Welcome to today's thread - #CrossBorderRail 2026 Tour Day 32 - 5 May - Strasbourg - Rumelange - Kirchberg - Wiltz - Libramont - Bruxelles
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Here’s today’s intro video. Two borders and a meeting in Luxembourg.
https://peertube.netzbegruenung.de/w/h1r8FwD4SnA1NRvtGXq4CB#CrossBorderRail 2026 Spring Tour Train 110 of 125
TER 30302
07:53 Strasbourg - Metz Ville 09:21
SNCF for TER Fluo Grand EstTrain type: GEC Alsthom, MTE BB 26000 locomotive, 8 Corail carriages, driving control car
️ (25kV ac)
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🦽: (lift on platform)
🛜:
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🧳:
(narrow doors high steps)
🧽: (it’s grimy, but I’ve seen worse)
Interrail:
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Welcome to today's thread - #CrossBorderRail 2026 Tour Day 32 - 5 May - Strasbourg - Rumelange - Kirchberg - Wiltz - Libramont - Bruxelles
New borders:
Rumelange
- Ottange 
Benonchamps
- Schimpach-Wampach A few dismantled lines at
borders – to at Rumelange, then west of Wiltz towards . And appropriately from Wiltz I will cycle through Bastogne, a town today without a railway station that is nevertheless rather famous for its bike race.On the routes map:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2026-spring-tour_1361108#8/49.728030/6.058960@jon I would say, Welcome to Brussels, but I'm outta here at 14h.
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#CrossBorderRail 2026 Spring Tour Train 110 of 125
TER 30302
07:53 Strasbourg - Metz Ville 09:21
SNCF for TER Fluo Grand EstTrain type: GEC Alsthom, MTE BB 26000 locomotive, 8 Corail carriages, driving control car
️ (25kV ac):
🦽: (lift on platform)
🛜:️️: ️
🧳: (narrow doors high steps)
🧽: (it’s grimy, but I’ve seen worse)
Interrail: (accepted)TER 30302
07:53 Strasbourg - Metz Ville 09:21Distance: 154.2km
Average speed: 105km/h5 stops:
Brumath
Saverne
Réding
Morhange
Metz VilleThis train, mapped: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2026-spring-tour_1361108#10/48.848451/6.954346
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TER 30302
07:53 Strasbourg - Metz Ville 09:21Distance: 154.2km
Average speed: 105km/h5 stops:
Brumath
Saverne
Réding
Morhange
Metz VilleThis train, mapped: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2026-spring-tour_1361108#10/48.848451/6.954346
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. 
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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. ️ #CrossBorderRailTrainline can’t sell it either
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Trainline can’t sell it either
️ #CrossBorderRailPEOPLE DO YOUR JOBS
THERE’S A SOLID RAIL SERVICE
MAKE IT EASY TO GET TICKETS!
🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
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PEOPLE DO YOUR JOBS
THERE’S A SOLID RAIL SERVICE
MAKE IT EASY TO GET TICKETS!
🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Also public transport is free in Luxembourg
So all you need is to sell a ticket to the fictitious station at the border (Bettembourg Grenze or some such)
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Also public transport is free in Luxembourg
So all you need is to sell a ticket to the fictitious station at the border (Bettembourg Grenze or some such)
It was so funny standing at a station in Luxembourg trying to get a ticket at a machine - but there where only tickets for first class. Then suddenly service personal appeared telling us that we don't need tickets. I was shocked by both: I don't need to pay and you offer support by humans?
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PEOPLE DO YOUR JOBS
THERE’S A SOLID RAIL SERVICE
MAKE IT EASY TO GET TICKETS!
🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
@jon It's good we're working on trying to get that fixed then
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Also public transport is free in Luxembourg
So all you need is to sell a ticket to the fictitious station at the border (Bettembourg Grenze or some such)
Something’s wrong. The TER is crawling along.
Rather than tell us what’s wrong (which would be handy!) we’re being warned to not open the doors.
Priorities!
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Trainline can’t sell it either
️ #CrossBorderRail@jon AFAIK the only way for third parties to sell any TER is through SNCF. So whatever they have is what third parties (who are connected to SNCF Connect API’s) will sell.
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@jon AFAIK the only way for third parties to sell any TER is through SNCF. So whatever they have is what third parties (who are connected to SNCF Connect API’s) will sell.
@stefanlindbohm is there a API for Grand Est TERs?
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@stefanlindbohm is there a API for Grand Est TERs?
@jon I doubt it. All goes through Connect from what I know.
(For third parties - obviously there are integrations used between the involved parties. But those might potentially be infeasible technically for a reseller to use.)
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@jon I doubt it. All goes through Connect from what I know.
(For third parties - obviously there are integrations used between the involved parties. But those might potentially be infeasible technically for a reseller to use.)
@stefanlindbohm but how does a SNCF ticket office sell it? There must be data on those trains in SNCF systems?
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@stefanlindbohm but how does a SNCF ticket office sell it? There must be data on those trains in SNCF systems?
@jon It might be sharing of the tariff data and SNCF issuing tickets for it independently? No third party can do that.
@jeanbaptistemarie Maybe you know if there are API’s resellers can use to connect directly to the régions? Or is it all through Connect/PAO?
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@jon It might be sharing of the tariff data and SNCF issuing tickets for it independently? No third party can do that.
@jeanbaptistemarie Maybe you know if there are API’s resellers can use to connect directly to the régions? Or is it all through Connect/PAO?
@stefanlindbohm @jeanbaptistemarie or is there a Grenze station in Connect data but their search is just too crap to find which Grenze that Bettembourg is beyond?
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Welcome to today's thread - #CrossBorderRail 2026 Tour Day 32 - 5 May - Strasbourg - Rumelange - Kirchberg - Wiltz - Libramont - Bruxelles
New borders:
Rumelange - Ottange
Benonchamps - Schimpach-Wampach A few dismantled lines at
borders – to at Rumelange, then west of Wiltz towards . And appropriately from Wiltz I will cycle through Bastogne, a town today without a railway station that is nevertheless rather famous for its bike race.On the routes map:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2026-spring-tour_1361108#8/49.728030/6.058960@jon oh, Bastogne! The station building of Bastogne Sud still has a waiting room open for passengers (that now are waiting for the bus).
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Something’s wrong. The TER is crawling along.
Rather than tell us what’s wrong (which would be handy!) we’re being warned to not open the doors.
Priorities!
Shit show of a railway. The TER to Luxembourg didn’t wait 1 min for the incoming TER from Strasbourg.
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Shit show of a railway. The TER to Luxembourg didn’t wait 1 min for the incoming TER from Strasbourg.
Thanks for funding this, EU!
Could you maybe also tell SNCF how to organise an effing timetable?
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@stefanlindbohm @jeanbaptistemarie or is there a Grenze station in Connect data but their search is just too crap to find which Grenze that Bettembourg is beyond?
@jon Oh right, that might be why Connect fails to create a ticket. It might be looking for a tariff for Bettembourg frontier > Bettembourg, finding none and thus failing to create a price. While the région is using an inventory system (the one that creates tickets) that knows to just skip that segment.
We don’t integrate directly with SNCF Connect, but if it is possible to select border points in the API it might be possible as a reseller to get a ticket that way.
