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#CrossBorderRail

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Jon Worth

#CrossBorderRail Finale Train 169 of 169
TER 91358
18:33 Dijon Ville - Nuits-sous-Ravières 19:19
SNCF for TER Mobigo

Train type: Bombardier AGC Bi-mode MU 4 short carriages
⚡️ (1.5kV dc)
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (step free if station allows)
🛜: ⛔️
🍽️: ⛔️
🧳: 🙂
🧽: 🙂 (clean today)

🎫 Interrail: 🙂 (accepted)

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Jon Worth

Meanwhile about the #CrossBorderRail train into Vatican City: I emailed the museum who offered the train as part of a tour, asking if the suspension was temporary or permanent. The answer… doesn’t answer! 🤷‍♂️

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#CrossBorderRail Finale Train 168 of 169
TGV 9226
15:34 Zürich HB - Dijon Ville 18:00
TGV Lyria

Train type: Alstom TGV Euroduplex, 8 short double deck carriages
⚡️ (15kV ac, 25kV ac, 1.5kV dc)
🚲: ⛔️
🦽: ✅ (step free then lift down inside)
🛜: ⛔️ (installed but won’t work)
🍽️: ✅
🧳: ☹️ (TGV Duplex so awful)
🧽: 🙂

🎫 Interrail: 😐 (needs compulsory reservation, costs €29 - which is a scandalous price)

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Jon Worth

There are however still 67 disused and dismantled #CrossBorderRail lines I have not yet been to...

Although only a handful have any prospect of re-activation

So I am not going to try to go to those!

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Jon Worth

So I have been to all bar 5 active railway #CrossBorderRail lines between all of these

ALL 🇪🇺 countries (except 🇲🇹, 🇨🇾 that have no railways)
🇳🇴
🇨🇭
🇱🇮
🇬🇧
🇷🇸
🇧🇦
🇲🇰
🇲🇪
🇦🇱
🇲🇩
🇺🇦

I am missing
🇻🇦
🇬🇪
🇦🇲
🇦🇿

For political reasons I won't go to
🇷🇺
🇧🇾
so those aren't counted

🇹🇷 to 🇪🇺 is covered, to 🇬🇪🇦🇲 it's not

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Jon Worth

And there are four active #CrossBorderRail lines where the track is legally active, but there are no passenger trains, that I am missing

Eglaine 🇱🇻 - Obeliai 🇱🇹
Renge 🇱🇻 - Mažeikiai 🇱🇹
Rybnitsa 🇲🇩 (Transnistria) - Klymentove 🇺🇦
Uzhhorod 🇺🇦 - Maťovské Vojkovce 🇸🇰

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Jon Worth

Ah ha

Perfect! 😀

The only #CrossBorderRail line with passenger traffic, sort of, that I am now missing is...

Roma San Pietro 🇮🇹 - Citta Vaticano 🇻🇦

There's probably no god, now stop worrying and enjoy your #CrossBorderRail! 🎉

umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/c

(and yes, it is temporarily closed, and yes, it only runs once a week normally)

uMap#CrossBorderRail All The BordersAll of Europe's rail borders - categorised by type, and whether I (Jon Worth) have been to the location. KEY Pink: visited in 2022 during #CrossBorderRail Project Lighter pink: visited in 2022-23 during #CrossBorderRail DE Borders Project 2023, or Extra Days Orange: visited at another time Grey: not yet visited Light grey: used for tramways and narrow gauge lines ICONS Track with cross - track is missing or out of use Train with cross, and track - track is useable but no passenger trains Train and track - passenger trains run Map developed as part of my #CrossBorderRail project http://crossborderrail.trainsforeurope.eu/
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#CrossBorderRail Finale Train 167 of 169
RJX 368
05:35 Wien Meidling - Zürich HB (diverted via Schwarzach) 15:20
ÖBB

Train type: Siemens 1116 Taurus locomotive, fixed 7 carriage formation, driving control car
⚡️ (15kV ac)
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (lift on board)
🛜: ✅
🍽️: ✅
🧳: 🙂
🧽: 🙂 (spotless - Railjet cleanliness is generally excellent)

🎫 Interrail: 🙂 (accepted)

Top score!

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Jon Worth

#CrossBorderRail Finale Train 166 of 169
REX 3
04:57 Wien Praterstern - Wien Meidling 05:14
ÖBB

Train type: Siemens Desiro ML EMU, 2x 3 carriages
⚡️ (15kV ac)
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (step free, hefty on board lift if not)
🛜: ✅ (and it works)
🍽️: ⛔️
🧳: 🙂
🧽: 🙂

🎫 Interrail: 🙂 (accepted)

plonksi

@vorortanleiter @zugpost
#CrossBorderRail

Hi there and apologies for asking for information and not contributing much to the conversation here - I am looking for a decent way to get by rail and maybe ferry from Bonn to Athens in mid February 2026.

Anybody some guidance on that?

I might be able to have a stopover in Milano and so I'm thinking about traveling by rail to either Bari, Ancona or Brindisi and taking a ferry (overnight?) to Igoumenitsa or Patras. And then on by bus and/train. There seems to be no rail option between Igoumenitsa and Athens, and the route between Patras and Athens also seems to include a bus. With all the variables, it's a bit overwhelming, I'm afraid I'm missing something crucial.

I can also see that the ferries might have a reduced schedule in winter...
I have doubts that travelling via the Balkan peninsula will safe any time...

Dee Toher

One of the lovely things about being chief registration queue wrangler on the first day of an #EJC is finding out the variety of ways people use to get there.

Lots of people combining #CrossBorderRail with cycling (as their bikes are very useful around the site) and some doing their entire trips by bike!

Many people covered over 150km on bikes to get here!

I'd struggle with the weight (and time) constraints a bit to manage an EJC by bike from Ireland.

#EuropeanJugglingConvention#EJC2025
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