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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 Text updates are auto-generated from Mastodon […]

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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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Live Blog – 2024 Extra Day 21 March – Berzée – Mariembourg – Hirson – 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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Live Blog – 2024 Extra Day 20 March – Bruxelles – Essen – Rosendaal – Kapellen – Charleroi – Berzée

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 media – there are always posts on Mastodon (@jon@gruene.social & #CrossBorderRail) and Bluesky (@jonworth.eu & Custom Feed)   Today’s live […]

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Live blog – Autumn 2023 Day 14, 29 Sep, Brugge – Hasselt – Maastricht – Roermond – Mönchengladbach – Köln – Berlin

Jump to: Text updates | Summary videos | Latest photos | Today’s background | Today’s route   Text updates This day was live-tooted on Mastodon, and the updates only showed here on the site on the day itself. You can still find the Mastodon thread from the day here: https://gruene.social/@jon/111146491962210147 […]

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Live blog – Autumn 2023 Day 13, 28 Sep, s’Hertogenbosch – Tilburg – Turnhout – Brugge

Jump to: Text updates | Summary videos | Latest photos | Today’s background | Today’s route   Text updates This day was live-tooted on Mastodon, and the updates only showed here on the site on the day itself. You can still find the Mastodon thread from the day here: https://gruene.social/@jon/111141206857975579 […]

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Live blog – Autumn 2023 Day 11, 16 Sep, Grävenwiesbach – Bad Homburg – Frankfurt(Main) – Wustermark – Berlin

Jump to: Text updates | Summary videos | Latest photos | Today’s background | Today’s route   Text updates This day was live-tooted on Mastodon, and the updates only showed here on the site on the day itself. You can still find the Mastodon thread from the day here: https://gruene.social/@jon/111072954711151714 […]

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Live blog – Autumn 2023 Day 02, 1 Sep, Bruxelles – Paris – Morlaix – Roscoff, onto ferry

Jump to: Text updates | Summary videos | Latest photos | Today’s background | Today’s route   Text updates This day was live-tooted on Mastodon, and the updates only showed here on the site on the day itself. You can still find the Mastodon thread from the day here: https://gruene.social/@jon/110988843369123072 […]

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Live blog – Autumn 2023 Day 01, 30 Aug – Nuits-sous-Ravières – Condé-sur-l’Escaut – Peruwelz – Bruxelles

Jump to: Text updates | Summary videos | Latest photos | Today’s background | Today’s route   Text updates This day was live-tooted on Mastodon, and the updates only showed here on the site on the day itself. You can still find the Mastodon thread from the day here: https://gruene.social/@jon/110976542949738607 […]

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Border stations in national tariff systems – a simple change with a meaningful impact

At opposite ends of Germany there are two cross border railways where tickets for the trains are wonderfully simple – from Gronau (Nordrhein-Westfalen) to Enschede (Netherlands), and from Freilassing (Bayern) to Salzburg (Austria). At two other borders – Kehl (Baden-Württemberg) to Strasbourg (France), and Forst Lausitz (Brandenburg) to Żary (Poland) […]

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