My minigolfing of regional rail branding across Europe continues, and now we show train names/brands across the Netherlands on Railfinder! And as a bonus we now also show line numbers where we have that data.

Big thanks to @partim for explaining the systems-within-systems for how NL regional rail is organised & marketed. Saved quite some research!

If you see any train branding/names/lines that’s off (in NL or elsewhere), I always want to hear that feedback for my next minigolfing session.

@stefanlindbohm @partim I see the cross-border Koleje Dolnośląskie trains to Lichkov are still listed as Leo Express ;P
Of course, you're probably not focusing on Poland yet

@HaTetsu Hanggg onnnn, is that wrong? I haven’t done anything here – that’s how they get sent to us (we just add the Leo Express logo).

Are you saying they are not in fact operated by Leo Express or that it would be more appropriate to use some generic KD branding for them? (What would that branding be?)

@stefanlindbohm They are all operated by KD and Leo Express is mostly their partner for Czechia compliance, but the issue is slightly confounded by the fact that Leo does sell tickets for those trains all the way to Wrocław. But you wouldn't be able to tell by looking at the train or any passenger info on the Polish side (which is pretty much the whole route of the train)
@stefanlindbohm KD train branding is pretty generic, though it depends on what source you're looking at. In PKP PLK timetables they use the generic Os (Osobowy) and OsP (Osobowy Przyspieszony) categories, the latter generally also carry some name starting with "KD Sprinter", which can probably be used as the brand in those cases. In their own timetables and GTFS, they use line numbers starting with D and assigned by route, but again, those aren't entered into PLK systems, so station announcements don't include them

@stefanlindbohm That reminds me, I haven't put up the English version of a little thing a made a couple months ago (alt text and detailed description in Polish at https://mastodon.com.pl/@HaTetsu/115860768353886923)

It's a map of Polish voivodeships by how regional rail line numbers are shown to passengers, which you can see is quite uneven

(It's modified from https://
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:POL_location_map.svg byHiuppo, licensed CC-BY-SA 3.0)