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 – #CrossBorderRail South East Europe Day -02 26 May 2024 – Ravières – Montbard – Paris – Köln – Hamburg – Travemünde, onto night ferry

26.05.2024

Jump to: Text updates | Summary videos | Latest photos | Today’s background | Today’s route The best way to follow #CrossBorderRail as the trip develops is on social mediaThere are always posts on Mastodon (@jon@gruene.social & #CrossBorderRail) Today’s live text updates[srr_feed urls=”https://gruene.social/@jon.rss” filter_name=”26May” filter_type=”show” thumbnail_position=”align_right” thumbnail_size=”150px” scroll_height=”400px” show_date=”1″ ticker_speed=”8″ date_timezone=”Europe/Berlin” page_size=”4″ […]

#CrossBorderRail South East Europe starts 26 May – how to follow the project

23.05.2024

Sunday 26 May, at about 6am, I will hop on the faithful Birdy folding bike and cycle from Ravières to Montbard – the first of about 125 stages of #CrossBorderRail. Over the 5 weeks that follow I will travel more than 13000km, and investigate 35 new railway borders, most of […]

Live Blog – #CrossBorderRail 2024 Extra Days 7 May – La Ciotat – Nice – Ventimiglia – Limone – Breil-sur-Roya – Nice – La Ciotat

07.05.2024

Jump to: Text updates | Summary videos | Latest photos | Today’s background | Today’s route   The best way to follow #CrossBorderRail as the trip develops is on social mediaThere are always posts on Mastodon (@jon@gruene.social & #CrossBorderRail)   Today’s live text updates [srr_feed urls=”https://gruene.social/@jon.rss” filter_name=”7_May” filter_type=”show” thumbnail_position=”align_right” thumbnail_size=”150px” […]

Come along for #CrossBorderRail compact – Zagreb-Sarajevo, via the Croatia-Serbia border at Tovarnik

03.05.2024

6 hours by bus, or 6 hours 45 minutes by train? I’d take the train every time. More space, more comfort, freedom to move around. But were my route Zagreb to Beograd – two of the most significant cities in South East Europe – then I would be out of […]

Another #CrossBorderRail success – timetables for Irun-Hendaia Euskotren are finally in international timetable searches

02.05.2024

A key message in all of my #CrossBorderRail work has been that some problems ought to be really easy to solve. The really, really, really easy ones ought to be the places where trains run, and even run with decent timetables, but there are data sharing problems – meaning the […]

Live Blog – #CrossBorderRail 2024 Extra Days 26 April – Valenciennes – Quiévrain – Gussignies – Aulnoye-Aymeries – Paris – Nuits-sous-Ravières

26.04.2024

Jump to: Text updates | Summary videos | Latest photos | Today’s background | Today’s route   The best way to follow #CrossBorderRail as the trip develops is on social mediaThere are always posts on Mastodon (@jon@gruene.social & #CrossBorderRail)   Today’s live text updates This day of live coverage is […]

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All the #CrossBorderRail borders documented so far