Welcome to today's thread - #CrossBorderRail 2026 Tour Day 32 - 5 May - Strasbourg - Rumelange - Kirchberg - Wiltz - Libramont - Bruxelles
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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.
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Lëtzebuergesch is a funny language to read as a speaker of German and English!
@jon Ich befasse mich hin und wieder mal mit Luxemburgisch und habe dadurch Ende 2022 Kontakt um Luxemburger Linguisten Jerome Lulling geknüpft, mit dem ich bis heute in recht gutem Austausch stehe. Immer dann, wenn ich in Luxemburg bin, gerauche ich Luxemburgisch, sofern möglich und switche auf Deutsch, sobald ich an meine Grenzen stoße.
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Lëtzebuergesch is a funny language to read as a speaker of German and English!
@jon as someone who's studied German, and is trying to learn Dutch, spending any time in Luxembourg utterly fucks my language centres.
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I know it’s the Lux tram. But *that* lux, with seats that light up?
@jon I didn't find those seats very lux(urious). My butt hurt when I sat on them longer than a short ride lol
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Lëtzebuergesch is a funny language to read as a speaker of German and English!
@jon like dutch?
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Lëtzebuergesch is a funny language to read as a speaker of German and English!
@jon Mix in Kiwi for extra fun. “It’s wichtig as, bro!”
(Also: When RTL entered the Dutch TV market with RTL-Véronique as “A Luxembourg TV channel honest *hem* *hem*” they’d have something like 1h of programming in Lëtzebuergesch per day (yay Hei Elei Kuck Elei), which was really confusing. “It _sounds_ like Dutch, but I cannot understand a word of it, am I having a stroke? Is the TV?”)
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I know it’s the Lux tram. But *that* lux, with seats that light up?
@jon Are they made by FIAT?
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@maha blame UIC. Really. They’ve been incapable for years of getting Euskotren data into the UIC Merits database.
@jon That‘s surprising! Since Euskotrain is operating internationally by design.
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@maha You’re a passenger. Why does SNCF care about you? (Sorry)
@jon I see!
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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 Looks like it is (once again) a weird SNCF Connect bug on some morning departures: it works for all the other trains of the day, and it does work if you click on "direct trains only".
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Here’s the location of the former #CrossBorderRail line
@jon What a pitty
