Welcome to today's thread - #CrossBorderRail 2026 Tour Day 32 - 5 May - Strasbourg - Rumelange - Kirchberg - Wiltz - Libramont - Bruxelles
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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.
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Made it. Phew 🥵 #CrossBorderRail
Lëtzebuergesch is a funny language to read as a speaker of German and English!
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Lëtzebuergesch is a funny language to read as a speaker of German and English!
I know it’s the Lux tram. But *that* lux, with seats that light up?
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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. ️ #CrossBorderRail@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.
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@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.
@maha blame UIC. Really. They’ve been incapable for years of getting Euskotren data into the UIC Merits database.
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I know it’s the Lux tram. But *that* lux, with seats that light up?
@jon "lux" means "light", so makes sense, kind of?
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@jon "lux" means "light", so makes sense, kind of?
@pitrh that’s the play on words I was making, yes
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@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.
@maha You’re a passenger. Why does SNCF care about you? (Sorry)
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@pitrh that’s the play on words I was making, yes
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I know it’s the Lux tram. But *that* lux, with seats that light up?
I don’t have any data on these either. But I’m getting closer to my destination: the European Court of Auditors
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I don’t have any data on these either. But I’m getting closer to my destination: the European Court of Auditors
@jon A ride in that tram is what that side of Luxembourg (city) feels like. Extremely clean, sophisticated music choice, exuding that money-is-no-object vibe, ... yet lacking somewhat in personality, like it's detached from history
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@jon A ride in that tram is what that side of Luxembourg (city) feels like. Extremely clean, sophisticated music choice, exuding that money-is-no-object vibe, ... yet lacking somewhat in personality, like it's detached from history
@TimothyRoes right. Exactly that.
