The final day trip of the #CrossBorderRail project – CD-CZ-PL as explained here – was completed on 18 August. And I have no more days left on my Interrail pass. So that means that all the travel for the project for the summer of 2022 is now done. Everything has […]
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From the sublime to the slightly ridiculous: trip timetable changes in Switzerland and Romania
Max Wyss – one of the excellent community of Swiss railway nerds on Twitter – messaged me with a suggestion: why not route via Rapperswil to St Gallen on Day 23 of #CrossBorderRail. That would mean taking in part of the Voralpen Express run by Südostbahn. The new Stadler built trains […]
Read MoreHectic planning as the start of the project draws closer!
The start of #CrossBorderRail is now less than 3 weeks away, and the planning is reaching a hectic phase! The biggest news is that it is now possible to signup for the events in these locations: Berlin 🇩🇪 (pre-departure) Brussels 🇧🇪 Valenciennes 🇫🇷 Den Haag 🇳🇱 København 🇩🇰 Stockholm 🇸🇪 […]
Read MoreOpen source mapping tools
One of the headaches when planning the #CrossBorderRail trip was to be able to map railway routes adequately accurately. The number of railway routing tools available in public is considerably fewer than for road transport! But on this – as on so many other railway topics – it was a […]
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