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  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. It’s a touristic service nowadays rather than a practical commute, but who can really complain about a timetable with 20 minute coffee breaks anyways?

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  @jon@gruene.social @HaTetsu@mastodon.com.pl I’d guess that, yes, Norwegian operators are the ones providing realtime data to Entur. Static schedules are probably coming from BaneNOR but not realtime. So Entur is just showing the static data? Meanwhile SJ simply has no realtime system of their own. Their app shows data from Trafikverket straight up. Hence no realtime data gets sent outside of Sweden and no data is shown for outside of Sweden in their app.

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  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, big relief for us, and this allows us to finally start making steps to actually grow what we do and increase our user base. We have been cooking so stay tuned!

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  More details on the new order of Swedish night train rolling stock: the order is for 11 sets of 9 night coaches and 9 sets of 7 day coaches. Meaning Trafikverket will own coaches with a total of 1122 sleeper accommodations, compared to 1970 accommodations today. 1452 seats, compared to 1434 today. So more than 800 beds fewer, but slightly more seats. (Check my math.) https://jarnvagar.nu/trafikverket-glomde-71-vagnar/

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  Apparently the Swedish Competition Authority ruled in 2019, in a case brought by two open access operators, that forcing the incumbent operator to sell competitors in their dominant sales channel would be an ineffective measure. Instead they propose to legislate fair conditions for independent booking portals to emerge. AFAIK, this was not followed up by legislators. Interesting context from a national authority in regards to the upcoming EU proposals. https://www.konkurrensverket.se/konkurre...

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  Today we’re quietly (and finally!) opening up Railfinder to the public! This is our beta version and - hopefully - the first step towards that one booking site for trains across Europe that we all dream of. Lots of work has gone into this and equally lots still to do before reach that vision, but if you’d like to try what we’ve built you can now just go to https://www.railfinder.eu and have a go! Any and all feedback more than welcome 🙏