# Missing trains in international schedule and a proposal

Dear SŽ, dear ÖBB,

I am a frequent traveller on Graz - Ljubljana trains and I regularly follow changes to the international schedules on my relation. I have noticed that multiple trains are missing in international schedules. Some ob OBB, others on SŽ website.

On OBB Scotty:
From Graz to Ljubljana there is a missing possible journey at 7.10 from Graz:
Graz - Spielfeld: 7:10 - 7:59 (S5 4011)
Spielfeld - Ljubljana: 8:04 - 10:05 (ICS 31) (MISSING TRAIN)

From Ljubljana to Graz there is another missing journey at 5:35 from Ljubljana:
Ljubljana - Maribor: 5:35 - 7:34 (IC 512)
Maribor - Spielfeld: 7:40 - 7:55 (ICS 30) (MISSING TRAIN)
Spielfeld - Graz: 8:00 - 8:51 (S5 4108)

From Ljubljana to Graz there is another missing journey at 5:35 from Ljubljana:
Ljubljana - Maribor: 12:36 - 14:22 (ICS 36)
Maribor - Spielfeld: 14:25 - 14:40 (ICS 32) (MISSING TRAIN, the train just renumbered and continues to Spielfeld)
Spielfeld - Graz: 14:46 - 15:22 (S5 4108)

On SŽ Website there is no international schedule other then static pages:
on potniski.sz.si/gradec/ missing journeys are: (only journeys with sensible travelling times are included)
Ljubljana - Graz
5.35 - 8.51 - (IC)+ICS30+S (3:16)
10.55 - 14.50 - LP+S (3:55)
12.37 - 15.22 - ICS36/32+D (2:47)

Graz - Ljubljana
7.10 - 10.05 - S+ICS31 (2:55)
13.10 - 17.10 - S+LP+IC(S) (4:00)
16.27 - 19.40 - REX+LP+IC(S)521 (3:13) (An very underrated connection)

Furthermore, I have complained multiple times to SŽ to consider changing the schedule of ICS 33 that leaves from Spielfeld to Maribor at 15:17 and misses a connection for ICS train to Ljubljana, to 15.04 (trainset is already present at Spielfeld at the time). Such a change would enable one of the fastest connections between Graz and Ljubljana at 3:00 instead of the current 4:00. The journey would be:

Graz - Spielfeld: 14.10 - 14:59 (S5 4121)
Spielfeld - Maribor: 15:04 - 15:19 (ICS 33) (MOVED FROM 15:17 TO 15.04)
Maribor - Ljubljana: 15:20 - 17:10 (IC 519) (Run by ICS trainsets)
Travel time: 3 hours

Such change would break the connection between D155 and ICS 33, but the current ICS 33 has no further connection at Maribor which is a shame.

I would kindly ask OBB to look into this, because the following proposal has only fallen to deaf ears at SŽ.


(Note screenshots are from last year when I proposed this to SŽ. There might be small discrepancies)

Thank you for your time. At the end of the day, I am just a passenger that is scared that trains are going to be cancelled because of low load factors. I hope that my comments and proposals can help improve the connectivity between Ljubljana and Graz.

In hope of solving this, I have sent this to both OBB and to SŽ.

Regards,
Urban Suhadolnik