Mastodawn

2 weeks ago, girlfriend and me took a #nighttrain from Berlin Südkreuz to Budapest (EN 40457). On paper a 12 hour ride (20:25 - 08:29), in reality we arrived after 10 in the morning, since the train just stood around in Bratislava for at least an hour ("something with the rails" according to the conductor) and we started out with a >30minutes delay from Berlin.

I requested compensation through the #ÖBB -bot (which worked very well actually) and got a reply later on: denied, system says no, you arrived with less than an hour of delay.

What I noticed during our ride, is that somewhere after Břeclav (Czechia), our train state in the DB app stopped updating and it didn't take our Bratislava-delay into account anymore.

#crossBorderRail

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Cycling on Rails 3d ago

@quin_antarctic I also often notice the same thing where delays are not properly tracked across borders. Train operators generally only see delay within their "home" country but default to "on time" once abroad.

In my opinion, this is why the upcoming EU regulation on passenger rights should include mandatory tracking of delays across Europe in an open data manner. There cannot be effective compensation if operators pretend delays don't happen. cc @erpu @jon @stefanlindbohm @bovine3dom

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Will Deakin 3d ago

@cycling_on_rails @quin_antarctic @erpu @jon @stefanlindbohm @bovine3dom
as I understand it, the February 2026 publication of Telematics TSI does not mandate the tracking of delay information, but rather the open publication of all train service tracking and timetable data.
Whether a train service is delayed, or heavens forfend, on-time, is the left as an exercise for the reader.
I also note that, although this is now in law, there is still an implementation period which has yet to elapse.

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Oliver Blanthorn

@wnd December 2028 iirc?

As far as I know people (infrastructure, operators, ticket sellers) will be obliged to use the data

@cycling_on_rails @quin_antarctic @erpu @jon @stefanlindbohm

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Will Deakin 3d ago

@bovine3dom @cycling_on_rails @quin_antarctic @erpu @jon @stefanlindbohm there is a shouting match* about that whether that is fair and what happens if I don't hit that date? But yes, that sounds about right.

* le plus fort dans une langue romane populaire du jour...

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Oliver Blanthorn 3d ago

@wnd after three years of non-compliance the commission will issue an opinion saying that said parties should consider working towards starting implementation of the regulations

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Will Deakin 3d ago

@bovine3dom @cycling_on_rails @quin_antarctic @erpu @jon @stefanlindbohm as someone who does this stuff as a job, we mostly do today. The difference is that there is now a presumption is this data is made open and publicly available.