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A line that crosses a border multiple times (like Bihać 🇧🇦 - Knin 🇭🇷) is listed only once, and there is a new category of markers called Transit Markers that simply shows the border crossings, with a different icon, and there are 35 such Transit Markers
If there is a junction somewhere along the way (as there is Hagenwerder 🇩🇪 - Krzewina Zgorzelecka 🇵🇱 - Hirschfelde 🇩🇪) then those are still counted separately
Active line, no passenger service - visited by 🚆 (3) Active line, no passenger service - visited by 🚲 (44) Active line, no passenger service - visited by 🚌🚙 (13)
Active line, no passenger service - visited total (70)
Active line, no passenger service - not yet visited (4)
Arriving at Mulhouse (but NOT at Basel) they warn you to not open the doors before the train stops. But you can’t open the doors as they’re centrally locked. All of this is just SNCF covering itself, legally. It’s basically “if you push the button too soon it’s you liable not us”
Ok, I checked. In TGV Lyria anyway they’ve got no problem with you locking your bag to a luggage rack (note this is one SBB Lyria train manager’s opinion - don’t consider it a hard rule!)
And his SNCF counterpart was excellent and friendly and acknowledged it is a design problem (racks badly placed)
Meanwhile about the #CrossBorderRail train into Vatican City: I emailed the museum who offered the train as part of a tour, asking if the suspension was temporary or permanent. The answer… doesn’t answer! 🤷♂️
I was surprised about that a few weeks ago when I wanted to get a reservation for the TGV to Lille. I really had to visit the next boutique to get a reservation. Funniest thing was that the self-booking booths in the boutiques have the same booking system, which makes this even more ridiculous
Before trainwide door locking was a thing (because there was no cable connecting the carriages), there was a thing called "wagenautarke Türsicherung", which locks the carriage doors when it is moving faster than 5km/h.
I do not know the internal SNCF procedures but I would guess that this maybe is a historical remnant because there are still carriages with this technique (or the trainwide locking is broken).
Hah! I missed you in Basel by a few days, I was there on Saturday. I traveled Nancy - Strasbourg - Basel - Milano - Bari (and further by boat to Igoumenitsa), inspired by your trip reports.
this whole project was really insightful to watch. thanks a lot for your work. given how much room for improvement there is for an issue that is so well aligned with european integration in general the level of neglect by EU and member states is disturbing at least.
Thanks a lot John for all the work you’ve been doing! I really enjoyed your posts here on mastodon. There is a lot of work to be done in terms of cross border train lines in Europe and I hope the day will come where things will actually improve on a larger scale.
There used to run some trains from there to the Papal gardens, but since the beginning of this year this is gone. Maybe forever. Deo volente (how ironic) it will return so us mortals can go on a pilgrimage for this international railway line.
Good that this train gets a top score; it's a 10 hour journey. The terrain should be interesting, Maybe a few piccies? Fingers crossed for a successful connection.
Congrats on completing this huge journey! It was very fun to read your updates every day for the past weeks. Hope you have a good time off in France now!
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From Voice of Korea. http://vok.rep.kp/ind…/detail_com/comde/iee250702005/57/en There is a tableland called Unryong (Silvery Dragon) Hill in the Komdok area in the northern part of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
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Jon Worth
in reply to Jon Worth • • •The long route home. Hopefully without mishap!
Fingers crossed a crucial 14 min change in Zürich works!
Jon Worth
in reply to Jon Worth • • •Here's today's #CrossBorderRail music track
Welcome Home
Selina & Hanspeter
Thanks @K1ngdaKa88 & @krist for this one - a SBB commissioned song.
youtube.com/watch?v=4OARVJUQB1…
SBB «Welcome Home» (OFFICIAL)
YouTubeJon Worth
in reply to Jon Worth • • •#CrossBorderRail Finale Train 166 of 169
REX 3
04:57 Wien Praterstern - Wien Meidling 05:14
ÖBB
Train type: Siemens Desiro ML EMU, 2x 3 carriages
⚡️ (15kV ac)
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (step free, hefty on board lift if not)
🛜: ✅ (and it works)
🍽️: ⛔️
🧳: 🙂
🧽: 🙂
🎫 Interrail: 🙂 (accepted)
Jon Worth
in reply to Jon Worth • • •REX 3
04:57 Wien Praterstern - Wien Meidling 05:14
Distance: 8.5km
Average speed: 32km/h
6 stops:
Wien Mitte
Wien Rennweg
Wien Quartier Belvedere
Wien Hbf (Bahnsteige 1-2)
Wien Matzleinsdorfer Platz
Wien Meidling
This train, mapped: umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/c…
#CrossBorderRail 2025 Finale
uMapJon Worth
in reply to Jon Worth • • •Here’s this morning‘s intro video peertube.netzbegruenung.de/w/o…
4 trains today and a long trip back to Ravières
Jon Worth
in reply to Jon Worth • • •#CrossBorderRail Finale Train 167 of 169
RJX 368
05:35 Wien Meidling - Zürich HB (diverted via Schwarzach) 15:20
ÖBB
Train type: Siemens 1116 Taurus locomotive, fixed 7 carriage formation, driving control car
⚡️ (15kV ac)
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (lift on board)
🛜: ✅
🍽️: ✅
🧳: 🙂
🧽: 🙂 (spotless - Railjet cleanliness is generally excellent)
🎫 Interrail: 🙂 (accepted)
Top score!
Jon Worth
in reply to Jon Worth • • •RJX 368
05:35 Wien Meidling - Zürich HB (via Schwarzach) 15:20
Distance: 836km
Average speed: 86km/h
15 stops:
St.Pölten Hbf
Linz/Donau Hbf
Salzburg Hbf
Bischofshofen
Schwarzach im Pongau-St.Veit
Wörgl Hbf
Innsbruck Hbf
Ötztal
Landeck-Zams
St.Anton am Arlberg
Bludenz
Feldkirch
Buchs SG
Sargans
Zürich HB
This train, mapped: umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/c…
#CrossBorderRail 2025 Finale
uMapJon Worth
in reply to Jon Worth • • •Ah ha
Perfect! 😀
The only #CrossBorderRail line with passenger traffic, sort of, that I am now missing is...
Roma San Pietro 🇮🇹 - Citta Vaticano 🇻🇦
There's probably no god, now stop worrying and enjoy your #CrossBorderRail! 🎉
umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/c…
(and yes, it is temporarily closed, and yes, it only runs once a week normally)
#CrossBorderRail All The Borders
uMapJon Worth
in reply to Jon Worth • • •And there are four active #CrossBorderRail lines where the track is legally active, but there are no passenger trains, that I am missing
Eglaine 🇱🇻 - Obeliai 🇱🇹
Renge 🇱🇻 - Mažeikiai 🇱🇹
Rybnitsa 🇲🇩 (Transnistria) - Klymentove 🇺🇦
Uzhhorod 🇺🇦 - Maťovské Vojkovce 🇸🇰
Jon Worth
in reply to Jon Worth • • •So I have been to all bar 5 active railway #CrossBorderRail lines between all of these
ALL 🇪🇺 countries (except 🇲🇹, 🇨🇾 that have no railways)
🇳🇴
🇨🇭
🇱🇮
🇬🇧
🇷🇸
🇧🇦
🇲🇰
🇲🇪
🇦🇱
🇲🇩
🇺🇦
I am missing
🇻🇦
🇬🇪
🇦🇲
🇦🇿
For political reasons I won't go to
🇷🇺
🇧🇾
so those aren't counted
🇹🇷 to 🇪🇺 is covered, to 🇬🇪🇦🇲 it's not
Jon Worth
in reply to Jon Worth • • •There are however still 67 disused and dismantled #CrossBorderRail lines I have not yet been to...
Although only a handful have any prospect of re-activation
So I am not going to try to go to those!
Jon Worth
in reply to Jon Worth • • •So I have used the long trip today, and reasonable WiFi, to update my map of all of Europe's rail borders - of all sorts
Pink pins are where I have been, grey pins are the ones I am missing
Zoomable map: umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/c…
#CrossBorderRail All The Borders
uMapJon Worth
in reply to Jon Worth • • •I have changed how I list these borders now
A line that crosses a border multiple times (like Bihać 🇧🇦 - Knin 🇭🇷) is listed only once, and there is a new category of markers called Transit Markers that simply shows the border crossings, with a different icon, and there are 35 such Transit Markers
If there is a junction somewhere along the way (as there is Hagenwerder 🇩🇪 - Krzewina Zgorzelecka 🇵🇱 - Hirschfelde 🇩🇪) then those are still counted separately
Jon Worth
in reply to Jon Worth • • •Stats are as follows:
Active passenger line - visited by 🚆 (135)
Active passenger line - visited by 🚲 (42)
Active passenger line - visited by 🚌🚙 (4)
Active passenger line - visited total (181)
Active passenger line - not yet visited (1)
Jon Worth
in reply to Jon Worth • • •Active line, no passenger service - visited by 🚆 (3)
Active line, no passenger service - visited by 🚲 (44)
Active line, no passenger service - visited by 🚌🚙 (13)
Active line, no passenger service - visited total (70)
Active line, no passenger service - not yet visited (4)
Jon Worth
in reply to Jon Worth • • •Dismantled or disused line - visited by 🚲 (85)
Dismantled or disused line - visited by 🚌🚙 (4)
Dismantled or disused line - visited total (89)
Dismantled or disused lines - not yet visited (66)
Jon Worth
in reply to Jon Worth • • •Narrow Gauge or Other Special Lines - visited (10)
Narrow Gauge or Other Special Lines - not visited (28)
Tramways - visited (20)
Tramways - not visited (23)
Other (18) - visited
Jon Worth
in reply to Jon Worth • • •So that gives a total of
3️⃣8️⃣8️⃣
#CrossBorderRail lines visited!
🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉
(Edited: found I had counted a Czech border wrong, so it's 388 not 390!)
Jon Worth
in reply to Jon Worth • • •#CrossBorderRail Finale Train 168 of 169
TGV 9226
15:34 Zürich HB - Dijon Ville 18:00
TGV Lyria
Train type: Alstom TGV Euroduplex, 8 short double deck carriages
⚡️ (15kV ac, 25kV ac, 1.5kV dc)
🚲: ⛔️
🦽: ✅ (step free then lift down inside)
🛜: ⛔️ (installed but won’t work)
🍽️: ✅
🧳: ☹️ (TGV Duplex so awful)
🧽: 🙂
🎫 Interrail: 😐 (needs compulsory reservation, costs €29 - which is a scandalous price)
Jon Worth
in reply to Jon Worth • • •TGV 9226
15:34 Zürich HB - Dijon Ville 18:00
Distance: 327.6km
Average speed: 135km/h
3 stops:
Basel SBB
Mulhouse Ville
Dijon Ville
This train, mapped: umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/c…
#CrossBorderRail 2025 Finale
uMapJon Worth
in reply to Jon Worth • • •We’ve now had 6 or 7 announcements warning us about pickpockets and keeping an eye on our belongings
But on a TGV Duplex it’s hard as luggage racks are beyond the end doors of carriages
I *could* lock my bag to the luggage rack, but I imagine that’s not allowed as it’s a terrorist risk?
Jon Worth
in reply to Jon Worth • • •Jon Worth
in reply to Jon Worth • • •Ok, I checked. In TGV Lyria anyway they’ve got no problem with you locking your bag to a luggage rack (note this is one SBB Lyria train manager’s opinion - don’t consider it a hard rule!)
And his SNCF counterpart was excellent and friendly and acknowledged it is a design problem (racks badly placed)
Jon Worth
in reply to Jon Worth • • •Jon Worth
in reply to Jon Worth • • •#CrossBorderRail Finale Train 169 of 169
TER 91358
18:33 Dijon Ville - Nuits-sous-Ravières 19:19
SNCF for TER Mobigo
Train type: Bombardier AGC Bi-mode MU 4 short carriages
⚡️ (1.5kV dc)
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (step free if station allows)
🛜: ⛔️
🍽️: ⛔️
🧳: 🙂
🧽: 🙂 (clean today)
🎫 Interrail: 🙂 (accepted)
Jon Worth
in reply to Jon Worth • • •TER 91358
18:33 Dijon Ville - Nuits-sous-Ravières 19:19
Distance: 89.4km
Average speed: 117km/h
3 stops:
Les Laumes-Alesia
Montbard
Nuits-sous-Ravieres
This train, mapped: umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/c…
#CrossBorderRail 2025 Finale
uMapJon Worth
in reply to Jon Worth • • •Aaanndd SNCF’s loathing of Interrail hits new heights!
SNCF Connect hasn’t been able to sell Interrail / Eurail seat reservations for some while, but it worked at SNCF Grandes Lignes ticket machines
I’ve just checked at Dijon Ville: that has NOW BEEN REMOVED AS AN OPTION
Jon Worth
in reply to Jon Worth • • •I wanted to check I wasn’t at fault so I went to find a staff member
By luck they were helping a Spanish Interrailer at that moment and couldn’t get him the reservation and were likewise perplexed
I explained to all of them they’ll just have to use the third party Rail Europe website instead!
Jon Worth
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in reply to Jon Worth • • •Jean-Baptiste "JBQ" Quéru
in reply to Jon Worth • • •tops
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in reply to Jon Worth • • •Moof! 🏳️🌈
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in reply to Jon Worth • • •Nils Jansen
in reply to Jon Worth • • •As far as I have experienced it as a tourist, french railway ticketing is a nightmare from top to bottom.
I ride trains because I like trains.
TER ticket machines and the sncf-connect website however put that to the test in many ways.
Niklas
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in reply to Jon Worth • • •what??? seriously? 🤦
from my notes, taken a few weeks ago: > when the machine asks “do you have a reduction or pass?” select “other” then pick “interrail or eurail”
on the french screen (your pic) you should tap “autres réductions” for them to show. Did that really disappear?
Megan Lynch (she/her)
in reply to Jon Worth • • •Ela - TechnicalOtter
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in reply to Jon Worth • • •Jurassic Park - Locking Mechanism
YouTubeclarity
in reply to Jon Worth • • •Before trainwide door locking was a thing (because there was no cable connecting the carriages), there was a thing called "wagenautarke Türsicherung", which locks the carriage doors when it is moving faster than 5km/h.
I do not know the internal SNCF procedures but I would guess that this maybe is a historical remnant because there are still carriages with this technique (or the trainwide locking is broken).
Dan 🌈
in reply to Jon Worth • • •lebochequirit
in reply to Jon Worth • • •Jean-Baptiste "JBQ" Quéru
in reply to Jon Worth • • •evilbwil
in reply to Jon Worth • • •given how much room for improvement there is for an issue that is so well aligned with european integration in general the level of neglect by EU and member states is disturbing at least.
Electric Monk
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in reply to Jon Worth • • •There used to run some trains from there to the Papal gardens, but since the beginning of this year this is gone. Maybe forever. Deo volente (how ironic) it will return so us mortals can go on a pilgrimage for this international railway line.
(reupload)
Eat This Podcast
in reply to Jon Worth • • •Will Deakin
in reply to Jon Worth • • •« Ce n'est pas Dieu qui a créé l'homme, mais l'homme qui a créé Dieu. » Voltaire
Même si on aurait ici plus besoin des chemins de fer que de Dieu...
miniBill (Leonardo)
in reply to Jon Worth • • •William Bell
in reply to Jon Worth • • •SaareMartha
in reply to Jon Worth • • •The terrain should be interesting, Maybe a few piccies?
Fingers crossed for a successful connection.
Pepijn
in reply to Jon Worth • • •Krist van Besien
in reply to Jon Worth • • •Lukas 🎢 🇩🇪
in reply to Jon Worth • • •Oh and waving over to you when you pass through Switzerland! 👋😇
Lord egeltje 🦔 🇪🇺
in reply to Jon Worth • • •CHZK
in reply to Jon Worth • • •