Switzerland

Live Blog – Conclusions Tour Day 17 – 16 October – Ravières – Dijon – Lausanne – Montreux – Zweisimmen – Bern – Basel – Zürich, Onto night train

Jump to: Updates | Summary videos | Borders & background | Route map | Photos   Today’s live text updates Text updates are auto-generated from Mastodon – follow me on Mastodon @jon@gruene.social Some updates will also be occasionally be posted on Bluesky – follow me @jonworth.eu Jump to: Updates | […]

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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

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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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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VDV zur Reaktivierung grenzüberschreitender Bahnstrecken – schöne Idee, Details noch unklar

(Dieser Artikel wurde mit Hilfe von Deepl aus dem Englischen übersetzt und leicht korrigiert) Der Verband Deutscher Verkehrsunternehmen (VDV) hat eine ausführliche neue Website über die Reaktivierung von Eisenbahnstrecken und einen PDF-Bericht mit weiteren Details veröffentlicht. Ein Aspekt ihrer Vorschläge sind grenzüberschreitende Reaktivierungen, die sie mit der kleinen Infografik, die […]

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Border stations in national tariff systems – a simple change with a meaningful impact

At opposite ends of Germany there are two cross border railways where tickets for the trains are wonderfully simple – from Gronau (Nordrhein-Westfalen) to Enschede (Netherlands), and from Freilassing (Bayern) to Salzburg (Austria). At two other borders – Kehl (Baden-Württemberg) to Strasbourg (France), and Forst Lausitz (Brandenburg) to Żary (Poland) […]

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The best #CrossBorderRail lines to visit

#CrossBorderRail is a very political project – to push for better international railway connections between European countries. But one of the things that makes the project so fun is that it has taken me to some wonderful places amongst the 130 borders I have crossed in the past 12 months […]

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Live blog – Extra Day 06, 5 June – Pontedera-Casciana Terme – Bologna – Bern – Pontarlier – Nuits-sous-Ravières

Jump to: Text updates | Summary videos | Latest photos | Today’s background | Today’s route   Text updates This day was live-tooted on Mastodon, and the updates only showed here on the site on the day itself. You can still find the Mastodon thread from the day here: https://gruene.social/@jon/110490210239351123 […]

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Live blog – Extra Day 03, 28 May – Milano – Tirano – Samedan – Chur – Basel – Berlin

Jump to: Text updates | Summary videos | Latest photos | Today’s background | Today’s route   Text updates This day was live-tooted on Mastodon, and the updates only showed here on the site on the day itself. You can still find the Mastodon thread from the day here: https://gruene.social/@jon/110444576560068022 […]

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