Welcome to today's thread - #CrossBorderRail 2026 Tour Day 32 - 5 May - Strasbourg - Rumelange - Kirchberg - Wiltz - Libramont - Bruxelles

[jon@gruene.social]

@pseudomonas sadly it’s about 200m from the border!

[pseudomonas@mastodon.social]

@jon So. close but no entry on your database.

[jon@gruene.social]

Damn. I came the wrong way! The bus here runs Bijelo Polje - Luxembourg ! #CrossBorderRail

[jon@gruene.social]

Here’s the location of the former #CrossBorderRail line

[jon@gruene.social]

Rumelange. This #CrossBorderRail is UNESCO listed.

[trantion@masto.ai]

@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

[jon@gruene.social]

The houses are in Luxembourg at the start of the video. The side road is in France. #CrossBorderRail

[jon@gruene.social]

@trantion @pseudomonas please don’t get me to do cable cars. There are some alpine ones too!

[aschmitz@gruene.social]

@jon Remeleng!

[jon@gruene.social]

Made it. Phew 🥵 #CrossBorderRail

[meercat0@mastodon.social]

@jon doesn’t look like it

[maha@bahn.social]

@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.

[jon@gruene.social]

@maha at least that was semi logical as a solution! This is a SNCF train they can’t sell.

[maha@bahn.social]

@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.

[jon@gruene.social]

Lëtzebuergesch is a funny language to read as a speaker of German and English!

[jon@gruene.social]

I know it’s the Lux tram. But *that* lux, with seats that light up?

[maha@bahn.social]

@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.

[jon@gruene.social]

@maha blame UIC. Really. They’ve been incapable for years of getting Euskotren data into the UIC Merits database.

[pitrh@mastodon.social]

@jon "lux" means "light", so makes sense, kind of?

[jon@gruene.social]

@pitrh that’s the play on words I was making, yes