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Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Kosovo.
The borders between them, and their borders with the EU.
To be investigated in May 2024.

#CrossBorderRail Autumn 2023

At least 20 more #CrossBorderRail lines. 99 trains. More than 10 events. A speech on the Kulturzug to Wrocław, and a ferry and train trip to Ireland. The Autumn 2023 project has now concluded.

#CrossBorderRail 2023 - all of Germany's rail borders - has now concluded

2nd-15th May 2023 - the first month of the new Deutschlandticket - I travelled to all of Germany's borders to its neighbouring countries, with a focus on the places I did not visit in 2022. In total I explored more than 30 more cross border railway lines.

Top 20 projects - #CrossBorderRail 2022 conclusions

After more than 30000km on trains, and 95 borders crossed, the first conclusions of the #CrossBorderRail project were presented 29th August 2022 in Berlin - 20 places where change is needed and could be implemented fast!

#CrossBorderRail 13 June - 1 August 2022

Anyone who has ever tried to cross borders within the EU by train has seen the problem: international trains (if they even run!) are often less regular, have worse timetables, and are harder to book than trains in one country. I want to highlight these issues, and show ways to solve them in this project.

#CrossBorderRail so far

203

#CrossBorderRail lines
visited and investigated

90945km

on 584
trains

2484km

by bike, across
98 bike legs

4246km

by bus, ferry
and car

News

06.04.2022

Should I even be attempting this journey?

To be honest, I have wondered. Should I be attempting a 40-day, 28 country trip while the COVID pandemic is not done, and with a war in Ukraine raging on the border of the European Union? But for now, I […]

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05.04.2022

Open source mapping tools

One of the headaches when planning the #CrossBorderRail trip was to be able to map railway routes adequately accurately. The number of railway routing tools available in public is considerably fewer than for road transport! But on this – as […]

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05.04.2022

The Kaunas-Suwałki headache

Kaunas – the second city of Lithuania – is European Capital of Culture in 2022. But trying to get from Lithuania to either Latvia or Poland is – at the time of writing – impossible by train. And that despite […]

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04.04.2022

A previous trip to Gorizia – Nova Gorica

One of the joys of preparing the website for this project has been to look back over the pictures taken at previous trips to some of these borders within the EU. Gorizia (IT) – Nova Gorica (SI) is one of […]

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All the borders crossed during #CrossBorderRail 2022-2024

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