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Today we’re quietly (and finally!) opening up Railfinder to the public! This is our beta version and - hopefully - the first step towards that one booking site for trains across Europe that we all dream of.

Lots of work has gone into this and equally lots still to do before reach that vision, but if you’d like to try what we’ve built you can now just go to https://www.railfinder.eu and have a go!

Any and all feedback more than welcome 🙏

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Stefan Lindbohm 5d ago

And for the nerds among us, we have a page on all the details that went into this - including our initial ticket coverage & how the search works: https://www.railfinder.eu/how-it-works

Ask me anything!

How Railfinder works

Railfinder

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Stefan Lindbohm 5d ago

I should also add that we’re actively working on some technical issues that happen a bit more often than we’d like. Hopefully we’ll catch and fix the more common of the errors in the coming days - this is one of the reasons we start as a beta and wait a bit before launching too widely 🤫

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Alex Steenbreker 4d ago

@stefanlindbohm great website, nice work, I am adding this to my favourites! Already noticed one thingy: when untapping the "short transfers" button, nothing changes and it still shows travel options with 3m transfers 🏃‍♀️‍➡️

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Alex Steenbreker 4d ago

@stefanlindbohm maybe because it doesn't have the short transfer label I do see with other routes, which do disappear when the button is untapped.

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Stefan Lindbohm

@alexsteenbreker Indeed. We go by min allowed for regional trains usually, but maybe we should add a little margin to RE in the Netherlands?

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Alex Steenbreker 4d ago

@stefanlindbohm oof, matter of choice really... maybe if the criteria are clear or you can set it yourself, it will not lead to any confusion. For some stations / people / transfers 3 mins is too little.