It’s taken a bit of planning to get the events on 13 May right, but now everything is set – come and discuss and learn about international railways and transport politics in Nürnberg and in Bamberg! At 15:00 on Saturday 13 May I will visit the DB Museum Nürnberg, and […]
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In 2022 my #CrossBorderRail project was mostly live tweeted. But then Elon Musk broke Twitter, and I have had to work out how to revise my digital communication strategy for the 2023 project. This blog post explains how I intend to do it! But before I start, a word about […]
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On 2nd May – just two weeks from now – I set off on my latest #CrossBorderRail adventure. This time I am going back to all of Germany’s rail borders that I did not visit in 2022. You can find the background about the 2023 project here. This post gives […]
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Jump to: Text updates | Summary videos | Latest photos | Today’s background | Today’s route Text updates Text updates are auto-generated from Mastodon – follow me on Mastodon here: gruene.social/@jon Jump to: Text updates | Summary videos | Latest photos | Today’s background | Today’s route […]
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Jump to: Text updates | Summary videos | Latest photos | Today’s background | Today’s route Text updates This day of live coverage is done. You can find the thread from the day here: https://gruene.social/@jon/110145856584433871 Jump to: Text updates | Summary videos | Latest photos | Today’s background […]
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The reason I am doing my #CrossBorderRail all the Germany borders project in May 2023 is to test the new Deutschlandticket, the 49 Euro flat rate public transport ticket that will start that month. It is the permanent successor to the temporary 9 Euro Ticket available for three months in the […]
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I take a lot of pride in making sure my #CrossBorderRail projects are well mapped. But how do you even map rail routes? It’s not as if it’s something someone does every day! So here I am going to outline how I do everything. It might be useful for others. […]
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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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