Before leaving to my #Braidspoor trip next week, I still got a new travel backpack for @rosahaj and @eggbert for safe and comfortable travels 🥰.

Btw. УЗ schedule integration into European railway schedule data is getting better and better : all three mainline trains (D 40149, 105К, 036Ш) we'll be taking during #Braidspoor are present in European schedule. #CrossBorBorderRail

New #Braidspoor trains in my next trip :

- D 40149 / Ш 149Д #Hortobagy 🇦🇹 Wien Hbf - 🇭🇺 Budapest-Keleti - 🇺🇦 Київ Пас
- Ш 036Ш / TLK 35/33030 🇺🇦 Одеса - 🇵🇱 Przemyśl Gl.

Though these are new trains, neither of the routes is new to me. Well, but the trains are cute.

Booking successful :komfortcheckin: ! All trains and ferries for #Braidspoor reserved thereby !

Good news, ÖBB scheduled a :ch_restaurant: @diningcar for dinner on day 1 of my #Braidspoor #SleeperAndEater ! Let's hope they still have the vegan curry at :mav_symbol: !

All settled for my next #Braidspoor #CrossBorderRail trip : by waiting for 12 a.m. last night, I could catch two of the rare :kb_ec: 149 #Hortobagy :kb_kurswagen: through carriage reservations from 🇦🇹 Wien Hbf to 🇺🇦 Київ Рас.

Since the :oebb: were delayed in their booking system, I had to make use of the :mav_symbol: MÁV online system constraining international ticket purchases to stations from/to Hungary so in fact the ticket is only from Hegyshalom rather than Wien Hbf. Along with InterRail this shouldn't make a difference anyway, especially considering how we will first visit the dining car of the #SleeperAndEater anyway.

I'm very excited : I've already been in pretty any kind of :uz: Ukrainian sleeper carriages but the western-style RIC carriages of Ukrainian origin are something new to me anyway.

Our trip will be a long one : we will start in 🇫🇷 Alsace by regional train across the border to 🇩🇪 Germany and from 🇩🇪 Stuttgart on, the :kb_en: #KalmanImre will be taking us eastbound during night one. The first day will be a relaxed day in 🇦🇹 Wien (happy to meet fellow railway enthusiasts there, just poke me !), night two will bring us via 🇭🇺 Budapest and 🇺🇦 Львів to 🇺🇦 Київ where we planned delicious vegan dinner and sight seeing for my daughter who never went there before. Night three will bring us with the modern and comfortable :uz: 105К flagship to 🇺🇦 Одеса where we plan a relaxed day swimming in the Black Sea at the beaches of south of the town.

Because our destination sadly isn't Ukraine itself but 🇩🇰 Odense, night four will bring us north-westbound to 🇵🇱 Przemyśl in the :kb_kurswagen: through carriages of the 36Ш mainline. Day four will be a daytime travel day getting us to 🇵🇱 Gdynia at the Baltic Sea ports where night five will sail us by :stenaline: Stenaline over the sea to 🇸🇪 Karlskrona with the final part on day six via 🇩🇰 København to #BornHack on 🇩🇰 Funen island 🎉.

Stay tuned for railway travel reports !

@gonzo_askold They are horrible to read but once you understood them you can get adorable #Braidspoor trains !

#NewProfilePicture from my #Braidspoor trip 📸 !

🗺️ Львів | Lviv - a :uz: ЧМЗ3 locomotive hauling an Intercity train with the destination of Київ into the central station

🖼️ Одеса | Odesa - a :uz: ВЛ80 locomotive with the Przemyśl - Львів - Одеса night train arriving in the early morning at the black sea

Dans une :db: série 628 vers #FR:LTG 🎉. #Braidspoor (@ RB 52 ➜ Lauterbourg) #NowTräwelling https://traewelling.de/status/3527785

Dans une :db: série 643 vers #DE:RWRT 🎉. #Braidspoor (@ RB 51 ➜ Wörth(Rhein)) #NowTräwelling https://traewelling.de/status/3527644

Dans une :pride_sncf: série 4700 vers #DE:RK 🥖. #RealHighSpeedTrain #Braidspoor (@ TGV 9570 ➜ Karlsruhe Hbf) #NowTräwelling https://traewelling.de/status/3527349

#Braidspoor in numbers was :

- 10 countries/territories : 🇫🇷 France, 🇩🇪 Germany, 🇨🇭 Switzerland, 🇵🇱 Poland, 🇺🇦 Ukraine, 🇲🇩 Moldova, 🇷🇺 Pridnistrovie, 🇷🇴 Romania, 🇭🇺 Hungary, 🇦🇹 Austria
- 7500 km by trains
- 5 night trains (+ sadly one canceled)
- 115 h of train travels
- 11 hours by bus
- :sncf: :db: :sbb: :pkp: :uz: :cfm: :cfr: :mav_symbol: :oebb:

Dans une :db: série 412 vers #DE:TS 🎉. #Braidspoor (@ ICE 592 ➜ Stuttgart Hbf) #NowTräwelling https://traewelling.de/status/3526299

Dans des voitures :oebb: :kb_ec: voyage halées par une :oebb: série 1116 vers #DE:MH 🎉. #Braidspoor (@ EC 112 ➜ München Hbf) #NowTräwelling https://traewelling.de/status/3525152

Dans des voitures :oebb: :railjet: Siemens Viaggio Comfort halées par une :oebb: série 1116 vers #AT:Sb :heart_oebb_rj: . #RealHighSpeedTrain #Braidspoor (@ RJ 640 ➜ Salzburg Hbf) #NowTräwelling https://traewelling.de/status/3523809

From 🇷🇴 Sibiu on, we took the comfy, small :hu_ir: #Făgăraș consisting of two :mav_symbol: :hu_ec: carriages and a :cfr: class 60 diesel locomotive with a felt-like speed of 25 km/h across Transylvania. In 🇷🇴 Simeria, we were coupled as :kb_kurswagen: through-carriages into the :hu_ir: #Claudiopolis approaching from 🇷🇴 Cluj-Napoca further until the border with 🇭🇺 Hungary between 🇷🇴 Curtici and 🇭🇺 Lőkösháza where we got some more :mav_symbol: :hu_sz: regional carriages as well as a :mav_symbol: class 480 locomotive for the further travels towards 🇭🇺 Budapest Keleti station.

Budapest-Keleti for me feels like a gate to another world. Whereas we saw the :kb_en: #Hortobágy heading towards 🇺🇦 Chop and 🇺🇦 Kyiv, the :kb_en: #Dacia hearing back to 🇷🇴 Bucuresti, we took a seat in the comfortable and timelessly modern, relaxing :hu_rjx: :railjet: railjet in business class on our way back to 🇦🇹 Wien, a good glass of non-alcoholic Austrian beer included 🍻. #Braidspoor

Dans des voitures :oebb: :railjet: Siemens Viaggio Comfort halées par une :oebb: série 1116 vers #AT:Wbf :heart_oebb_rj: . #RealHighSpeedTrain #Braidspoor (@ RJX 266 ➜ Wien Hbf) #NowTräwelling https://traewelling.de/status/3521213

🇷🇴 - 🇭🇺 #CrossBorderRail is, when 20 % of your 10 hours of travel time are spent standing around in a station, coupling locomotives and waiting for sadly not illegal border checks. #Braidspoor

Dans des voitures directs :mav_symbol: :kb_kurswagen: voyage halées par une :cfr: série 47 et une :mav_symbol: 480 vers Budapest-Keleti 🎉. #RealInterCity #Braidspoor (@ IR 74 ➜ Budapest-Keleti) #NowTräwelling https://traewelling.de/status/3517119