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

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I think this wasn’t the #CrossBorderRail

@jon I'd love to imagine someone placing that 30 metre stretch of track carefully straddling a border, presumably just to troll you.
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@jon I'd love to imagine someone placing that 30 metre stretch of track carefully straddling a border, presumably just to troll you.
@pseudomonas sadly it’s about 200m from the border!
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@pseudomonas sadly it’s about 200m from the border!
@jon So. close but no entry on your database.
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I think this wasn’t the #CrossBorderRail

Damn. I came the wrong way! The bus here runs Bijelo Polje
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Damn. I came the wrong way! The bus here runs Bijelo Polje
- Luxembourg
! #CrossBorderRailHere’s the location of the former #CrossBorderRail line
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Here’s the location of the former #CrossBorderRail line
Rumelange. This #CrossBorderRail is UNESCO listed.
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@jon I'd love to imagine someone placing that 30 metre stretch of track carefully straddling a border, presumably just to troll you.
@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
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Rumelange. This #CrossBorderRail is UNESCO listed.
The houses are in Luxembourg at the start of the video. The side road is in France. #CrossBorderRail
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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.
