Welcome to today's thread - #CrossBorderRail 2026 Tour Day 32 - 5 May - Strasbourg - Rumelange - Kirchberg - Wiltz - Libramont - Bruxelles
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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.
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Thanks for funding this, EU!
Could you maybe also tell SNCF how to organise an effing timetable?
So the plan now: blag my way onto a TGV (with Interrail), get to Thionville and bike from there to Rumelange
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Thanks for funding this, EU!
Could you maybe also tell SNCF how to organise an effing timetable?
@jon Already spray painted ?
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So the plan now: blag my way onto a TGV (with Interrail), get to Thionville and bike from there to Rumelange
Ok. Got the TGV. So now I’ve got to bike Thionville - Rumelange instead of Bettembourg - Rumelange. I might yet manage all this today
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Ok. Got the TGV. So now I’ve got to bike Thionville - Rumelange instead of Bettembourg - Rumelange. I might yet manage all this today
No idea about the data. Let’s bike to Rumelange Luxembourg
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No idea about the data. Let’s bike to Rumelange Luxembourg
@jon Good luck, it is about 150 meters uphill from Thionville
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No idea about the data. Let’s bike to Rumelange Luxembourg
Volmerange
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Volmerange
I think this wasn’t the #CrossBorderRail
