Welcome to today's thread - #CrossBorderRail 2026 Tour Day 32 - 5 May - Strasbourg - Rumelange - Kirchberg - Wiltz - Libramont - Bruxelles
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@pseudomonas @jon does that mean the zip line from Spain to Portugal counts as a cross-border monorail?
Fuel: gravity
No WiFi
No meal service
Terrible for luggage
Interrail not accepted@trantion @pseudomonas please don’t get me to do cable cars. There are some alpine ones too!
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Rumelange. This #CrossBorderRail is UNESCO listed.
@jon Remeleng!
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The houses are in Luxembourg at the start of the video. The side road is in France. #CrossBorderRail
Made it. Phew 🥵 #CrossBorderRail
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I think this wasn’t the #CrossBorderRail
@jon doesn’t look like it
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Trainline can’t sell it either
️ #CrossBorderRail@jon I will travel to Olomouc at the end of May. Only way: book on ČD app (not possible on DB navigator) and get reservation to Prague from DB.
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@jon I will travel to Olomouc at the end of May. Only way: book on ČD app (not possible on DB navigator) and get reservation to Prague from DB.
@maha at least that was semi logical as a solution! This is a SNCF train they can’t sell.
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SNCF Connect, it can *always* be worse than you imagine. I am on Interrail today but wondered how much Metz
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costs. SNCF Connect can’t tell me, TER Grand Est site can. SNCF is the operator. 
️ #CrossBorderRail@jon SNCF showed my connection from Paris to Donostia, but I could only book from Paris to Hendaye. There I‘ll have to buy my ticket for Euskotrain at a vending machine within minutes. Very uncomfortable. But what is even worse: There is a timetable for Euskotrain for May, but not for June, so I have to find out whether and when it is running when I‘ll be there. Google recommends walking to Irun.
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Made it. Phew 🥵 #CrossBorderRail
Lëtzebuergesch is a funny language to read as a speaker of German and English!
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Lëtzebuergesch is a funny language to read as a speaker of German and English!
I know it’s the Lux tram. But *that* lux, with seats that light up?
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SNCF Connect, it can *always* be worse than you imagine. I am on Interrail today but wondered how much Metz
- Bettembourg costs. SNCF Connect can’t tell me, TER Grand Est site can. SNCF is the operator. ️ #CrossBorderRail@jon For my journey back to Germany SNCF only shows connections from Hendaye through Paris, although there is a direct train from Bordeaux to Strasbourg. I found it on DB navigator and could even book it on SNCF connect, if I put in Bordeaux as a starting point. The direct connection is faster, less cumbersome, and cheaper, but SNCF doesn’t want to sell it. I wonder why. Why do they force me to carry my suitcase around Paris? Suffice to say that there are lots of available seats.
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@jon SNCF showed my connection from Paris to Donostia, but I could only book from Paris to Hendaye. There I‘ll have to buy my ticket for Euskotrain at a vending machine within minutes. Very uncomfortable. But what is even worse: There is a timetable for Euskotrain for May, but not for June, so I have to find out whether and when it is running when I‘ll be there. Google recommends walking to Irun.
@maha blame UIC. Really. They’ve been incapable for years of getting Euskotren data into the UIC Merits database.
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I know it’s the Lux tram. But *that* lux, with seats that light up?
@jon "lux" means "light", so makes sense, kind of?
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@jon "lux" means "light", so makes sense, kind of?
@pitrh that’s the play on words I was making, yes
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@jon For my journey back to Germany SNCF only shows connections from Hendaye through Paris, although there is a direct train from Bordeaux to Strasbourg. I found it on DB navigator and could even book it on SNCF connect, if I put in Bordeaux as a starting point. The direct connection is faster, less cumbersome, and cheaper, but SNCF doesn’t want to sell it. I wonder why. Why do they force me to carry my suitcase around Paris? Suffice to say that there are lots of available seats.
@maha You’re a passenger. Why does SNCF care about you? (Sorry)
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@pitrh that’s the play on words I was making, yes
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I know it’s the Lux tram. But *that* lux, with seats that light up?
I don’t have any data on these either. But I’m getting closer to my destination: the European Court of Auditors
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I don’t have any data on these either. But I’m getting closer to my destination: the European Court of Auditors
@jon A ride in that tram is what that side of Luxembourg (city) feels like. Extremely clean, sophisticated music choice, exuding that money-is-no-object vibe, ... yet lacking somewhat in personality, like it's detached from history
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@jon A ride in that tram is what that side of Luxembourg (city) feels like. Extremely clean, sophisticated music choice, exuding that money-is-no-object vibe, ... yet lacking somewhat in personality, like it's detached from history
@TimothyRoes right. Exactly that.
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Lëtzebuergesch is a funny language to read as a speaker of German and English!
@jon Ich befasse mich hin und wieder mal mit Luxemburgisch und habe dadurch Ende 2022 Kontakt um Luxemburger Linguisten Jerome Lulling geknüpft, mit dem ich bis heute in recht gutem Austausch stehe. Immer dann, wenn ich in Luxemburg bin, gerauche ich Luxemburgisch, sofern möglich und switche auf Deutsch, sobald ich an meine Grenzen stoße.
