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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In December 2014 I went to a funeral for a train – the EuroCity “Wavel” train between Berlin and Wrocław was axed, and then MEP Michael Cramer organised a small ceremony to mark its passing. But in 2016 Wrocław was European Capital of Culture, but there was no convenient way […]
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In the past twelve months I have: Investigated 131 cross border railways in Europe Travelled 62716 km on 425 trains Cycled 1662 km in 62 different places Travelled 2191 km on 20 buses I’ve now updated my “All the borders” #CrossBorderRail map as well, to reflect all of that. Pink […]
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It has been only a matter of days since my Germany borders project concluded, and I am off again! All of the extra journeys I am about to make are mapped here. First 26-28 May I am making a 3000km journey from Berlin via Kraslice to Klagenfurt, from Klagenfurt via […]
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The train journeys for the Germany borders project 2023 are now done. You can find the complete route in a Spreadsheet here, and mapped here. 67 trains, more than 60 of them using a Deutschlandticket, and more than 500km on the Birdy folding bicycle and no serious delays or mishaps. […]
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A selection of the photos from the main #CrossBorderRail Project 2022 have now been uploaded to Flickr – all the albums are here. So far there are 1154 pictures total so far, of railways, stations, and other odds and ends, from 26 countries (all European Union countries except IE, MT, […]
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#CrossBorderRail in 2022 comprised 40 main route days, and a few extra days from Berlin to the Poland and Czechia borders – and each and every day of the project I wrote two real postcards. One each day went to the European Commissioner for Transport, Adina Vălean, and one went […]
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In the summer of 2022 I crossed all of the internal borders of the European Union (and Switzerland, Norway and Liechtenstein) you can cross by train. That ended up with 95 borders crossed (you can find all the routes I took here). But that is long way away from crossing […]
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Guest on #RailNatter with Gareth Dennis – 4 Jan 2023 Han har krydset alle EU’s grænser i tog i 2022. Nu er han mest af alt bare sur Information – 3 Jan 2023 – Mathias Sonne Aktivisten Jon Worth har i 2022 kørt Europa tyndt og krydset alle europæiske […]
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Member of the European Parliament for the Swedish Greens Jakop Dalunde has long been one of the very best EU politicians about railway policy, and I even met him for a short chat about my #CrossBorderRail project right back on Day 1 in June. The picture here is of us […]
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