FR 8802
06:10 Rimini - Bologna Centrale 07:15

Distance: 110.9km
Average speed: 102km/h

4 stops:
Cesena
Forli
Faenza
Bologna Centrale

This train, mapped: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2026-spring-tour_1361108#11/44.285496/11.958625

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#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 103 of 125
FR 8802
06:10 Rimini - Bologna Centrale 07:15
Trenitalia

Train type: AnsaldoBreda ETR 700, 8 carriages
⚡️ (3kV dc)
🚲: ⛔️
🦽: ✅ (lift on platform)
🛜: ✅ (requires registration - annoying)
🍽️: ✅
🧳: 😐 (lousy for large luggage)
🧽: 🙂
Interrail: 😐 (needs compulsory reservation, costs €13)

Here’s this morning’s #CrossBorderRail intro video https://peertube.netzbegruenung.de/w/iJnEA2Xj8XfLz4Qq5U3LnU

#CrossBorderRail live stream - 5/4/2026, 3:55:19 AM

Welcome to today's thread - #CrossBorderRail 2026 Tour Day 31 - 4 May - Rimini - Bologna - Milano - Lugano - Basel - Strasbourg

Borders already crossed:
Chiasso VG 🇨🇭 - Como S. Giovanni 🇮🇹
Basel St Johann 🇨🇭 - St. Louis 🇫🇷
Kehl 🇩🇪 - Krimmeri-Meinau 🇫🇷

First to Bologna for a breakfast meeting, then north across the Gotthard pass for the second time in just over a month. Today’s destination: Strasbourg to test a Régiolis.

Today's routes on the routes map:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2026-spring-tour_1361108#7/46.369674/9.920654

#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.

San Marino is at the top of a mountain. There’s nowhere to go beyond it. So a future line need not be more than Rimini - San Marino

But having said that, it’s *very hard* to do. You need loads of bridges, complicated junctions with traffic, a few land acquisitions

Is anyone going to find political will for that? Doubt it

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The only thing that could work would be like NStCM from Nyon to La Cure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyon%E2%80%93St-Cergue%E2%80%93Morez_Railway?wprov=sfti1

It’s something half way between a tram and a train (but not a tram-train)

It could be the earlier 950mm gauge or lay standard gauge tracks

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Nyon–St-Cergue–Morez Railway - Wikipedia

So in the end what should you DO here?

The need is obvious - San Marino has a traffic problem, especially in summertime

But could you fix the railway? 🤔

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Into Rimini the motorway blocks the alignment. But through the suburbs the alignment is largely free of buildings. It even looks like the hospital was built to keep the alignment free. #CrossBorderRail

Here‘s the third place the former #CrossBorderRail line crosses the border. Pic 1 San Marino side, pic 2 Italian side.

Here’s one of the border crossings. The drone is in Italy. The border is circled. The arrow through the outlet malls is where it used to run in San Marino. #CrossBorderRail