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Stefan Lindbohm @stefanlindbohm.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17h

Thanks #OpenTransport2026 for an amazing week. Learned and laughed a lot. See and talk to you all soon! Now it’s time for me to fall asleep on this Nightjet new generation built in 2020-something hauled by a Re 420 built in 1974. Old meets new in one of the best ways possible surely.

SBB Re 420 hauling a Nightjet new generation coach set

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Stefan Lindbohm @stefanlindbohm.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

I threw an in the moment comment on the Youtube video for the stupid DHH keynote at Rails World and am now discovering my own quote has done rounds in the Rails community. It even got memes made! A bit odd bumping into your own words in multiple places in a community I’ve never had any […]

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Stefan Lindbohm @stefanlindbohm.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Having some fun this weekend in Central Switzerland riding old mountain trains and hiking. Yesterday we took the Schynige Platte-Bahn hauled by a He 2/2 loco which must have been one of the earliest electric mountain railways? Details welcome if anyone knows! […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Front sideview of a He 2/2 loco with traction on a cogwheel

End view of Schynige Platte-Bahn carriage with mountains in the Jungfrau area in the background.

Hiking trail climbing a ridge with clouds right behind the mountain side.

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Oliver Blanthorn @bovine3dom.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

RE: masto.ai/@bovine3dom/11736073878133… i have only had a mastodon account for three years so i don't know how it works. but i think you usually can't see replies deep in threads on your main feed? anyway i made a userscript github.com/bovine3dom/railfinder_ha… for the […]

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Stefan Lindbohm @stefanlindbohm.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

I’m going through exactly what is proposed to change in the Passenger Package and wanted a way to easier see things word by word, so I did what any programmer would do and put it in source control to view it as a code diff 🤷🏻‍♂️ If you’re used to reading code diffs and are interested in […]

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Stefan Lindbohm @stefanlindbohm.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

When in Köln! Found the spot where apparently loads of people train spot, judging by the desire path leading to nowhere but a sight over the tracks. Before we left there’s another person showing up to ask as to take a photo of her with the trains behind. Good times 🤓

Tracks leading into Köln Hbf. One regional train departing and one ICE arriving.

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Stefan Lindbohm @stefanlindbohm.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

I’m heading on a trip south and we’re off to a very Trafikverket kind of start already. Late announced speed restrictions on our way to Sundsvall means we’re in the hands of operations centre decisions to make our connection to Stockholm because nobody thought it was important enough to adjust […]

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Stefan Lindbohm @stefanlindbohm.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

”Explore Roman Roads” You know what? Don’t mind if I do It’s kinda like OpenRailwayMap 150 AD edition 😅 itiner-e.org/?app_name=Dagens+Nyhet…

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Stefan Lindbohm @stefanlindbohm.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

Quote @jon about Swedish night train rolling stock: ”these carriages were built in 1991 and 1992, so not the most modern” My friend, these are 30 years newer than the majority of currently running night train stock in Sweden :D

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Stefan Lindbohm @stefanlindbohm.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Looks like we’ll soon have a government that actually likes trains in Sweden. We just might get a restart on the project of direly needed new mainlines between Stockholm - Gothenburg and Stockholm - Malmö (both via Jönköping). Election results are not final yet but look likely to stay. The […]

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Stefan Lindbohm @stefanlindbohm.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Do we have someone with French knowledge in the #bahnbubble (#bulleferroviare?) who can explain the reasoning/methods that SNCF Connect uses to propose a travel leg by car in their planner? Is this something they promote somehow? What is an actual intended […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Journey result from SNCF Connect showing a transfer between Marseille Saint-Charles to Marseille Blancarde by car

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Stefan Lindbohm @stefanlindbohm.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

First time in 2 decades we see Trondheim on this departure board! And first time ever an electrified passenger train runs direct on this route from Jämtland to Trøndelag. I’m boarding for some (mini) #crossborderrail history 🙌 (it is only a trial run - […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Departure board in Duved (Sweden) showing the next departure for ”Storlien Trondheim”

Arriving Snälltåget train at Duved station

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Stefan Lindbohm @stefanlindbohm.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

RE: ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUComm… I would like to correct this slightly because Railfinder already sells Brussels-Vienna-Budapest in a single search and single booking 🤓, BUT the Passenger Package will be a great upgrade to passengers and also support us […]

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Stefan Lindbohm @stefanlindbohm.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

@bovine3dom Random thought. Do you have enough data to produce visualisations of train service frequency over population density on a regional/hex level? On one hand it obviously does not matter to an individual that there’s a good reason for an impractically low frequency, but on the other […]

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Stefan Lindbohm @stefanlindbohm.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

Snälltåget will run a test run Malmö - Trondheim direct and back on September 5-6! I believe this will be the very first passenger train to run across the border on electricity? Historic event! I will try to be on this train as I live a few stops before the border on the Swedish side, if I can […]

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Stefan Lindbohm @stefanlindbohm.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

I’ve booked my trip to the Open Transport Community Conference in Bern Oct 6-9! Who else is going? My main topic will probably be timetable data and related tooling. As mentioned on here before, I have some project ideas. (I’ll also happily talk about Railfinder, rail ticketing, etc but I’m […]

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Stefan Lindbohm @stefanlindbohm.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

Vacation at home part 1 was playing video games for a few days. Part 2 is orienteering and picking cloudberries on the mountain. Picture 2 shows Sweden’s biggest waterfall Tännforsen in the distance. I love living here despite being 8 hours of travel from civilisation 😅

Me holding an orienteering map and a cloudberry in front of a view overlooking loads of forest.

View from a mountain overlooking some mountains in the horizon. Sweden’s biggest waterfall Tännforsen is seen in front of the mountains.

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Stefan Lindbohm @stefanlindbohm.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

Jointed track and speed indicator clicking ASMR day We’re traveling ~5 hours through the Swedish inland where villages are far apart and 1000 inhabitants is a big place. Inlandsbanan was built to connect these places, so darned it we’re going to use it […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Stefan Lindbohm @stefanlindbohm.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

Are we starting the tracker for publishing of timetable 2027 now? Switzerland has now uploaded the entire country’s timetables for the full next year to journey planners! When you thought they couldn’t impress you more, they strike again :) (Eurostar is also published into 2027, but is […]

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Stefan Lindbohm @stefanlindbohm.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026

@bovine3dom We have now fixed coach groups in our journey planner, so we’re ready for your next emergency vacation to Sicily 😅

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Tor Lillqvist @tml.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026

Sorry, #BahnBubble people, but if you fly around Europe just to travel a bit by train, you are part of the problem, not the solution. #climateEmergency

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Stefan Lindbohm @stefanlindbohm.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2026

Trying to wrap my mind around the NeTEx format for timetables (and a million other things), and found this absolute work of art in the official docs where they are describing on a theoretical level how they abstractely will describe what they will describe […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Stefan Lindbohm @stefanlindbohm.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2026

@jon A VR train has apparently physically been to Haparanda earlier this week! Source: www.facebook.com/share/p/1E5NjKj1jD

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Stefan Lindbohm @stefanlindbohm.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2026

Interrail reservations are now LIVE on Railfinder! Our number one question since the start, and now we can finally say: YES, you can use Railfinder when you’re traveling with Interrail. It’s the same search that finds good routes for any long trip across […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Screenshot of Railfinder showing a trip from Stockholm to Paris with prices for Interrail reservations for the entire trip.

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Stefan Lindbohm @stefanlindbohm.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/06/2026

Today I fixed a very long-standing bug in the Railfinder algorithm that meant a small subset of connections were missed in longer journey searches. This was the type of algorithm thing that literally has been mathematically difficult to figure out, and it has taken me multiple attempts to […]

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Stefan Lindbohm @stefanlindbohm.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/05/2026

What if Interrail reservations were available in a single booking even when travelling across operators and with both regular reservations and Interrail supplements - that would be pretty neat, right? This is exactly what we have cooking in the Railfinder […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Screenshot of Railfinder showing a trip from Gothenburg to Mulhouse with a combination of seat reservations in a single booking.

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Stefan Lindbohm @stefanlindbohm.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/05/2026

Hello from the 100 years anniversary train of electrification on the Swedish west mainline! Active loco is the very first class D 101 from the series that was ordered for these mainline services. No ETCS in sight here, two drivers are running on visual […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Stefan Lindbohm @stefanlindbohm.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/05/2026

The full range of DB tickets are available on Railfinder starting today! Sooo much work has gone into this, including a lot of improvements under the hood to enable this and future tickets/features. Feels so good to finally be able to go live and see it all work in real life!

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Stefan Lindbohm @stefanlindbohm.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/05/2026

The EC has presented its #PassengerPackage It sure does not lack in ambition to improve passenger rights and enable a fair and neutral ticketing market, and this ambition is great. Proposed implementation contain many details that won’t work in practice, however. Hopefully there will be […]

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Stefan Lindbohm @stefanlindbohm.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/04/2026

It’s silently a big day for Railfinder today – after 9 months of living with a performance issue in an external system that we’re dependent on for ticketing, it. is. finally. fixed!! If you’ve tested Railfinder in the past and found prices to load too slowly, now is the time to try again. Big […]

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Stefan Lindbohm @stefanlindbohm.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/04/2026

We’ve set up an official Railfinder account on Bluesky (bridged to fediverse) at @railfinder.eu. Follow using either platform for more formal product & occasional company updates. I’ll of course continue posting slightly less formally about most of it here too if that’s your vibe :)

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