2024 projects

Live Blog – #CrossBorderRail South East Europe Day -01 27 May 2024 – Arrival of night ferry, Malmö C – Stockholm, onto night ferry

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 Text updates are auto-generated from Mastodon […]

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

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 Text updates are auto-generated from Mastodon […]

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

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 […]

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

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 Text updates are auto-generated from Mastodon […]

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

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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#CrossBorderRail merchandise and fundraising update – ex-JŽ 441, symbol of a formerly interoperable railway

Previously in Yugoslavia, and today in Serbia, North Macedonia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina these locomotives are known as class 441. In Croatia they are class 1141. In Romania class 43 and 46. They are operated by Srbija Voz, TENT, MŽ, ŽFBH, ŽRS, HŽ, CFR and some private freight operators too. […]

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Back to Valenciennes, back to where #CrossBorderRail began – for the event to mark 20 years of the EU Agency for Railways

On 14 June 2022, on a crisp summer morning, I was the only passenger on an international train from Mons to Aulnoye-Aymeries, and would go on from there to the EU Agency for Railways in Valenciennes – the official start of the #CrossBorderRail project. Josef Doppelbauer, the boss of the […]

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Bantzenheim, a bike ride, a beer garden – on the eve of a protest at Breisach-Volgelsheim

It’s quite rare that anyone organises a kind of protest for the re-opening of an international railway line, but that is exactly what is happening on Sunday 14 April at Breisach-Volgelsheim, the part of the Freiburg-Colmar cross border railway line that is missing. You can find out all about the […]

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