#CrossChannelRail - 16 March-5 April - crowd funding now open!

The first project in 2025 is slightly different to the #CrossBorderRail projects to date. Rather than multiple borders, this time I am assessing the potential to run trains to the UK from destinations in Continental Europe, and gauge whether better use of the Channel Tunnel for through trains is possible. Crowd funding has started, events are planned!

#CrossBorderRail so far

288

#CrossBorderRail lines
visited and investigated

125204km

on 842
trains

3970km

by bike, across
156 bike stages

9484km

by bus, ferry
and car

News

08.03.2025

Nothing beyond London? Why #CrossChannelRail is not going to Birmingham, Nottingham or Newcastle

It was inevitable the question would come: why is my #CrossChannelRail project taking me nowhere in the UK other than London, and along the HS1 line between London and the Channel Tunnel? The simple answer is that I had to […]

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07.03.2025

#CrossChannelRail is GO! The future of long distance services through the Channel Tunnel

For the past three summers, #CrossBorderRail journeys have happened every summer. So far I have been to 288 international railway lines in Europe, and – with a bit of experience now! – I know how to run these projects. But, […]

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21.01.2025

A story of two tunnels: Kriva Palanka to Gyushevo, and the Channel Tunnel

When I went to Kumanovo in June of 2024 and found a railway station half complete, I must admit I did not think trains would run there any time soon. But this week I was proven wrong – the first […]

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17.01.2025

Provisional planning: #CrossBorderRail the EU’s eastern borders June 2025

While the #CrossChannelRail project for March-April is my main short term task, I have also been wondering about “completing” the #CrossBorderRail project in 2025. There are about 80 railway borders in Europe that I have not examined yet that are […]

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11.12.2024

When will the new Subotica – Novi Sad rail line open? There’s no dodging a decision now

In the summer of 2021, in between COVID lockdowns and needing all sorts of paperwork as a result, I made a trip from Berlin to Beograd, Serbia. I will only come to your event, I told the conference organisers, if […]

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All the borders crossed during #CrossBorderRail 2022-2024

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