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      • Day 00, 2 May – Berlin – Kiel – Oldenburg
      • Day 01, 3 May – Oldenburg – Puttgarden – Hamburg
      • Day 02, 4 May – Hamburg – Leer – Oldenburg
      • Day 03, 5 May – Oldenburg – Meppen – Coevorden – Münster (Westfalen) – Enschede
      • Day 04, 6 May – around Enschede
      • Day 05, 7 May – Enschede – Winterswijk – Bocholt
      • Day 06, 8 May – Bochholt – Herzogenrath – Aachen
      • Day 07, 9 May – Aachen – Liège – Luxembourg – Saarbrücken
      • Day 08, 10 May – Saarbrücken – Strasbourg – Lauterbourg – Karlsruhe
      • Day 09, 11 May – Karlsruhe – Konstanz – München
      • Day 10, 12 May – München – Simbach (Inn) – Nové Údolí – Horažďovice
      • Day 11, 13 May – Horažďovice – Domažlice – Nürnberg
      • Day 12, 14 May – Nürnberg – Hof – Dresden – Görlitz
      • Day 13, 18 May – Berlin – Weißwasser – Horka – Berlin
      • Day 14, 21 May – Berlin – Guben – Żary – Forst – Berlin
      • Events
    • 2022 All EU Borders Project
      • Detailed schedule
      • North circuit
        • Day 0 – Berlin (DE)-Mons (BE)
        • Day 1 – Mons-Den Haag (NL)
        • Day 2 – Den Haag-Niebüll (DE)
        • Day 3 – Niebüll-Stockholm (SE)
        • Day 4 – Stockholm-Oslo (NO), & night train
        • Day 5 – night train, Trondheim (NO)-Umeå (SE)
        • Day 6 – Umeå-Tornio (FI), & night train
        • Day 7 – night train, Helsinki (FI)-Tallinn (EE)
        • Day 8 – Tallinn-Riga (LV)
        • Day 9 – Riga-Vilnius (LT)
        • Day 10 – Vilnius-Warszawa (PL)
        • Day 11 – Warszawa-Berlin
      • South West circuit
        • Day 12 – Berlin-Lyon (FR)
        • Day 13 – Lyon–Lons-le-Saunier (FR)
        • Day 14 – Lons-le-Saunier–Metz (FR)
        • Day 15 – Metz-Paris (FR)
        • Day 16 – Paris-Zaragoza (ES)
        • Day 17 – Zaragoza-Vigo (ES)
        • Day 18 – Vigo-Lisboa (PT)
        • Day 19 – Lisboa-Madrid (ES)
        • Day 20 – Madrid-Marseille (FR)
        • Day 21 – Marseille-Roma (IT)
        • Day 22 – Roma-Bern (CH)
        • Day 23 – Bern-Villach (AT)
        • Day 24 – Villach-Ljubljana (SI)
        • Day 25 – Ljubljana-Zagreb (HR), & night train
        • Day 26 – night train, München (DE)-Berlin
      • South East circuit
        • Day 27 – Berlin-Wien (AT)
        • Day 28 – Wien-Budapest (HU)-Wien-Graz (AT)
        • Day 29 – Graz-Varaždin (HR)
        • Day 30 – Varaždin-Szeged (HU)
        • Day 31 – Szeged-Simeria (RO)
        • Day 32 – Simeria-Vidin (BG)
        • Day 33 – Vidin (BG)-Sofia (BG)
        • Day 34 – Sofia-Athens (GR)
        • Day 35 – Athens-Drama (GR)
        • Day 36 – Drama-Svilengrad (BG)
        • Day 37 – Svilengrad-Bucuresti (RO), & night train
        • Day 38 – night train, Szolnok (HU)-Poprad (SK)
        • Day 39 – Poprad-Bratislava (SK)
        • Day 40 – Bratislava-Berlin
      • DE-PL-CZ Extra Days
        • Day DE-PL 1 – Kostrzyn-Zielona Gora-Guben
        • Day DE-PL 2 – Ducherow-Świnoujście-Szczecin-Pasewalk
        • Day DE-PL-CZ – Görlitz-Černousy-Hradek nad Nisou-Zittau
        • Day DE-CZ 1 – Leipzig-Cheb-Aš-Vojtanov-Leipzig
        • Day DE-CZ 2 – Leipzig-Hammerunterwiesenthal-Karlovy Vary-Johanngeorgenstadt
        • Day DE-CZ-PL – Děčín-Rumburk-Varnsdorf-Zittau-Zgorzelec
      • What’s not included?
    • Extra Days
      • 2022 Extra Days
        • Extra Day DE-BE – Stolberg-Breinig-Raeren
        • Extra Day DE-BE-FR – Funeral for the Mons-Aulnoye Train
        • Extra Day DE-FR – Rastatt-Roeschwoog
        • Extra Day DE-PL – Schengen at Frankfurt (Oder)
        • Extra Day FR-BE – Givet-Dinant
        • Extra Day FR-BE – Lille-Kortrijk
        • Extra Day FR-BE – Maubeuge-Charleroi
        • Extra Day FR-BE – Nuits sous Ravières-Bruxelles, via Calais & Tournai
        • Extra Day FR-DE – Mulhouse-Müllheim (Baden)
        • Extra Day FR-DE-DK – Nuits sous Ravières-København
        • Extra Day HR-SI-AT-CH-FR – Zagreb-Zürich-Le Locle-Nuits sous Ravières
      • 2023 Extra Days
        • 15 Jan – Armentières – Menen
        • 21 Mar – Singen – Etzwilen, Evian – St Gingolph, and around Genève
        • 5 Apr – Nuits-sous-Ravières – Enschede
        • 6 Apr – Enschede – De Panne – Nuits-sous-Ravières
        • 11 Apr – Aulnoye – Quévy – BXL – Maubeuge – Nuits
        • 26 May – Berlin – Kraslice – Marktredwitz – München – Klagenfurt
        • 27 May – Klagenfurt – Lienz – Franzenfeste – Verona – Milano
        • 28 May – Milano – Tirano – Samedan – Chur – Basel – Berlin
        • 31 May – Berlin – Basel – Nuits-sous-Ravières – Paris – Latour-de-Carol-Enveitg
        • 2 Jun – Barcelona – Béziers – Nice – Ventimiglia – Pisa – Pontedera-Casciana Terme
        • 5 Jun – Pontedera-Casciana Terme – Bologna – Bern – Pontarlier – Nuits-sous-Ravières
        • 9 Jun – Berlin – Seifhennersdorf – Varnsdorf – Saabrücken
        • 10 June – Bruxelles – Athus – Audun-le-Tiche – Volmerange-les-Mines – Thionville – Nuits-sous-Ravières
      • 2024 Extra Days
  • Borders
    • Missing infrastructure
      • Berg NÖ 🇦🇹 – Bratislava-Petržalka 🇸🇰
      • Bray-Dunes 🇫🇷 – De Panne 🇧🇪
      • Givet 🇫🇷 – Heer-Agimont 🇧🇪
      • Kudowa-Zdrój 🇵🇱 – Náchod-Beloves 🇨🇿
      • Laarwald 🇩🇪 – Coevorden-Heege 🇳🇱
      • Lanaken 🇧🇪 – Maastricht 🇳🇱
      • Morlaix 🇫🇷 – Roscoff 🇫🇷 for ferries to Ireland 🇮🇪
      • St-Gingolph (Suisse) 🇨🇭 – St-Gingolph 🇫🇷
      • Valenciennes 🇫🇷 – Mons 🇧🇪
    • Missing service
      • Bardonecchia 🇮🇹 – Modane 🇫🇷
      • Ebersbach 🇩🇪 – Jiríkov-Filipov 🇨🇿
      • Croatia 🇭🇷 – Slovenia 🇸🇮 & Croatia 🇭🇷 – Hungary 🇭🇺
      • Hendaye 🇫🇷 – Irun 🇪🇸 & Cerbère 🇫🇷 – Portbou 🇪🇸
      • Hamont 🇧🇪 – Weert 🇳🇱
      • Horka Gbf 🇩🇪 – Wegliniec 🇵🇱
      • Nova Gorica 🇸🇮 – Gorizia 🇮🇹
      • Ormenio 🇬🇷 – Svilengrad 🇧🇬
      • Vilar Formoso 🇵🇹 – Fuentes de Oñoro 🇪🇸
      • Vilnius 🇱🇹 – Turmantas 🇱🇹 – Daugavpils 🇱🇻
    • Poor service
      • Aachen 🇩🇪 – Welkenraedt 🇧🇪
      • Dobova 🇸🇮 – Savski Marof 🇭🇷
      • Dresden 🇩🇪 – Görlitz 🇩🇪 – Zgorzelec 🇵🇱
      • Figueres 🇪🇸 – Perpignan 🇫🇷
      • Furth im Wald 🇩🇪 – Ceská Kubice 🇨🇿
      • Le Locle-Col-des-Roches 🇨🇭 – Morteau 🇫🇷 & Travers 🇨🇭 – Pontarlier 🇫🇷
      • Liberec 🇨🇿 – Porajów 🇵🇱 – Zittau 🇩🇪
      • Plaveč 🇸🇰 – Muszyna 🇵🇱
      • Romania 🇷🇴 – Bulgaria 🇧🇬
      • Schweighofen 🇩🇪 – Wissembourg 🇫🇷 & Berg (Pfalz) 🇩🇪 – Lauterbourg 🇫🇷
      • Simbach 🇩🇪 – Braunau 🇦🇹
      • Strelná 🇨🇿 – Strelenka 🇸🇰
      • Tallinn 🇪🇪 – Valga 🇪🇪 – Rīga 🇱🇻
      • Vigo 🇪🇸 – Porto 🇵🇹
      • Villa Opicina 🇮🇹 – Sežana 🇸🇮
    • Ticketing or other problem
      • Forst 🇩🇪 – Zasieki 🇵🇱 and all the DE-PL borders
      • France 🇫🇷 – Spain 🇪🇸 (2 problems remaining)
      • Offenburg 🇩🇪 – Strasbourg 🇫🇷
    • Success stories
      • France 🇫🇷 – Spain 🇪🇸 (1 problem solved)
      • Marijampolė 🇱🇹 – Suwałki 🇵🇱
      • Marseille 🇫🇷 – Ventimiglia 🇮🇹 – Genova 🇮🇹
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    • 2023 Germany Borders Project
      • Day 00, 2 May – Berlin – Kiel – Oldenburg
      • Day 01, 3 May – Oldenburg – Puttgarden – Hamburg
      • Day 02, 4 May – Hamburg – Leer – Oldenburg
      • Day 03, 5 May – Oldenburg – Meppen – Coevorden – Münster – Enschede
      • Day 04, 6 May – around Enschede
      • Day 05, 7 May – Enschede – Winterswijk – Bocholt
      • Day 06, 8 May – Bochholt – Herzogenrath – Aachen
      • Day 07, 9 May – Aachen – Liège – Luxembourg – Saarbrücken
      • Day 08, 10 May – Saarbrücken – Strasbourg – Lauterbourg – Karlsruhe
      • Day 09, 11 May – Karlsruhe – Konstanz – München
      • Day 10, 12 May – München – Simbach (Inn) – Nové Údolí – Horažďovice
      • Day 11, 13 May – Horažďovice – Domažlice – Nürnberg
      • Day 12, 14 May – Nürnberg – Hof – Dresden – Görlitz
      • Day 13, 18 May – Berlin – Weißwasser – Horka – Berlin
      • Day 14, 21 May – Berlin – Guben – Żary – Forst – Berlin
      • Events
    • 2022 All EU Borders Project
      • Political conclusions from the 2022 project
      • Detailed schedule
      • North circuit
        • Day 0 – Berlin (DE)-Mons (BE)
        • Day 1 – Mons-Den Haag (NL)
        • Day 2 – Den Haag-Niebüll (DE)
        • Day 3 – Niebüll-Stockholm (SE)
        • Day 4 – Stockholm-Oslo (NO), & night train
        • Day 5 – night train, Trondheim (NO)-Umeå (SE)
        • Day 6 – Umeå-Tornio (FI), & night train
        • Day 7 – night train, Helsinki (FI)-Tallinn (EE)
        • Day 8 – Tallinn-Riga (LV)
        • Day 9 – Riga-Vilnius (LT)
        • Day 10 – Vilnius-Warszawa (PL)
        • Day 11 – Warszawa-Berlin
      • South West circuit
        • Day 12 – Berlin-Lyon (FR)
        • Day 13 – Lyon–Lons-le-Saunier (FR)
        • Day 14 – Lons-le-Saunier–Metz (FR)
        • Day 15 – Metz-Paris (FR)
        • Day 16 – Paris-Zaragoza (ES)
        • Day 17 – Zaragoza-Vigo (ES)
        • Day 18 – Vigo-Lisboa (PT)
        • Day 19 – Lisboa-Madrid (ES)
        • Day 20 – Madrid-Marseille (FR)
        • Day 21 – Marseille-Roma (IT)
        • Day 22 – Roma-Bern (CH)
        • Day 23 – Bern-Villach (AT)
        • Day 24 – Villach-Ljubljana (SI)
        • Day 25 – Ljubljana-Zagreb (HR), & night train
        • Day 26 – night train, München (DE)-Berlin
      • South East circuit
        • Day 27 – Berlin-Wien (AT)
        • Day 28 – Wien-Budapest (HU)-Wien-Graz (AT)
        • Day 29 – Graz-Varaždin (HR)
        • Day 30 – Varaždin-Szeged (HU)
        • Day 31 – Szeged-Simeria (RO)
        • Day 32 – Simeria-Vidin (BG)
        • Day 33 – Vidin (BG)-Sofia (BG)
        • Day 34 – Sofia-Athens (GR)
        • Day 35 – Athens-Drama (GR)
        • Day 36 – Drama-Svilengrad (BG)
        • Day 37 – Svilengrad-Bucuresti (RO), & night train
        • Day 38 – night train, Szolnok (HU)-Poprad (SK)
        • Day 39 – Poprad-Bratislava (SK)
        • Day 40 – Bratislava-Berlin
      • DE-PL-CZ Extra Days
        • Day DE-PL 1 – Kostrzyn-Zielona Gora-Guben
        • Day DE-PL 2 – Ducherow-Świnoujście-Szczecin-Pasewalk
        • Day DE-PL-CZ – Görlitz-Černousy-Hradek nad Nisou-Zittau
        • Day DE-CZ 1 – Leipzig-Cheb-Aš-Vojtanov-Leipzig
        • Day DE-CZ 2 – Leipzig-Hammerunterwiesenthal-Karlovy Vary-Johanngeorgenstadt
        • Day DE-CZ-PL – Děčín-Rumburk-Varnsdorf-Zittau-Zgorzelec
      • What’s not included?
    • Extra Days
      • 2022 Extra Days
        • Extra Day DE-BE – Stolberg-Breinig-Raeren
        • Extra Day DE-BE-FR – Funeral for the Mons-Aulnoye Train
        • Extra Day DE-PL – Schengen at Frankfurt (Oder)
        • Extra Day DE-FR – Rastatt-Roeschwoog
        • Extra Day FR-BE – Givet-Dinant
        • Extra Day FR-BE – Lille-Kortrijk
        • Extra Day FR-BE – Maubeuge-Charleroi
        • Extra Day FR-BE – Nuits sous Ravières-Bruxelles, via Calais & Tournai
        • Extra Day FR-DE – Mulhouse-Müllheim (Baden)
        • Extra Day FR-DE-DK – Nuits sous Ravières-København
        • Extra Day HR-SI-AT-CH-FR – Zagreb-Zürich-Le Locle-Nuits sous Ravières
      • 2023 Extra Days
        • 15 Jan – Armentières – Menen
        • 21 Mar – Singen – Etzwilen, Evian – St Gingolph, and around Genève
        • 5 Apr – Nuits-sous-Ravières – Enschede
        • 6 Apr – Enschede – De Panne – Nuits-sous-Ravières
        • 11 Apr – Aulnoye – Quévy – BXL – Maubeuge – Nuits
        • 26 May – Berlin – Kraslice – Marktredwitz – München – Klagenfurt
        • 27 May – Klagenfurt – Lienz – Franzenfeste – Verona – Milano
        • 28 May – Milano – Tirano – Samedan – Chur – Basel – Berlin
        • 31 May – Berlin – Basel – Nuits-sous-Ravières – Paris – Latour-de-Carol-Enveitg
        • 2 Jun – Barcelona – Béziers – Nice – Ventimiglia – Pisa – Pontedera-Casciana Terme
        • 5 Jun – Pontedera-Casciana Terme – Bologna – Bern – Pontarlier – Nuits-sous-Ravières
        • 9 Jun – Berlin – Seifhennersdorf – Varnsdorf – Saabrücken
        • 10 Jun – Bruxelles – Athus – Audun-le-Tiche – Volmerange-les-Mines – Thionville – Nuits-sous-Ravières
      • 2024 Extra Days
  • Borders
    • Missing infrastructure
      • Berg NÖ 🇦🇹 – Bratislava-Petržalka 🇸🇰
      • Bray-Dunes 🇫🇷 – De Panne 🇧🇪
      • Givet 🇫🇷 – Heer-Agimont 🇧🇪
      • Kudowa-Zdrój 🇵🇱 – Náchod-Beloves 🇨🇿
      • Laarwald 🇩🇪 – Coevorden-Heege 🇳🇱
      • Lanaken 🇧🇪 – Maastricht 🇳🇱
      • Morlaix 🇫🇷 – Roscoff 🇫🇷 for ferries to Ireland 🇮🇪
      • St-Gingolph (Suisse) 🇨🇭 – St-Gingolph 🇫🇷
      • Valenciennes 🇫🇷 – Mons 🇧🇪
    • Missing service
      • Bardonecchia 🇮🇹 – Modane 🇫🇷
      • Croatia 🇭🇷 – Slovenia 🇸🇮 & Croatia 🇭🇷 – Hungary 🇭🇺
      • Ebersbach 🇩🇪 – Jiríkov-Filipov 🇨🇿
      • Hendaye 🇫🇷 – Irun 🇪🇸 & Cerbère 🇫🇷 – Portbou 🇪🇸
      • Hamont 🇧🇪 – Weert 🇳🇱
      • Horka Gbf 🇩🇪 – Wegliniec 🇵🇱
      • Nova Gorica 🇸🇮 – Gorizia 🇮🇹
      • Ormenio 🇬🇷 – Svilengrad 🇧🇬
      • Vilar Formoso 🇵🇹 – Fuentes de Oñoro 🇪🇸
      • Vilnius 🇱🇹 – Turmantas 🇱🇹 – Daugavpils 🇱🇻
    • Poor service
      • Aachen 🇩🇪 – Welkenraedt 🇧🇪
      • Dobova 🇸🇮 – Savski Marof 🇭🇷
      • Dresden 🇩🇪 – Görlitz 🇩🇪 – Zgorzelec 🇵🇱
      • Figueres 🇪🇸 – Perpignan 🇫🇷
      • Furth im Wald 🇩🇪 – Ceská Kubice 🇨🇿
      • Le Locle-Col-des-Roches 🇨🇭 – Morteau 🇫🇷 & Travers 🇨🇭 – Pontarlier 🇫🇷
      • Liberec 🇨🇿 – Porajów 🇵🇱 – Zittau 🇩🇪
      • Plaveč 🇸🇰 – Muszyna 🇵🇱
      • Romania 🇷🇴 – Bulgaria 🇧🇬
      • Schweighofen 🇩🇪 – Wissembourg 🇫🇷 & Berg (Pfalz) 🇩🇪 – Lauterbourg 🇫🇷
      • Simbach 🇩🇪 – Braunau 🇦🇹
      • Strelná 🇨🇿 – Strelenka 🇸🇰
      • Tallinn 🇪🇪 – Valga 🇪🇪 – Rīga 🇱🇻
      • Vigo 🇪🇸 – Porto 🇵🇹
      • Villa Opicina 🇮🇹 – Sežana 🇸🇮
    • Ticketing or other problem
      • Forst 🇩🇪 – Zasieki 🇵🇱 and all the DE-PL borders
      • France 🇫🇷 – Spain 🇪🇸 (2 problems remaining)
      • Offenburg 🇩🇪 – Strasbourg 🇫🇷
    • Success stories
      • France 🇫🇷 – Spain 🇪🇸 (1 problem solved)
      • Marijampolė 🇱🇹 – Suwałki 🇵🇱
      • Marseille 🇫🇷 – Ventimiglia 🇮🇹 – Genova 🇮🇹
      • Seifhennersdorf 🇩🇪 – Varnsdorf 🇨🇿
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Lanaken 🇧🇪 – Maastricht 🇳🇱

Missing Link

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European Commission Analysis

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Photos from this location

Lanaken (BE) - Maastricht (NL)
Lanaken (BE) – Maastricht (NL)
18 photos
SNCB Break EMU in Bilzen
Bilzen station
Bilzen - Lanaken - Maastricht line - old track at Bilzen
Bilzen - Lanaken - Maastricht line - old track close to Bilzen, after branching from main line
Bilzen - Lanaken - Maastricht line - old track close to Bilzen, after branching from main line
Bilzen - Lanaken - Maastricht line - old track close to Bilzen, after branching from main line
Bilzen - Lanaken - Maastricht line - Albertskanaal bridge
Bilzen - Lanaken - Maastricht line - Albertskanaal bridge
Bilzen - Lanaken - Maastricht line - Albertskanaal bridge
Bilzen - Lanaken - Maastricht line - Albertskanaal bridge
Canal bridge Lanaken
The border section of the line - change in sleepers marks the border
The border section of the line - change in sleepers marks the border
The border section of the line - change in sleepers marks the border
Line at the edge of Maastricht
Line at the edge of Maastricht
Bridge over the Maas
Bridge over the Maas

 

Map of the location

Full zoomable All The Borders map on umap.

 

 

 

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