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Live Blog – 2025 #CrossBorderRail Finale Day 41 – 31 July – arrival of Optima Express, Villach – Klagenfurt

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Live Blog – 2025 #CrossBorderRail Finale Day 21 – 7 July – Pravice – Laa/Thaya – Hodonín – Myjava – Nové Zámky – Komárno

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Live Blog – 2025 #CrossBorderRail Finale Day 20 – 6 July – Arrival of night train, St Pölten – Waidhofen/Thaya – Slavonice – Drosendorf – Znojmo – Pravice

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Live Blog – 2025 #CrossBorderRail Finale Day 18 – 4 July – Garmisch Partenkirchen – Pfronten-Steinach – Kempten(Allgäu) – Frankfurt(Main) – Brugge

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Live Blog – 2025 #CrossBorderRail Finale Day 17 – 3 July – St Anton am Arlberg – Landeck-Zams – Martina – Malles – Bolzano – Innsbruck – Garmisch Partenkirchen

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Live Blog – 2025 #CrossBorderRail Finale Day 16 – 2 July – Praha – České Budějovice – Linz Hbf – St Anton am Arlberg

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VDV on cross border re-activation of lines – nice idea, details more sketchy

The Verband Deutscher Verkehrsunternehmen (VDV) (Association of German Transport Companies) has a detailed new website about reactivation of railway lines, and a PDF report with more detail. And one aspect of their proposals are cross-border reactivations that they have been publicising with the little infographic that I reproduce here. So […]

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#CrossBorderRail is done for 2023 – now 193 railway borders in Europe investigated

I’m writing this blog post at my desk in Berlin, back home after the final part of my Autumn 2023 #CrossBorderRail journey. The past 10 days have taken me to Slovenia’s borders, then via Karlsruhe through France to Spain and Portugal, and then via Santiago to Compostela and Portugal again, […]

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Live Blog – Autumn 2023 Day 22, 20 Oct, night train, Stuttgart – Darmstadt – Karlsruhe

Jump to: Text updates | Summary videos | Latest photos | Today’s background | Today’s route   The best way to follow #CrossBorderRail as the trip develops is on social media – there are always posts on Mastodon (@jon@gruene.social & #CrossBorderRail) and Bluesky (@jonworth.eu & Custom Feed)   Text updates […]

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Live Blog – Autumn 2023 Day 21, 19 Oct, Ljubljana – Klagenfurt – Bleiburg – Dravograd – Maribor – Dobova, night train

Jump to: Text updates | Summary videos | Latest photos | Today’s background | Today’s route   The best way to follow #CrossBorderRail as the trip develops is on social media – there are always posts on Mastodon (@jon@gruene.social & #CrossBorderRail) and Bluesky (@jonworth.eu & Custom Feed)   Text updates […]

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