Germany

Live Blog – 2025 #CrossBorderRail Finale Day 0 – 6 June – Ravières – Montbard – Paris – Frankfurt (Main) – Dresden – Praha – Kolín

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: 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 […]

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Podcasts and webinars galore about the future of the Channel Tunnel (thanks to #CrossChannelRail)

As I am still finalising the report from my #CrossChannelRail project in March and April, it has not stopped me getting the message out about the future of long distance through services through the Channel Tunnel, and examining the sort of lingering feeling of the tunnel somehow being an amazing […]

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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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Live Blog – #CrossChannelRail Day 11 – 27 March – Mönchengladbach – Köln – Liège – Den Haag

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 & #CrossChannelRail)   Today’s live text updates Link to the archive of today’s […]

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Live Blog – #CrossChannelRail Day 10 – 26 March – Kehl – Frankfurt – Frankfurt Flughafen – Köln – Düsseldorf – Mönchengladbach

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 & #CrossChannelRail)   Today’s live text updates Link to the archive of today’s […]

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Live Blog – #CrossChannelRail Day 9 – 25 March – München – Stuttgart – Karlsruhe – Strasbourg – Kehl

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 & #CrossChannelRail)   Today’s live text updates Link to the archive of today’s […]

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Live Blog – #CrossChannelRail Day 8 – 24 March – Delémont – Bern – Zürich – München

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 & #CrossChannelRail)   Today’s live text updates Link to the archive of today’s […]

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