Stefan LindbohmJun 23, 2025

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 🙏

Show threadStefan LindbohmJun 23, 2025

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
Show threadLuke_VaderJun 25, 2025
@stefanlindbohm
Absolutely awesome.
My apologies if you already answered this, the thread has become very long.
Why create your own routefinder, instead of taking Transitous/MOTIS and extending it according for your needs? Not re-inventing the wheel and all that.
Show threadStefan Lindbohm

@Luke_Vader Thank you! No worries, this wasn’t specifically asked.

We built our own because our criteria and optimisations are very different to ensble us doing full day searches with massive (multi-hour) detours in the name of a number of comfort related criteria. Plus we tightly integrate the display with the rest of our app. There’s a lot of complexity in other planners we don’t use and vice versa.

Was it a 100% correct decision? 🤷🏻‍♂️ But that’s why :)

Jun 25, 2025 at 9:16pmIvory for iOS
Show threadLuke_VaderJun 26, 2025
@stefanlindbohm
Fair enough.
Are you planning on making it accessible to developers? and how?
Would a developer be able to use your route finder? Be able to find prices for specific trains or routes? Ability to purchase from you?
Show threadStefan LindbohmJun 26, 2025
@Luke_Vader I’ll have to say we don’t know (how) yet. First priority is to build a site that delivers a good experience for travelers that people actually want to use. It would be great to open up use to developers to some extent in the future to reach further than our own channels and generally for openness. We’ll have to get back on details once we get there!