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Live Blog – 2025 #CrossBorderRail Finale Day 14 – 23 June – Arrival of night train, Hamburg – Frankfurt (Main) – Mulhouse – Dijon – Ravières

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 First part, and the extra spillover here   Jump to: Updates | […]

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Live Blog – 2025 #CrossBorderRail Finale Day 7 – 14 June – Rzeszów – Frankfurt (Oder) – Berlin – Köln – Bruxelles

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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Live Blog – 2025 #CrossBorderRail Finale Day 0 – 6 June – Ravières – Montbard – Paris – Frankfurt (Main) – Dresden – Praha – Kolín

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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#CrossBorderRail the finale 2025: route now set, journey starts 6th June

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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The accessibility problems with Alstom’s new TGV-M train – with implications for future Channel Tunnel operators

There is no way to sweeten this: my original conclusion that Alstom’s Avelia Horizon (known as TGV-M with SNCF) is not legal at higher station platforms outside France was incorrect. Because transparency and correcting my errors matters to me, you can read the original blog entry in full here – […]

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