Thread by @jonworth

Welcome to #CrossBorderRail Day 25 twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

This is today’s route map, basically (Bubnjarci - Karlovac is now bike not train)

#CrossBorderRail Train 90
RE 3235 09:22 Ljubljana - Metlika 12:01
Ave speed: 47 km/h
Operator: @slozeleznice

Train type: Stadler low floor DMU
⛽️
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (step free where platform allows)
📶: ✅
🍽: ⛔️

This train - like yesterday’s - is pretty packed. Groups of kids mainly, off to some summer camp. I’ve luckily found a quiet seat at the very end of the train!

Only disappointment in these new Stadler trains in Slovenia: the interior is quite bland and not especially well designed. What’s this table actually for? The windows also have these chunky rubber edges. How much more would it be to make these like the @sob_ch Voralpen trains?

And it’s another charming line. Villages, fields, hills, forest. There’d be business in tourist trains - see Slovenia by train in 5 days or something like that. It’s so nice.

If you must run a diesel train, this is how to design them - the Stadler way. The motor is in the short power pack (towards the end of the video). This means the passenger cabins are super quiet and vibration free - no motor under the floor as in other DMUs

The Ljubljana - Metlika line. A stork is unperturbed by the train. A neatly turned out station manager. And a passing train in the other direction.

A few pics from yesterday between Nova Gorica and Sežana

Slovenian rail staff have impeccable and very retro outfits!

Metlika. It’s like a proper border station. It’s even got flags! The problem: it’s not got any international trains any more…

OMG. The track at Bubnjarci, Croatian side 🤯

The rail bridge Bubnjarci 🇭🇷 - Metlika 🇸🇮

A fence across the lines in the middle of the bridge, and tracks very overgrown. Nothing has run here for some time! #crossborderrail

So long Bubnjarci. No train so it’s bike to Karlovac.

When in Karlovac…

Approaching town feels like going through a small version of Novi Beograd

Today’s Birdy pic. Ozalj 🇭🇷

Quality track

Waiting room

I’ve been diligently writing postcards. But finding stamps to send them… well not quite so good! Off go 8 cards - 4 to @AdinaValean and 4 to supporters of #CrossBorderRail from Karlovac 🇭🇷

Rail in Croatia makes me sad. Karlovac is a nice old Austro-Hungarian era station. But no one has paid any attention to it for 3 decades…

I think this one was originally blue?

Apart from the livery I’m back in Sweden

Nice font

Karlovac hasn’t changed much since 1921

#CrossBorderRail Train 91
4001 17:37 Karlovac - Zagreb Gl K 18:29
Ave speed: 95 km/h
Operator: HŽPP

Train type: ASEA design class 1141 & renovated carriages
⚡️
🚲: ✅ (but high steps)
🦽: ⛔️
📶: ⛔️
🍽: ⛔️

#ConnectingEurope Express! I’ve found it! Or a locomotive at least. It’s a 1970s HŽPP locomotive. #CrossBorderRail

My room for tonight. EuroNight Zagreb - München Ost

A few more drone shots of the #CrossBorderRail border bridge Metlika 🇸🇮 - Bubnjarci 🇭🇷 from earlier today

And this is what the track looks like at the Croatian end of the bridge - totally overgrown! Nothing has run here in a while!