A week ago the #CrossBorderRail 2025 finale ended, and I am writing this post back in Ravières, and this is a kind of quick stock take. The finale encompassed 25000km on 168 trains, more than 1000km on the Birdy folding bike, and a mass of experience and lessons learned that […]
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Jump to: Updates | Summary videos | Borders & background | Music track | Route map | Photos Text updates There was a thread on Mastodon from this day of #CrossBorderRail – you can find the whole thread here Jump to: Updates | Summary videos | Borders & background […]
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Jump to: Updates | Summary videos | Borders & background | Music track | Route map | Photos Text updates There was a thread on Mastodon from this day of #CrossBorderRail – you can find the whole thread here Jump to: Updates | Summary videos | Borders & background […]
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Jump to: Updates | Summary videos | Borders & background | Music track | Route map | Photos Text updates There was a thread on Mastodon from this day of #CrossBorderRail – you can find the whole thread here Jump to: Updates | Summary videos | Borders & background […]
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Jump to: Updates | Summary videos | Borders & background | Music track | Route map | Photos Text updates There was a thread on Mastodon from this day of #CrossBorderRail – you can find the whole thread here Jump to: Updates | Summary videos | Borders & background […]
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Jump to: Updates | Summary videos | Borders & background | Music track | Route map | Photos Text updates There was a thread on Mastodon from this day of #CrossBorderRail – you can find the whole thread here Jump to: Updates | Summary videos | Borders & background […]
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Three short years ago when planning the first tour that was known as #CrossBorderRail, little did I know this would be the start of a project that would become a good part of my professional life in the years in between. That list of 95 rail borders investigated in 2022 […]
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When I went to Kumanovo in June of 2024 and found a railway station half complete, I must admit I did not think trains would run there any time soon. But this week I was proven wrong – the first part of the line that will eventually connect Skopje ion […]
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Finally I am done sorting and uploading photos from #CrossBorderRail South East Europe 2024 In this post there is one photo from each of the days, and a link to the full Flickr album from that day – to give an idea of this weird and wonderful journey! Day -02 […]
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The railway line from Thessaloniki (Greece) to Bitola (North Macedonia) via Florina has a long history. It was completed in 1894, before the Balkan Wars in 1913 resulted in the final 17km ending up in Yugoslavia. Trains continued to run on the cross border section until 1987, and then ceased, […]
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