Right!

[jon@gruene.social]

Ha

Someone walks along the corridor and at the moment the person passes the lady who argued with me about the window blind the train violently shakes, and the person falls towards her (totally not that person's fault), but that pisses her off too

It's not her day

[jon@gruene.social]

#CrossBorderRail Finale Train 62 of 158
TGV 9551
09:06 Paris Est - Frankfurt (Main) Hbf 12:59
SNCF Voyageurs, DB Fernverkehr

Train type: Alstom TGV Euroduplex, 8 short double deck carriages
️ (25kV ac, 15kV ac)
: ️
🦽: (step free into train, lift down inside)
🛜: (something is weird with it though, very patchy)
️:
🧳: ️ (poor design)
🧽:

Interrail: (needs compulsory reservation, costs €19)

[jon@gruene.social]

TGV 9551
09:06 Paris Est - Frankfurt (Main) Hbf (via Saarbrücken) 12:59

Distance: 589.8km
Average speed: 152km/h

5 stops:
Forbach
Saarbrücken Hbf
Kaiserslautern Hbf
Mannheim Hbf
Frankfurt(Main)Hbf

This train, mapped: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2025-finale_1163738#8/49.493/5.512

[jon@gruene.social]

Meanwhile via @LachAnonym news about a line I visited a fortnight ago: https://www.rynek-kolejowy.pl/wiadomosci/skpl-rezygnuje-z-pociagow-do-chyrowa-kolejne-problemy-prawne--123834.html

Services through Krościenko - Smolnica to Khyriv will not start, which honestly doesn't surprise me as the infra is so bad

Malhowice - Nyzhankovychi would be a better bet, but SKPL has its depot on the other line...

Borders here: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-all-the-borders_935041#9/49.6241/22.6497

[jon@gruene.social]

Meanwhile re. the window blind argument: the blind is 80% open, because the sun is now high enough to not shine on the other passenger's laptop

(Which I knew would happen, because I know the geographic arrangement of LGV Est, and I am sat downstairs in the Duplex)

[jon@gruene.social]

Ok here we go

Forbach, last French station

Two Bundespolizei ready to board…

Unlike at Kehl are they going to be clever enough to control while the train is moving?

[jon@gruene.social]

Ah

Now another passenger with a headscarf boards at Saarbrücken

If the Bubdespolizei control her… that’s going to be interesting

(But my guess is they’ve walked through upstairs and won’t come down)

[jon@gruene.social]

And we have a posse of German retired people talking loudly. That’s very German

And we‘re moving - without further delay

These controls (or not) are weird

[jon@gruene.social]

Counting my railway lives here…

‍ ‍

Diversion via Darmstadt from Mannheim… it’s going to add 20 mins

But I should still get the connection in Frankfurt

[jon@gruene.social]

Ahhhh

Got to Frankfurt with enough time to get my onward train
🧳 Three elderly passengers couldn’t shift their bags in the heat, so I helped them - while other passengers kept an eye on my bags
ICE is here

All’s good!

[jon@gruene.social]

Americans in the next train. They exclaim when they sit down “But how were we supposed to find our seats? No one told us anything!”

Well, maybe *ask*? Just an idea. Or is asking strangers for help passé?

[jon@gruene.social]

They open food

“This is Germany. They don’t know what salad is!”

Errrrrr…

[jon@gruene.social]

#CrossBorderRail Finale Train 63 of 158
ICE 627
13:54 Frankfurt (Main) Hbf - Nürnberg Hbf 15:56
DB Fernverkehr

Train type: Siemens, ADtranz, Bombardier ICE 3, 8 carriages
️ (15kV ac)
: ️
🦽: (needs lift on platform)
🛜:
️: ️ (staff shortage, dining car closed)
🧳:
🧽:

Interrail: (accepted)

[jon@gruene.social]

ICE 627
13:54 Frankfurt (Main) Hbf - Nürnberg Hbf 15:56

Distance: 226.1km
Average speed: 111km/h

3 stops:
Aschaffenburg Hbf
Würzburg Hbf
Nürnberg Hbf

This train, mapped: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2025-finale_1163738#10/49.7848/9.8664

[jon@gruene.social]

This is outright hypocrisy from Tusk

"Auch an der Grenze zum östlichen Nachbarland Litauen soll es künftig Überprüfungen geben."

Errr, every bus and I think even every vehicle has been controlled on the motorway there for the past 12 months ‍️

Not that any German media would both checking that

Or checking that - honestly - multiple absurdities do not make a right

https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/europa/polen-grenzkontrollen-108.html

[jon@gruene.social]

#CrossBorderRail Finale Train 64 of 158
RE 33 (5291)
16:37 Nürnberg Hbf - Cheb 18:23
DB Regio AG Bayern

Train type: Adtranz, Bombardier 612 tilting DMU, 2 carriages (4 more carriages to other destinations)
️
:
🦽: (lift on platform)
🛜:
️: ️
🧳: (tricky with large bags)
🧽:

Interrail: (accepted)

[jon@gruene.social]

RE 33 (5291)
16:37 Nürnberg Hbf - Cheb 18:23

Distance: 151.2km
Average speed: 86km/h

7 stops:
Neuhaus(Pegnitz)
Pegnitz
Kirchenlaibach
Marktredwitz
Arzberg(Oberfr)
Schirnding
Cheb

This train, mapped: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2025-finale_1163738#10/49.7378/11.6215

[jon@gruene.social]

In the next train there are 5 Belgian (Walloon) men opposite me

“I’m looking forward to getting a goulash in Prague!”

Errr…

[jon@gruene.social]

Joys of #CrossBorderRail

We’re +8

But the Czechs don’t know it until we cross the border ‍️

[jon@gruene.social]

But #CrossBorderRail worked well enough. Bit of sprinting and I’m onto the Cheb - Praha