Welcome to today's thread - #CrossBorderRail 2026 Tour Day 32 - 5 May - Strasbourg - Rumelange - Kirchberg - Wiltz - Libramont - Bruxelles
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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
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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
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Lëtzebuergesch is a funny language to read as a speaker of German and English!
@jon This language clearly had a stroke. Which is no surprise as its speakers have the benefit of French vineyards and German portion sizes.
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@jon I didn't find those seats very lux(urious). My butt hurt when I sat on them longer than a short ride lol
@simonschre Yes! They’re rock hard!
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@jon Are they made by FIAT?
@happydisciple CAF!
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@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".
@corentin aaasgghhhhhhh. Having the data but not being able to show it is even worse!
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@jon What a pitty
@matschlegel this one was always likely hopeless. This is why it was the last LU-FR one I went to!
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Lëtzebuergesch is a funny language to read as a speaker of German and English!
@jon The more special I find this since Luxembourgish is not an official language of the European Union.
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@jon I don’t think there’s a bible version that opens with “Caf lux” though…
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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
After 75 minutes being grilled by the Court of Auditors for a report they’re writing about railways, I’m on my way again. Next: Wiltz
And this - as ever - is unpaid. Everyone else the Court will speak to has a job to allow them time for this. But as I’m self employed it’s just me, me giving my time. It’s nice to be asked of course!
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After 75 minutes being grilled by the Court of Auditors for a report they’re writing about railways, I’m on my way again. Next: Wiltz
And this - as ever - is unpaid. Everyone else the Court will speak to has a job to allow them time for this. But as I’m self employed it’s just me, me giving my time. It’s nice to be asked of course!
@jon
Did you tell them to ask all the others whether they got to Luxembourg by train?
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@jon
Did you tell them to ask all the others whether they got to Luxembourg by train?@notsoloud Mine was the first non-Webinar meeting!
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@notsoloud Mine was the first non-Webinar meeting!
@jon
An acceptable state of things
