Jon WorthMar 11

Welcome to today's thread - #CrossBorderRail 2026 Tour Day 12 - 11 Mar - Ljubljana - Koper - Mlini - Koper - Trieste

New borders:
Secovlje 🇸🇮 - Savudrija 🇭🇷
Muggia 🇮🇹 - Spodnje Škofije 🇸🇮

Borders already crossed:
None

It’s quicker to take the bus to get to the coast of Slovenia, but that’s never my choice! So the train it is, and then two former Perenzana narrow gauge lines – one to Croatia, the other to Italy, and then to Trieste to end the day.

Today's routes mapped:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2026-spring-tour_1361108#10/45.762254/14.054260

Show threadJon WorthMar 11

#CrossBorderRail 2026 Spring Tour Train 36 of 86
IC 503
09:10 Ljubljana - Koper 11:40
SŽ

Train type: Stadler EMU, 3 double deck carriages
⚡️ (3kV dc)
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (step free if station allows)
🛜: ⛔ (it's installed but I can't get it to work - it's either broken or too slow to be useable)
🍽️: ⛔
🧳: 🙂 (decent multi use areas, OK for large bags)️
🧽: 🙂
Interrail: 🙂 (accepted)

Show threadJon WorthMar 11

IC 503
09:10 Ljubljana - Koper 11:40

Distance: 151.8km
Average speed: 61km/h

8 stops:
Borovnica
Logatec
Rakek
Postojna
Pivka
Divaca
Hrpelje-Kozina
Koper

This train, mapped: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2026-spring-tour_1361108#10/45.777581/14.124298

#CrossBorderRail

#CrossBorderRail 2026 Spring Tour

Tours in Spring 2026. 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.

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Show threadJon WorthMar 11

Digitisation of Slovenian railways

Chatting with a friend this morning in Ljubljana: "I think you can book online, but I never tried it"

I try it

Not the most logical interface, but it works, and it emails me a PDF with a QR code on it

I show this to the train manager, who scans it, and... prints me out a paper with the QR code on it!

What?

Why? 🤷‍♂️

Show thread210561 ✨ [Q]Mar 11
@jon is it the same barcode content? the Slovenians have both a ticket and a ticket pick-up barcode format for reasons beyond me (but maybe @anze knows)
Show threadCraftByte
@q @jon I think its something to do with there being no revocation list. App tickets don’t do this since they can be remotely revoked (and we don’t know what Zugli is), but paper do a remote lookup.
Mar 11 at 9:14amWeb
Show thread210561 ✨ [Q]Mar 11
@anze @jon we would, of course, know nothing about how badly not having a revocation list can go