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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A quick stock take before #CrossBorderRail starts again on 1st July
On 6th June, the #CrossBorderRail finale started – with the first part of the trip continuing until 24th June. Now, the day before the trip starts again it’s time for a quick recap of what happened so far, and what I learned from it. The map of the whole route, […]
#CrossBorderRail: what am I trying to find? And what’s the goal?
15 June 2022, and it is Day 2 of my very first #CrossBorderRail tour, and it is a gorgeous sunny morning in Nijmegen in Netherlands. I unfold the Birdy bike and cycle off towards the 6th border of the project at that stage, the dismantled line between Nijmegen and Kleve […]
Planning with disruption in mind – would you attempt this trip?
On Friday to start my #CrossBorderRail project I need to get from Ravières (Bourgogne, France) to Praha (Czechia), and this is the connection DB (the best rail planning site) shows me: 06:39 Nuits-sous-Ravières SNCF TER91371 06:49 Montbard 15min to change 07:04 Montbard SNCF TGV 6760 08:09 Paris Gare de Lyon […]
#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 […]
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 […]