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!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_G1tqHLZLk

However... Ding-ding-dong-dinnnng!

As Praha Hlavní nádraží is right next to where I am staying 😀

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD3QlR98--A

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!

https://peertube.netzbegruenung.de/w/koQ6oAX28DT5RBPKhArp6A

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

#CrossBorderRail

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

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 😡

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

Right then

Ready for some Horní cycling!

Horní Dvorište 🇨🇿 - Summerau 🇦🇹

It’s hot today

So it’s an alcohol free #BeerOnTrains

That’s a little thing to tie onto a kid’s pram to stop it rolling off the platform!

And the station is called Beetle Market (roughly)

České Budějovice - Linz is great and annoying in equal measure

Great because it’s scenic out of the window, and given it’s single track the service is pretty good, inc cross border

Annoying because it’s damned slow and winding, not yet upgraded, while new roads have been built here