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Quick mid August stock take – statistics, photos, and a conclusions tour plan for the autumn

A week ago the #CrossBorderRail 2025 finale ended, and I am writing this post back in Ravières, and this is a kind of quick stock take. The finale encompassed 25000km on 168 trains, more than 1000km on the Birdy folding bike, and a mass of experience and lessons learned that […]

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Live Blog – 2025 #CrossBorderRail Finale Day 40 – 30 July – Optima Express through Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia

Jump to: Updates | Summary videos | Borders & background | Music track | Route map | Photos   Text updates There was a thread on Mastodon from this day of #CrossBorderRail – you can find the whole thread here   Jump to: Updates | Summary videos | Borders & background […]

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Live Blog – 2025 #CrossBorderRail Finale Day 38 – 24 July – Dobrich – Poveljanovo – Karnobat – Dimitrovgrad, onto night train

Jump to: Updates | Summary videos | Borders & background | Music track | Route map | Photos   Text updates There was a thread on Mastodon from this day of #CrossBorderRail – you can find the whole thread here   Jump to: Updates | Summary videos | Borders & background […]

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Live Blog – 2025 #CrossBorderRail Finale Day 37 – 23 July – Tulcea – Medgidia – Constanța – Negru Vodă – Dobrich

Jump to: Updates | Summary videos | Borders & background | Music track | Route map | Photos   Text updates There was a thread on Mastodon from this day of #CrossBorderRail – you can find the whole thread here   Jump to: Updates | Summary videos | Borders & background […]

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#CrossBorderRail the finale 2025: route now set, journey starts 6th June

Three short years ago when planning the first tour that was known as #CrossBorderRail, little did I know this would be the start of a project that would become a good part of my professional life in the years in between. That list of 95 rail borders investigated in 2022 […]

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Provisional planning: #CrossBorderRail the EU’s eastern borders June 2025

While the #CrossChannelRail project for March-April is my main short term task, I have also been wondering about “completing” the #CrossBorderRail project in 2025. There are about 80 railway borders in Europe that I have not examined yet that are worth looking at, and the vast majority of them are […]

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The best photos from #CrossBorderRail South East Europe 2024

Finally I am done sorting and uploading photos from #CrossBorderRail South East Europe 2024 In this post there is one photo from each of the days, and a link to the full Flickr album from that day – to give an idea of this weird and wonderful journey! Day -02 […]

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