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Live Blog – #CrossBorderRail South East Europe Day 00 28 May 2024 – Arrival of night ferry, Turku – Kupittaa – Helsinki
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Read MoreLive Blog – #CrossBorderRail South East Europe Day -01 27 May 2024 – Arrival of night ferry, Malmö C – Stockholm, onto night ferry
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Read MoreLive Blog – #CrossBorderRail South East Europe Day -02 26 May 2024 – Ravières – Montbard – Paris – Köln – Hamburg – Travemünde, onto night ferry
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Read More#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 […]
Read MoreLive 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 […]
Read MoreCome along for #CrossBorderRail compact – Zagreb-Sarajevo, via the Croatia-Serbia border at Tovarnik
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 […]
Read MoreLive Blog – #CrossBorderRail 2024 Extra Days 26 April – Valenciennes – Quiévrain – Gussignies – Aulnoye-Aymeries – Paris – Nuits-sous-Ravières
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Read MoreCompact tech solutions for #CrossBorderRail – abandoning the laptop, and investing in a foldable HB066 keyboard
With #CrossBorderRail South East Europe now just over a month away, my thoughts are turning to what (not) to take with me. This year I am going to be much more radical in terms of packing – I am not going to take a laptop with me. That’s 1.4kg removed […]
Read More#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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