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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
Determined citizens in Breisach, rail replacement buses to Müllheim, and no clarity about new trains – France-Germany regional rail remains a mess
You have to give credit to the people that have kept the campaign for the re-activation of the Freiburg – Breisach – Volgelsheim – Colmar railway line alive. For a decade they’ve been campaigning, and the next step is a […]
Read More3 of the #CrossBorderRail Top 20 projects now solved
The motivation for the whole #CrossBorderRail project was to assess why there had been such meagre progress fixing the 15 missing links Michael Cramer had proposed in his 2015 report. Only 1 of the 15 from Cramer’s list – Selb-Plößberg […]
Read MoreBring the ideas of #CrossBorderRail home during the holidays
Once in a while someone gives you an idea so simple you wonder why you never thought of it yourself. “Jon, did you ever think of making a board game to explain the problems with international rail in Europe?” the […]
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- •2024 projects
- •Albania
- •Bosnia and Herzegovina
- •European Union
- •France
- •Ireland
- •Kosovo
- •Montenegro
- Newsletter
- •North Macedonia
- •Portugal
- •Serbia
- •Spain
As 2023 draws to a close, what next for #CrossBorderRail?
My 2023 projects might not have had the one-off “wow, some dude is crossing all of Europe’s borders in one go!” effect that 2022 had, but looking back the past 12 months have both been a lot of fun and […]
Read More- •2023 projects
- •Austria
- •European Union
- •France
- •Germany
- •Italy
- •Portugal
- •Reflections
- •Slovenia
- •Spain
#CrossBorderRail is done for 2023 – now 193 railway borders in Europe investigated
I’m writing this blog post at my desk in Berlin, back home after the final part of my Autumn 2023 #CrossBorderRail journey. The past 10 days have taken me to Slovenia’s borders, then via Karlsruhe through France to Spain and […]
Read MoreAll the borders crossed during #CrossBorderRail 2022-2024
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