Yes, the OG 🦆 line is back in 2026!

We are taking the Salzburg line, specifically:

• 09:35 leaving 🇸🇮 Ljubljana on D 316 to Villach Hbf
• 11:28 leaving 🇦🇹 Villach Hbf on ICE 116 towards Frankfurt am Main Hbf to Salzburg Hbf
  • or, failing that, 13:28 leaving 🇦🇹 Villach Hbf on EC 114 towards München Hbf to Salzburg Hbf
• (exploring 🇦🇹 Salzburg from 13:53 or 15:53 respectively to about 20:45)
• 21:18 leaving 🇦🇹 Salzburg Hbf on NJ 468 to Bruxelles Midi
• 09:55 (next day) arriving at 🇧🇪 Bruxelles Midi

Leader contact

Matija Šuklje (@hook)
Write to: matija (åt] suklje [döt) email
Join the Matrix chat: #hackertrain:kompot.si
Join the IRC chat: ircs://irc.libera.chat/#hackertrain

How to join

• Subscribe to this note's notifications to get updates (in the sidebar on the right)
• Discuss the trip’s plans here
• Optionally, you can introduce yourself here :-)
• Join the Matrix/IRC chat (see above)
• When the train goes, find us – @hook will travel with the traditional plush duck 🦆 and during his travels update his Träwelling profile

Bonus

@hook plans on going to the Brussels Pinball Museum for a few rounds of pinball and arcade games on 2026年01月28日 and warmly invites others to join him. Check #4 for details.

Some options as per Seat61:

1. sleep over in Munich
   • 11:08 leave Ljubljana – via Lesce-Bled, Jesenice, Villach – arrive in München Hbf at 17:41
   • sleep over in München Hbf
   • 06:52 leave München HBf – ICE to Frankfurt (Main) Hbf – another ICE – arrive in Brussels Midi at 13:35
2. Lisinski night train to Stuttgart
   • 22:10 leave Ljubljana – via Lesce-Bled, Jesenice, Villach, – arrive in Stuttgart Hbf at 08:38
   • 09:36 leave Stuttgart Hbf – change at Köln Hbf – arrive in Brussels Midi at 15:35
3. night train to Zürich
   • 22:10 leave Ljubljana – night train via Lesce-Bled – arrive in Zürich HB at 09:20
   • 11:59leave Zürich HB – change at Basel SBB – change at Frankfurt (Main) Hbf – arrive in Brussels Midi at 19:35
4. Nightjet sleeper trains from Vienna (only Tuesdays, Thursdays & Sundays)
   • 10:14 leave Ljubljana – change at Graz – arrive in Vienna Hbf at 16:36
   • 18:13 leave Vienna Hbf – arrive in Brussels Midi at 09:55
5. Nightjet sleeper train from Salzburg (only Tuesdays, Thursdays & Sundays)
   • 11:08 leave Ljubljana – arrive in Salzburg Hbf at 16:53
   • 21:18 leave Salzburg Hbf – arrive in Brussels Midi at 09:55

Personally, I would prefer the Nightjet options, because it leaves more time in Brussels. But if others will prefer the Zürich or Stuttgart option, I can do that too.

Decision

We are taking the Salzburg line, specifically:

• 09:35 leaving 🇸🇮 Ljubljana on D 316 to Villach Hbf
• 11:28 leaving 🇦🇹 Villach Hbf on ICE 116 towards Frankfurt am Main Hbf to Salzburg Hbf
  • or, failing that, 13:28 leaving 🇦🇹 Villach Hbf on EC 114 towards München Hbf to Salzburg Hbf
• (exploring 🇦🇹 Salzburg from 13:53 or 15:53 respectively to about 20:45)
• 21:18 leaving 🇦🇹 Salzburg Hbf on NJ 468 to Bruxelles Midi
• 09:55 (next day) arriving at 🇧🇪 Bruxelles Midi

In the evening, we can go visit the Brussels Pinball Museum

Hey, I'l traveling from Ljubljana to Brussels on Wednesday, 28th using the EN 414 -> Stuttgart -> ICE to Frankfurt -> ICE to Brussels.

Is anyone keen to join ? I'll thereby arrive Thursday around noon.

I'm thinking of taking the train on Thursday. But I have to check out the lines fro that day.

I'll need to be in Bruxelles for the entire Friday for the Matrix Fringe Event.

I'll check it out today in the evening (after Kiberpipa) and decide which day I'll travel.

Oh, I might be interested in visiting the Kiberpipa during my stay in Ljubljana. Can one drop by there for an evening with nerds ?

We have talks and hangouts every first Thursday in the month. If there is a holiday (as it was last week), we move it to the second week. If you're in Ljubljana on some other days, let us know and we can meet up on a beer or two :)

I will be joining the 🦆 group as well, all the way from Ljubljana to Brussles, including the visit to the Pinball Museum 👍

I guess it’s time for a quick introduction.

In short, I’m an IT/IP/FOSS lawyer by day, and hacker at night.

Some communities I’m active in are LUGOS and the Cyberipe (meta)hackerspace, where the HackerTrain idea originated. I self-host using YunoHost a home server and am a fan of the XMPP, as well as KDE.

I am also quite active in the FOSS licensing and compliance sphere, where amongst others, I have been active in things like REUSE best practices for marking your own code, FLA – possibly the only balanced CLA out there –, OpenChain, SPDX etc.

Oh, and I have a plush duck 🦆🫲😁

We arrived safely. Closing.