Meanwhile my data is up to date

4️⃣2️⃣8️⃣ borders now investigated
(of 523 in my database - I have less than 100 to do still!)

It's needed 1220 trains, and 189368 rail-km so far

And 259 bike stages, and 6146 bike-km

While I have a few more #CrossBorderRail odds and ends in the next few weeks, the next new borders will be in September (I think)

Ah

@andrew_shadura has alerted me to a right old #CrossBorderRail cock up at Bratislava

Despite Austrian EMUs running to Petržalka station in Bratislava for *years*, the Slovaks have now banned the trains due to some missing paperwork 🤦‍♂️

@vorortanleiter any idea how serious this is?

https://dennikn.sk/5380399/slovensky-urad-zakazal-modernym-rakuskym-vlakom-jazdit-do-petrzalky/

Slovenský úrad zakázal moderným rakúskym vlakom jazdiť do Petržalky

Cestujúci na časti trasy Petržalka – Viedeň musia využívať náhradnú autobusovú dopravu, pretože Dopravný úrad zistil údajné nedostatky v papieroch rakúskych súprav.

TER 17781
19:13 Paris Bercy - Nuits-sous-Ravières 21:38

Distance: 224.2km
Average speed: 93km/h

6 stops:
Sens
Joigny
Laroche-Migennes
St-Florentin-Vergigny
Tonnerre
Nuits-sous-Ravières

This train, mapped: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2026-spring-tour_1361108#9/48.359899/3.159943

#CrossBorderRail

#CrossBorderRail 2026 Spring Tour

Tours in Spring 2026.Each day of the project is a Layer in the map - these should be displayed by default, or if not click the three layered diamonds icon "Open browser" to the left side of the map.The icons are all for borders, roughly coloured to differentiate the borders. A cross through a track means NO TRAINS CAN RUN. A cross through trains but not track means TRAINS CAN RUN BUT NO PASSENGER TRAINS. And TRAIN AND TRACK (no crosses) means there is a passenger service.

#CrossBorderRail 2026 Spring Tour Train 134 of 134
TER 17781
19:13 Paris Bercy - Nuits-sous-Ravières 21:38
SNCF for TER Mobigo

Train type: Alstom Régiolis EMU, 2x 6 short carriages
⚡️ (1.5kV dc)
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (step free)
🛜: ⛔️
🍽️: ⛔️
🧳: 🙂️
🧽: 😐 (bit grimy, both inside and out)️
Interrail: 🙂 (accepted)

And finally #CrossBorderRail

Lengeler 🇧🇪 – Wilwerdingen 🇱🇺

https://crossborderrail.eu/borders/lengeler-%F0%9F%87%A7%F0%9F%87%AA-wilwerdingen-%F0%9F%87%B1%F0%9F%87%BA/

I couldn't get into the tunnel here, because bats nesting have closed it!

Lengeler 🇧🇪 – Wilwerdingen 🇱🇺

Neidingen 🇧🇪 – Hemmeres 🇩🇪 – Auel 🇧🇪
#CrossBorderRail

https://crossborderrail.eu/borders/neidingen-%F0%9F%87%A7%F0%9F%87%AA-hemmeres-%F0%9F%87%A9%F0%9F%87%AA-auel-%F0%9F%87%A7%F0%9F%87%AA/

This is a bit of a complex one

From 1918 until 1956 this was like the rest of the Vennbahn - the line was Belgian, and it made an enclave on one side. But then a 1956 territory re-allocation made even the track bed here German, hence why it counts as a border and a transit now (photos on the page show more)

Neidingen 🇧🇪 – Hemmeres 🇩🇪 – Auel 🇧🇪

And today's #CrossBorderRail rail borders (after the tramways earlier)

All are the southern end of the Vennbahn

Ihren 🇩🇪 – Steinebrück 🇧🇪

https://crossborderrail.eu/borders/ihren-%F0%9F%87%A9%F0%9F%87%AA-steinebrueck-%F0%9F%87%A7%F0%9F%87%AA/

Ihren 🇩🇪 – Steinebrück 🇧🇪

Now I’m thinking “does this mean I’ll not get SMS about anything useful?”

And then I thought “no, SNCF won’t send me anything useful”

#CrossBorderRail

🤬🤬🤬🤬 #CrossBorderRail

They’re obsessed

And yes I stopped this right away

TGV 2875
15:10 Luxembourg - Paris Est 17:19

Distance: 375.5km
Average speed: 175km/h

3 stops:
Thionville
Metz Ville
Paris Est

This train, mapped: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2026-spring-tour_1361108#9/49.233741/4.269562

#CrossBorderRail

Also given SNCF is removing Ville from station names, one presumes this will stop at Thion and Metz in future 😂

#CrossBorderRail 2026 Spring Tour

Tours in Spring 2026.Each day of the project is a Layer in the map - these should be displayed by default, or if not click the three layered diamonds icon "Open browser" to the left side of the map.The icons are all for borders, roughly coloured to differentiate the borders. A cross through a track means NO TRAINS CAN RUN. A cross through trains but not track means TRAINS CAN RUN BUT NO PASSENGER TRAINS. And TRAIN AND TRACK (no crosses) means there is a passenger service.