Today’s live text updates
You'd think that two reasonably well run countries - Sweden 🇸🇪 and Finland 🇫🇮 - could manage to fix a #CrossBorderRail line in a timely fashion
But no they can't
Wherever I go these sorts of sagas seem universal
A rant about Haparanda 🇸🇪 - Tornio 🇫🇮, and some nice photos:
https://jonworth.eu/cross-border-railway-problems-are-annoyingly-universal/
And going via Besançon-Viotte - La Chaux-de-Fonds and a bit of Chemins de Fer du Jura 🎉 #CrossBorderRail
So I have a spare Interrail day to use before 10th June
That means #CrossBorderRail day trip Train pour Bonfol! 🇨🇭🇫🇷
Border:
Bonfol 🇨🇭 - Pfetterhouse 🇫🇷
Close enough to link to the classic song, right? 😂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2ueOo1jE2w
It’s now mid May. Are we going to still see Tornio - Haparanda #CrossBorderRail opening this summer still? 🤔 https://www.railwaygazette.com/railtech-archive/2026/04/16/finland-says-long-delayed-cross-border-rail-link-to-sweden-set-for-summer-launch/
Time for what ought to be a simple bit of #CrossBorderRail - Bruxelles to Paris
What?
Berlin - Oslo direct in a Talgo? 🤔
These railways with ideas for new connections with these trains before anyone knows if they run properly…
#CrossBorderRail link via @cycling_on_rails
Meanwhile on LinkedIn 😆 #CrossBorderRail
Made it. Phew 🥵 #CrossBorderRail
The houses are in Luxembourg at the start of the video. The side road is in France. #CrossBorderRail
Rumelange. This #CrossBorderRail is UNESCO listed.
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Today’s introduction and summary videos
All the #CrossBorderRail daily videos are on my Peertube channel
Today’s photos
Today’s full album on Flickr
Today’s background
New borders:
Cerasolo Ausa 🇮🇹 – Rovereta 🇸🇲 (Former 950mm gauge)
Borders already crossed:
None
The only European micro state I have not visited. Better late than never! And it used to have a railway, that was dismantled at the end of World War II. Apparently there are some vague plans to re-activate it.
Today’s route
The full zoomable and scrollable map, including today’s route, is on uMap here.
