Welcome to today's thread - 2025 #CrossBorderRail Finale Day 16 - 2 July - Praha - České Budějovice - Linz Hbf - St Anton am Arlberg
Today's new borders:
Summerau 🇦🇹 - Horní Dvorište 🇨🇿
Borders map, inc. borders re-crossed:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-all-the-borders_935041#13/48.5888/14.4260
Today's trains on the routes map:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2025-finale_1163738#8/48.621/12.501
Here's today's #CrossBorderRail music track
Funkasin street band
České Budějovice Buskers fest
This is just suitably funny, and you can see the crowd is having a laugh in the video!
However... Ding-ding-dong-dinnnng!
As Praha Hlavní nádraží is right next to where I am staying 😀
Here's where I am going later https://openrailwaymap.org/?style=maxspeed&lat=48.432389796908886&lon=14.522552490234375&zoom=10
Look at the low speeds! But you cannot do much better given how curvy the line is!
And here's today's intro video
I am off to give a speech. More later on the thread!
Agh 😡
Listening to a presentation from the public transport National Access Point of Slovenia here in Prague
https://simo.si is a nice tool, but trains that *start in Slovenia* and cross the border... cannot be found
FFS
I ask the speaker why I cannot find Spielfeld Strass in his tool (the first station in Austria served by Slovenian trains)
We cannot get the data on that from SŽ Potniški promet he says 😡
It's a state enterprise not giving data to a state National Access Point
This is *maddening*
The contrast between European Cyclists' Federation event in Gdanśk and this event in Praha is so stark
To perhaps a too extreme extent, the ECF people *are* cyclists, and work on cycling - they're users, they're intrinsically motivated
None of these people from ministries or running National Access Points seem intrinsically motivated, there is no spark, no energy at all here
#CrossBorderRail Finale Train 65 of 158
IC 535
12:20 Praha hl. n. - České Budějovice 13:59
ČD
Train type: Škoda 380 locomotive, 5 carriages
⚡️ (3kV dc, 25kV ac)
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (lift on board)
🛜: ✅
🍽️: ✅
🧳: 🙂 (large racks)
🧽: 🙂
🎫 Interrail: 🙂 (accepted)
It gets a top score!
IC 535
12:20 Praha hl. n. - České Budějovice 13:59
Distance: 164.2km
Average speed: 100km/h
2 stops:
Tabor
České Budějovice
This train, mapped: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2025-finale_1163738#9/49.5145/14.5940
The final big #CrossBorderRail tour - to the eastern borders of the EU, and missing intra-EU borders. In June-July 2025. Each day of the project is a Layer in the map - these should be displayed by default, or if not click the three layered diamonds icon "Open browser" to the left side of the map. The icons are all for borders, roughly coloured to differentiate the borders. A cross through a track means NO TRAINS CAN RUN. A cross through trains but not track means TRAINS CAN RUN BUT NO PASSENGER TRAINS. And TRAIN AND TRACK (no crosses) means there is a passenger service.
Ah and it wasn't enough
Arrived in České Budějovice +10, and the connecting train to Linz did not wait 5 minutes (which it would have been allowed to do, as per the rules)
So I am stuck for 2 hours
Again 😡
And yes, it was a police intervention (beyond ČD's control)
And yes, there were probably more people on the train that needed it to depart on time, rather than waiting for me
But it's annoying nevertheless
Now then, how do I re-plan to still get to St Anton am Arlberg tonight...? 🤔
So there's a sort of Taktfahrplan - trains every 2 hours
So if the 16:05 from České Budějovice runs on time I will be OK to get a Railjet 2 hours later than the planned one from Linz, and I reserved one of the last 3 seats available on it...
At least this isn't France
Ah, well, when rail messes up, make the best of it!
At 15:05 there's a train to Rybnik, the border station, arriving 15:58
And I would need to depart at 16:50 from Rybnik to Linz, or 17:07 from Summerau (first Austrian station)
I could even cycle across the border, although in these temperatures... 🤔 We'll see
And this Škoda EMU will take me to the border
No idea about the data, this wasn’t planned! 😀
Just had to get the train manager (!) to turn down music blaring out of her mobile (she’s sat in the same part of the train as me)
Come on! Shouldn’t train staff at least set an example on this?
🤯
I don’t know when I’ll be at Summerau 🇦🇹 - Horní Dvorište 🇨🇿 again. So let’s make the best of it
Sun cream applied. Light coloured t-shirt on. I’ll bike across the border and get the train again in Summerau
@jon You prob have to enter Šentilj. It's a border with a history of conflict ...
Fun fact from Dublin, in my family ppl refused to use the new names of the railway stations & continued calling them Amiens St, Kingsbridge and Westland Row instead of Connolly, Heuston and Pearse ...
@jon And then scroll up, look at the line between Bystřice and Veselí and see how fast it is! And then switch to the Infrastructure view, zoom in, and witness how they accomplished it (here's an alternative map that may show it better or worse: https://www.atlaskolejowy.net/e-mapa/cz/)
In a word: ruthless
@Wolfi It's my *JOB* 🤷♂️
I am researching border railways. How else am I going to get between these borders?
Jon Worth
dave cykl
Roland Sivonen
Enola Knezevic
Walter van Holst
Simon Brooke
Pepijn
Tor Lillqvist
波鉄 (Hatetsu)
SaareMartha
Twobiscuits🚴♂️ 
orangerkater
codl
Cécile Hébert
Wolfi