Mastodawn

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

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Jon Worth Mar 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)

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Jon Worth Mar 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

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#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.

uMap

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Jon Worth Mar 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? 🤷‍♂️

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Jon Worth Mar 11

Via @mcSlibinas there is one of the sort of motorised draisines I have on the cover picture for today's thread - for sale. Restored. For €8000! https://www.carandclassic.com/make-an-offer/1960-fiat-500-draisina-motocarrello-nr-2550-nrM9mg

1960 Fiat 500 Draisina 'Motocarrello' Nr. 25/50 | Car & C...

Make an offer on this Fiat 500 currently up for offer via Car & Classic Auctions

Car & Classic

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Jon Worth Mar 11

Just downloaded some of my photos from yesterday, these approaching and at Zidani Most

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Jon Worth Mar 11

My timing to come to Koper this week was not bad 🙂

https://www.railfreight.com/infrastructure/2026/03/03/divaca-koper-new-railway-to-open-for-tests-next-week/?gdpr=accept

I am told it might even be today the first test train runs on the new tunnel line

Although I am unlikely to be able to see anything I think...

Koper 🇸🇮

Interrail at Koper 🙂

First: two buses to the border to Croatia

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Jon Worth Mar 11

The buses work. But they’re annoying. I might cycle the whole way from Croatia to Trieste instead 🙂

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Jon Worth Mar 11

This one they covered in ads so you can’t see out 😡

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ednl 🇪🇺Mar 11

@jon Don't they work like one-way mirrors? (I.e. they're semi-transparent and looking from dark interior to bright exterior kinda works.) Hopefully they do and once you're in you can still look out.

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Michael Kohne

@ednl @jon The ones I've seen before are a sort of mesh - when you are close to it (inside) you can see through, but from any distance, you see the image. Can't tell if that's what is going on here or not, but it's a thing that can work.