While this week I have mostly looked at the 🇩🇰🇩🇪 #CrossBorderRail, there is a problem at the 🇩🇰🇸🇪 border as well - SJ’s rebuilt X2000 trains are still not allowed to cross the Öresund bridge to reach København

See: https://jarnvagar.nu/fler-tag-pa-sparen-2027/

But I still don’t know WHY this is. Typical Danish rail bureaucracy headaches, or something more serious?

SHOCK! 😳

Ah no, not a shock

Not many passengers on Tornio - Haparanda #CrossBorderRail trains
https://jarnvagar.nu/stort-intresse-men-fa-resenarer/

Because the timetable is total crap

All being well it should work better from 13 December onwards…

Stort intresse men få resenärer – Järnvägar.nu

För två månader sedan var det nypremiär för persontågstrafik mellan Sverige och Finland. Intresset för resor över gränsen har varit stort men antalet resenärer har varit mer begränsat.

With timetable change on the horizon 13 December, I am starting to systematically analyse what will change with #CrossBorderRail then

This first 🧵 is about lines that will change their status - places that had no service and will now get some passenger service

Any I am missing, do tell me!

🤔

A month ago trains from Beograd to Zvornik Novi (Republika Srpska) were announced:
https://noviglas.info/2026/09/18/nova-veza-srpske-i-srbije-zvornik-i-beograd-prvi-put-svakodnevno-povezani-vozom/

But only Zvornik (which is Serbian side) is shown in Serbia Voz’s timetables and online ticket booking

Did this ever happen @mejs ?

#CrossBorderRail

More Flensburg 🇩🇪 - Padborg 🇩🇰 #CrossBorderRail solutions added this morning

1️⃣ Stop RJ and ECE trains in Flensburg (thanks @Lenny_du_Nord) - viable

2️⃣ Use an unpowered Vectron for ETCS and some diesel for power (thanks @moritzkraehe) - creative, but doubtful!

3️⃣ Use some carriages DSB bought from CFL 🇱🇺 (thanks @nj_kruse) - viable, but not sure it helps?

All added to the blog post!
https://jonworth.eu/how-alstoms-inability-to-deliver-trains-on-schedule-and-danish-incompetence-will-break-an-important-regional-train-connection-and-how-to-fix-it/#update-15102026-1000

How Alstom's inability to deliver trains on schedule, and Danish incompetence, will break an important regional train connection (and how to fix it)

As if Denmark - Germany long distance international connections were not already bad enough thanks to the Talgo saga, now the regional train connections between the two countries are getting worse as well.What follows in this post is a diagnosis only of the regional trains - long distance Hamburg - København trains

Now this post about Flensburg 🇩🇪 - Padborg 🇩🇰 has 5 different updates, totals more than 2000 words, and more than a dozen people have helped me with it

https://jonworth.eu/how-alstoms-inability-to-deliver-trains-on-schedule-and-danish-incompetence-will-break-an-important-regional-train-connection-and-how-to-fix-it/

And while it’s great to have such a comprehensive answer to what’s wrong, I so wish someone with POWER and RESPONSIBILITY had thought of all of this *when they could have acted*

Enough for today, more tomorrow

#CrossBorderRail

How Alstom's inability to deliver trains on schedule, and Danish incompetence, will break an important regional train connection (and how to fix it)

As if Denmark - Germany long distance international connections were not already bad enough thanks to the Talgo saga, now the regional train connections between the two countries are getting worse as well.What follows in this post is a diagnosis only of the regional trains - long distance Hamburg - København trains