Live Blog – #CrossBorderRail 2026 Spring Tour Day 34 – 5 June – Paris – Liège – Maastricht – Aachen

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18933 / RE18 (18933)
11:06 Liège Guillemins - Maastricht 11:45

Distance: 31.4km
Average speed: 48km/h

5 stops:
Bressoux
Vise
Eijsden
Maastricht Randwyck
Maastricht

This train, mapped: umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/c

#CrossBorderRail 2026 Spring Tour
#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.

Assessment from earlier...

2026 Spring Tour Train 130 of 134
18933 / RE18 (18933)
11:06 Liège Guillemins - Maastricht 11:45
Arriva NL

Train type: Stadler EMU, 3 short carriages
⚡️ (3kV dc, 1.5kV dc)
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (step free)
🛜: ✅
🍽️: ⛔
🧳: 🙂️
🧽: 🙂️
Interrail: 🙂 (accepted)

Drielandentrein in Liege

2026 Spring Tour Train 129 of 134
EST 9411
07:45 Paris Nord - Liège Guillemins 10:09
Eurostar

Train type: Alstom Thalys PBKA EMU, 2 power cars. 8 articulated short trailers
⚡️ (25kV ac, 3kV dc)
🚲: ⛔️
🦽: ✅ (lift on platform)
🛜: ✅
🍽️: ✅
🧳: 🙂 (this is a redesigned one, better than the older units)️
🧽: 🙂
Interrail: 😐 (needs compulsory reservation, costs *a lot*, so I am not on Interrail today)

Thalys trains at Paris Nord

EST 9411
07:45 Paris Nord - Liège Guillemins 10:09

Distance: 418.1km
Average speed: 174km/h

2 stops:
Bruxelles Midi
Liège Guillemins

This train, mapped: umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/c

#CrossBorderRail 2026 Spring Tour
#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.

2026 Spring Tour Train 129 of 134
EST 9411
07:45 Paris Nord - Liège Guillemins 10:09
Eurostar

Train type: Alstom Thalys PBKA EMU, 2 power cars. 8 articulated short trailers
⚡️ (25kV ac, 3kV dc)
🚲: ⛔️
🦽: ✅ (lift on platform)
🛜: ✅
🍽️: ✅
🧳: 🙂 (this is a redesigned one, better than the older units)️
🧽: 🙂
Interrail: 😐 (needs compulsory reservation, costs *a lot*, so I am not on Interrail today)

PBKA trains at Paris Nord

Here's today's intro video peertube.netzbegruenung.de/w/r

And today is a big day for @erpu !

#CrossBorderRail live stream - 6/5/2026, 5:31:46 AM
#CrossBorderRail live stream - 6/5/2026, 5:31:46 AM

Welcome to today's thread - 2026 Tour Day 34 - 5 Jun - Paris - Liège - Maastricht - Aachen

New borders:
None

Borders already crossed:
Lille 🇫🇷 - Bruxelles 🇧🇪 HSL
Visé 🇧🇪 - Eijsden 🇳🇱
Herzogenrath 🇩🇪 - Eygelshoven Markt 🇳🇱

To Maastricht to attend the European Passengers Federation conference, and also to complete the founding documents for European Rail Passengers Union

Today's routes on the routes map:
umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/c

Paris Gare du Nord

So that’s nice 🙂

The borders visited total has risen from 420 to 423 without having gone anywhere, just through reclassification

However I’ve found 3 more borders I’ve also not been to

is never done!

crossborderrail.eu

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Anyway, today's is finally close to its end

9 trains

2 tiny delays (+3 La Chaux-de-Fonds - Glovelier, +5 Dijon - Nuits-sous-Ravières)

5 Bombardier AGC EMU/DMU/Bi-mode MU
2 Alstom Régiolis
2 Stadler EMUs
(and you know which were the best without me telling you)

And, strangest of all, NOT A SINGLE TICKET CHECK ALL DAY. Across 9 trains, 7 TERs in France and 2 regional trains in Switzerland

Meanwhile all the on Fedi "You never went to Osoblaha?" (population: 1016) 😳

No, because the line never crossed the border 🙂 And because it now might I better go!

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New borders:

Borders already crossed:

EPF 

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