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Eva<p>Next: <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/CrossBorderRail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CrossBorderRail</span></a> von Spanien nach Frankreich 🇪🇸🇫🇷</p>
Veza85UE<p><a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/CrossBorderRail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CrossBorderRail</span></a> Both Feet Injured Challenge Day 2</p><p><a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/Vilnius" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Vilnius</span></a></p>
Wrzlbrnft<p>Endpunkt Hevlín. Hier ging es mal weiter nach Laa an der Thaya und Wien. Diese Zeiten sind jedoch lange vorbei. Irgendwann wurde da mal ein eiserner Vorhang aufgehängt, der die Strecke unterbrach. Der Vorhang wurde mittlerweile zwar durch Schengen-Binnenkontrollen ersetzt, dass hier aber dereinst mal wieder <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/CrossBorderRail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CrossBorderRail</span></a> stattfinden wird, halte ich in absehbarer Zeit für unwahrscheinlich. <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/V%C3%BDchodn%C3%ADV%C3%BDchod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VýchodníVýchod</span></a></p>
Veza85UE<p>I have no idea what kind of train this is, why it's stopping so often in Latvia or if Rail Baltica is going to be the game changer for business travel my friends in Tallinn expect. All I know is that spending all day with my feet up is exactly what I need for <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/CrossBorderRail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CrossBorderRail</span></a> with Both Feet Injured Challenge so the slow ride works for me.</p>
Veza85UE<p><a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/CrossBorderRail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CrossBorderRail</span></a> Tallinn - idk... at least to Vienna, then we'll see. 🇪🇺🚆<br>*gently covers <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://gruene.social/@jon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>jon</span></a></span> 's eyes... 🙈 </p><p>(Yeah, well, what I lack in planning and organisation I make up for in uh... a sense of adventure. I'm going to call this the xBorderRail on Both Feet Injured Challenge: one sprained ankle and one swollen but still (just about) load-bearing bruised foot.)</p>
Márton Salomváry<p>Train 2 of 7 from Budapest to Vienna departed on time 🎉 I’m the only one with bike on board.</p><p>So far so good.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.berlin/tags/CrossBorderRail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CrossBorderRail</span></a></p>
Trolli Schmittlauch 🦥<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://gruene.social/@jon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>jon</span></a></span> <a href="https://toot.matereal.eu/tags/CrossBorderRail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CrossBorderRail</span></a> is important, but sometimes I reckon <a href="https://toot.matereal.eu/tags/NoBorderRail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoBorderRail</span></a> is what we really need.</p>
Jon Worth<p>I don’t have a <a href="https://gruene.social/tags/CrossBorderRail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CrossBorderRail</span></a> category “The border procedures need to be fixed before you even think about more trains here”</p><p>But there you go. This is a first!</p>
Jon Worth<p><a href="https://gruene.social/tags/CrossBorderRail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CrossBorderRail</span></a> Finale Train 148 of 167<br>INT 493<br>23:03 Dimitrovgrad - İstanbul(Halkalı Garı) 06:20<br>CFR, BDZ, TCDD</p><p>Train type: Škoda 44, later Hyundai Rotem, TÜLOMSAŞ E68000, 4 carriages (1 further carriage to Svilengrad)<br>⚡️ (25kV ac)<br>🚲: ⛔️<br>🦽: ⛔️<br>🛜: ❓(here in BG there’s none, maybe after the border?)<br>🍽️: ❓(I assume the attendant sells something? Oh and I have my own fridge)<br>🧳: 🙂<br>🧽: 🙂 (spotless)</p><p>🎫 Interrail: 😐 (needs compulsory reservation, costs €35 for a single compartment - fair price)</p>
Simon<p>Ein <a href="https://zug.network/tags/CrossBorderRail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CrossBorderRail</span></a> Update hauptsächlich über Freiburg - Colmar: <a href="https://www.landtag-bw.de/resource/blob/578822/02805faaf52325946988aa5bb9f8b45a/17_8978_D.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">landtag-bw.de/resource/blob/57</span><span class="invisible">8822/02805faaf52325946988aa5bb9f8b45a/17_8978_D.pdf</span></a></p><p>Wenn's erst in Leistungsphase 2 ist und noch einige Punkte offen sind..., glaube das dauert noch ein ordentliches Weilchen</p>
波鉄 (Hatetsu)<p>1993 saw a big redesign, probably the biggest ever. The map was replaced with something that used a kinda garish yellow for lands beyond the borders and tried to stick to 45° angles WAY too closely. The symbols were revised. Headers were now tinted blue, while red was removed again. Icons for sleeper/couchette/restaurant cars went into the row showing classes of seat available, and I think luggage cars were indicated for the first time. Arrows indicating which way to turn pages to reverse direction were added. And last but not least, each tables header showed the line's route with little squares labeled with cities that were filled-in for the section you were looking at on the given page. The international tables where re-arranged, with local <a href="https://mastodon.com.pl/tags/CrossBorderRail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CrossBorderRail</span></a> traffic getting its own couple of pages with TF (later T) tables.</p><p>One annoying flaw was that while pretty much every table got special rows showing the ultimate destination of a train and which table it was shown in, such rows weren't added for the origin for whatever reason.</p><p>…There were also, kind of ominous-looking in their simplicity, ads for a weekly called "Capital".</p><p><a href="https://timetableworld.com/ttw-viewer.php?token=cc56f93d-91bd-4170-8a42-74e585b3c690" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">timetableworld.com/ttw-viewer.</span><span class="invisible">php?token=cc56f93d-91bd-4170-8a42-74e585b3c690</span></a></p><p>In 1994, the blue accents turned magenta and the table design was altered a bit more - for one, the train categories and numbers were right-aligned, as if someone had been looking at Excel too much.</p><p><a href="https://timetableworld.com/ttw-viewer.php?token=9e985457-945a-48a5-97f2-160ac6c4c2b3" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">timetableworld.com/ttw-viewer.</span><span class="invisible">php?token=9e985457-945a-48a5-97f2-160ac6c4c2b3</span></a></p><p>…Then in 1995, they wen for another redesign, 'cause why not at this point, I guess? Out with the squares, in with circles! Black is the new red! International IC logo! Striking table number!</p><p><a href="https://timetableworld.com/ttw-viewer.php?token=a97d2d6a-19b0-4262-9664-7c27a40edcbb" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">timetableworld.com/ttw-viewer.</span><span class="invisible">php?token=a97d2d6a-19b0-4262-9664-7c27a40edcbb</span></a></p><p>…And in 1996 they redesigned AGAIN, which I don't feel like screenshotting anymore.<br>Some time around then they added a table 1000, to show all trains between Bucharest and Ploiești.</p><p><a href="https://timetableworld.com/ttw-viewer.php?token=37720507-347d-40de-8ae1-8c84242815f4" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">timetableworld.com/ttw-viewer.</span><span class="invisible">php?token=37720507-347d-40de-8ae1-8c84242815f4</span></a></p><p>15/</p>
波鉄 (Hatetsu)<p>Once again, a companion thread to <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://gruene.social/@jon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>jon</span></a></span>'s <a href="https://mastodon.com.pl/tags/CrossBorderRail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CrossBorderRail</span></a> journeys - this time, an exhibition about Romanian Kursbücher!</p><p>…Well, it's a bit late, it turned out it took 3~4 evenings to write… I spent way, way too much time on this</p><p>On the way from Beclean to Suceava last week, Jon inspired me to do some research and while information about Romania's railway history is apparently scarce online, timetables are an exception - thanks to the efforts of one Marius Ionescu (who appears to be active on VagonWeb, too), Timetable World has a great collection of CFR paper timetables available for online viewing! And it turns out there's a lot of interesting and cute things I'd like to showcase in there.</p><p>(This thread was originally going to include screenshots until I realized the potential copyright implications. It was then going to include links to the particular pages until I realized the potential privacy implications (since I have to generate them and they only contain a UUID that tells the server to look something up, well…). So, mostly text and links to individual timetable books are going to have to do. (I mean, I know that's not a super-ultra great guarantee either, but I am still complelled to at least try))</p><p>1/</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.com.pl/tags/RomanianTimetables" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RomanianTimetables</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.com.pl/tags/Kursbuch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Kursbuch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.com.pl/tags/timetable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>timetable</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.com.pl/tags/railway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>railway</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.com.pl/tags/bahnbubble" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bahnbubble</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.com.pl/tags/CFR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CFR</span></a></p>
Jon Worth<p>Third time Dimitrovgrad on <a href="https://gruene.social/tags/CrossBorderRail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CrossBorderRail</span></a> </p><p>2x 🇧🇬 <br>1x 🇷🇸 <br>0x 🇷🇺 (obviously)</p>
Jon Worth<p><a href="https://gruene.social/tags/CrossBorderRail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CrossBorderRail</span></a> Finale Train 147 of 167<br>R 8612<br>15:36 Karnobat - Dimitrovgrad 18:23<br>BDZ</p><p>Train type: Siemens Vectron locomotive, 4 carriages<br>⚡️ (25kV ac)<br>🚲: ❓(no space foreseen but you’d likely make it work)<br>🦽: ⛔️ (no disabled accessible carriage)<br>🛜: ⛔️<br>🍽️: ⛔️<br>🧳: 🙂 (by standards of this region v good! Wide-ish steps, good space)<br>🧽: 😐 (even in a few months since sale DB to BDZ cleanliness slipping)</p><p>🎫 Interrail: 🙂 or 😐 (officially comp res, but at Karnobat they told me just get in!)</p>
Jon Worth<p><a href="https://gruene.social/tags/CrossBorderRail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CrossBorderRail</span></a> Finale Train 146 of 167<br>RE 30152<br>11:47 Poveljanovo - Karnobat 14:14<br>BDZ</p><p>Train type: Siemens Vectron locomotive, 3 carriages<br>⚡️ (25kV ac)<br>🚲: ❓ (not officially, but there would be enough space)<br>🦽: ⛔️<br>🛜: ⛔️<br>🍽️: ⛔️<br>🧳: 😐 (better than first train of the day, but still high steps up, but doors are at least wider, good once inside)️<br>🧽: ☹️ (toilets stink, windows are covered in grime)</p><p>🎫 Interrail: 🙂 (accepted, but BDZ employee got angry - she had no gadget to scan the QR code. I shrugged!)</p>
Jon Worth<p><a href="https://gruene.social/tags/CrossBorderRail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CrossBorderRail</span></a> Finale Train 145 of 167<br>RE 28203<br>09:40 Dobrich - Poveljanovo 10:56<br>BDZ</p><p>Train type: Luhanskyj Teplowosobudiwnyj Sawod 07 diesel locomotive, 1 carriage (1 further carriages locked)<br>⛽️<br>🚲: ❓ (not officially allowed, but you'd manage)<br>🦽: ⛔️<br>🛜: ⛔️<br>🍽️: ⛔️<br>🧳: 😐 (ok once in, but hellish high and narrow steps to get in)️<br>🧽: ☹️ (not been cleaned properly in years)</p><p>🎫 Interrail: 🙂 (accepted, although the BDZ gadget could not scan the Interrail QR code)</p>
Søren Have<p>Now official that the Fehmarn rail tunnel has on the German side is delayed: <a href="https://politiken.dk/danmark/art10491758/Togforbindelse-over-Femern-B%C3%A6lt-ser-ud-til-at-forsinkes-i-flere-%C3%A5r" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">politiken.dk/danmark/art104917</span><span class="invisible">58/Togforbindelse-over-Femern-B%C3%A6lt-ser-ud-til-at-forsinkes-i-flere-%C3%A5r</span></a></p><p>(But at least it seems that the old bridge connection is being strengthened as a plan B)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/dktrp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dktrp</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/dkpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dkpol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/dkgreen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dkgreen</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://gruene.social/@jon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>jon</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/CrossBorderRail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CrossBorderRail</span></a></p>
Jon Worth<p>Here's today's <a href="https://gruene.social/tags/CrossBorderRail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CrossBorderRail</span></a> music track</p><p>Istanbul (Not Constantinople)<br>They Might Be Giants</p><p>This one is in for the title more than anything!</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XlO39kCQ-8" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=0XlO39kCQ-8</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Jon Worth<p>And I’d wondered why there were odd costumes in my hotel! Both <a href="https://gruene.social/tags/FolkloreWithoutBorders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FolkloreWithoutBorders</span></a> and <a href="https://gruene.social/tags/CrossBorderRail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CrossBorderRail</span></a> are staying here! 😀</p>
Jon Worth<p>Welcome to today's thread - 2025 <a href="https://gruene.social/tags/CrossBorderRail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CrossBorderRail</span></a> Finale Day 38 - 24 July - Dobrich - Poveljanovo - Karnobat - Dimitrovgrad, onto night train</p><p>Today's new borders:<br>Kapitan Andreevo 🇧🇬 - Kapikule 🇹🇷</p><p>Borders map, inc. borders re-crossed:<br><a href="https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-all-the-borders_935041#15/41.7210/26.3452" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/c</span><span class="invisible">rossborderrail-all-the-borders_935041#15/41.7210/26.3452</span></a></p><p>Today's trains on the routes map:<br><a href="https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2025-finale_1163738#8/42.306/27.128" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/c</span><span class="invisible">rossborderrail-2025-finale_1163738#8/42.306/27.128</span></a></p><p>Good morning from Dobrich 🇧🇬 </p><p>A little walk first</p><p>It’s both charming and- in that it’s so calm, no traffic. And bad, in that many buildings are ugly and the upkeep poor</p>