Welcome to #CrossBorderRail

Since 2022 I have been investigating international railways all over Europe. Find out what the issues are, and how we put the problems right!

#CrossBorderRail so far

399
Border lines
investigated

1086
Trains taken
166310km

229
Bike stages
5451km

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Live Blog – 2025 #CrossBorderRail Finale Day 2 – 8 June – Ceský Tešín – Cieszyn – Čadca – Zwardoń – Skalité – Kraľovany – Trstená

08.06.2025

Jump to: Updates | Summary videos | Borders & background | Music track | Route map | Photos Text updatesThere was a thread on Mastodon from this day of #CrossBorderRail – you can find the whole thread here  Jump to: Updates | Summary videos | Borders & background | Music track | […]

Live Blog – 2025 #CrossBorderRail Finale Day 1 – 7 June – Kolín – Lichkov – Jeseník – Głuchołazy – Krnov – Chuchelná – Bohumín – Ceský Tešín

07.06.2025

Jump to: Updates | Summary videos | Borders & background | Music track | Route map | Photos   Text updates There was a thread on Mastodon from this day of #CrossBorderRail – you can find the whole thread here   Jump to: Updates | Summary videos | Borders & background […]

Live Blog – 2025 #CrossBorderRail Finale Day 0 – 6 June – Ravières – Montbard – Paris – Frankfurt (Main) – Dresden – Praha – Kolín

06.06.2025

Jump to: Updates | Summary videos | Borders & background | Music track | Route map | Photos   Text updates There was a thread on Mastodon from this day of #CrossBorderRail – you can find the whole thread here   Jump to: Updates | Summary videos | Borders & background […]

The €2bn question: why has Eurostar still not ordered any new trains?

05.06.2025

Is there space for a further Channel Tunnel operator at the Temple Mills depot off the HS1 line at Stratford? The issue rumbles on, with ORR expected to make a decision on the issue by this autumn according to The Times today. But what if the extra capacity at the […]

Evaluating trains with emojis 🤔 – explaining what all the symbols mean

05.06.2025

Over the next two months during my #CrossBorderRail finale every one of the 145 trains I will be taking will be analysed with a Mastodon post like this (this is the predicted evaluation for tomorrow morning): #CentralEuropeFinale Train 1 of 145 TER 91371 06:39 Nuits-sous-Ravières – Montbard 06:48 SNCF for […]

#CrossBorderRail: what am I trying to find? And what’s the goal?

05.06.2025

15 June 2022, and it is Day 2 of my very first #CrossBorderRail tour, and it is a gorgeous sunny morning in Nijmegen in Netherlands. I unfold the Birdy bike and cycle off towards the 6th border of the project at that stage, the dismantled line between Nijmegen and Kleve […]

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All the #CrossBorderRail borders documented so far