readible format […]

Updated the zug.network :elron: Elron emoji to the post-2018 logo, you can find the old one at :elron_old: "elron_old".

@transitous I'm wondering about the GTFS feed used for ELRON. According to your sources page, you make use of a 3rd party GTFS file which contains the bug above. ELRON seems to provide the correct GTFS data via peatus.ee. Have people already tried using that data from the primary source at the […]

Screenshot of DB Navigator. A train schedule from Narva (9:49) to Tapa (11:22).

Screenshot of DB Navigator. A train schedule from Tapa (11:21) to Valga (13:58).

Screenshot of the Elron website showing the first train from Narva to Tapa. Unlike at DB, the arrival time in Tapa is 11:17, so five minutes earlier.

Good : :elron: Elron finally submits their schedule data of domestic trains to european schedule data available in DB Navigator or Rail Planner.
Bad : They're not submitting arrival times but only departure times so that all the perfectly aligned transfers in […]

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Screenshot of the Elron website with a box saying "Would you like to rent a train?" as a commercial offer for companies and huge travel groups.

:elron: Can I haz 🥺👉👈 ?

@jon Oh, didn't kbow. They're by far one of my favorite locos but mostly because :cfr: have amazing liveries.

@jon Oh, a cute phaenix loco. Didn't know they run in Russian Serbia as well.

TIL : The :pkpic: mobile app finally supports buying seasonal ticket and rail pass reservations. I thought that was only possible on their website.

#Interrail #CrossBorderRail

@tops I'm sure I'll be able to find a vessle.

@tops Oh, I'm also considering the same route for Tram WM. Let's connect on our routing 👀 ...

RE: https://zug.network/@lewd/116182099151725081

Did you ever wonder how much it is to travel around the globe from Europe to Asia ? Are you curious how prices vary by country when traveling first, second or saver class ?

I made a long post explaining how much it is to travel my #FOSSRail trip […]

[Good to read long post, money, emissions and long distance travels]

Are you wondering how much it is to travel from Thailand to France by train ?

Okay, here we are. Let's first check the flights for reference. I'm traveling first and deluxe class with single compartments only, that's […]

@ZERreisen OMG, ich muss auf meinem Rueckweg in den Laden. Wo ist der ?

@vorortanleiter (Checked OeBB, CD and PKPIC, all the same result.)

@vorortanleiter Do you know why the Chopin cannot be bough on March 26th ? I doubt it's booked up, is it ?

[train tickets, money]

Now spent 55,000 RUB on my train tickets back home. Yes, that's a lot. But it's mostly first class, with comfy sleeper spaces and a flight ticket from China to Estonia won't be less than 600 EUR neither.

Wait a second, the :rzd: 009Н from Volodyvostok to Moskva carries SL carriages again ? I thought SL vanished away in Siberia years ago and only Kupe carriages left 👀 ?

That's interesting, in that case I might take the 009Н directly from Irkutsk to Moskva rather than changing in Ekaterinburg to […]