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 […]
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Hectic 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 🇸🇪 […]
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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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