Welcome to today's thread - 2025 #CrossBorderRail Finale Day 13 - 22 June - Oslo - Grums - Öxnered - Herrljunga - Falköping - Nässjö, onto night train
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Welcome to today's thread - 2025 #CrossBorderRail Finale Day 13 - 22 June - Oslo - Grums - Öxnered - Herrljunga - Falköping - Nässjö, onto night train
Today's new borders:
NoneBorders map, inc. borders re-crossed:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-all-the-borders_935041#11/55.5584/12.7750Today's trains on the routes map:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2025-finale_1163738#7/56.867/11.980 -
Welcome to today's thread - 2025 #CrossBorderRail Finale Day 13 - 22 June - Oslo - Grums - Öxnered - Herrljunga - Falköping - Nässjö, onto night train
Today's new borders:
NoneBorders map, inc. borders re-crossed:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-all-the-borders_935041#11/55.5584/12.7750Today's trains on the routes map:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2025-finale_1163738#7/56.867/11.980The geniuses at Trafikverket in Sweden have managed to close both lines from Norway (towards Stockholm and towards Göteborg) on the same weekend, so instead I am crossing the border by bus, and then heading south east across southern Sweden before boarding the night train southwards.
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The geniuses at Trafikverket in Sweden have managed to close both lines from Norway (towards Stockholm and towards Göteborg) on the same weekend, so instead I am crossing the border by bus, and then heading south east across southern Sweden before boarding the night train southwards.
Here's today's #CrossBorderRail music track
Hugo Alfven: Swedish Rhapsody No.1 "Midsommarvaka"
Frédéric ZossoThanks @Jonas_Bostrom for this one - the right time of year!
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Here's today's #CrossBorderRail music track
Hugo Alfven: Swedish Rhapsody No.1 "Midsommarvaka"
Frédéric ZossoThanks @Jonas_Bostrom for this one - the right time of year!
Here's this morning's intro video, explaining what I am trying to do today!
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Here's this morning's intro video, explaining what I am trying to do today!
Over there a recovery truck is picking up a FlixBus, presumably the one that was meant to operate my service to Grums…
We’re delayed 30 mins.
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Over there a recovery truck is picking up a FlixBus, presumably the one that was meant to operate my service to Grums…
We’re delayed 30 mins.
Now a further 30 mins delay announced
If I miss the train in Grums... my only option is to stay longer on the Flixbus, as far as Örebro
Might be an interesting argument: "Your bus was late, so I missed my train, so now you need to let me stay on it longer!"
It's almost like a real live case of the problems of Multimodal Digital Mobility Services the Commission is trying to legislate about!
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Now a further 30 mins delay announced
If I miss the train in Grums... my only option is to stay longer on the Flixbus, as far as Örebro
Might be an interesting argument: "Your bus was late, so I missed my train, so now you need to let me stay on it longer!"
It's almost like a real live case of the problems of Multimodal Digital Mobility Services the Commission is trying to legislate about!
#CrossBorderRail Finale Bus 12 of 22
Flixbus
08:00 Oslo S - Grums 10:36Bus type: Volvo 9700, 2 axles
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(not officially, but there would be space in the hold)
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#CrossBorderRail Finale Bus 12 of 22
Flixbus
08:00 Oslo S - Grums 10:36Bus type: Volvo 9700, 2 axles
️: (not officially, but there would be space in the hold)
🦽:️
🛜:️️: ️
🧳: (hold is huge)
🧽:But rather than getting us going a bit earlier, the driver is now smoking a cigarette
Priorities
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But rather than getting us going a bit earlier, the driver is now smoking a cigarette
Priorities
️I simply do not see why anyone *by choice* would favour a bus over a train
Other than Lux Express in the Baltics (that strikes me as a genuinely good company) I’d very happily give all the others a miss
Edit: as people are going “but buses are cheaper!” - I get why then you’d take a bus! But if all else were equal?
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I simply do not see why anyone *by choice* would favour a bus over a train
Other than Lux Express in the Baltics (that strikes me as a genuinely good company) I’d very happily give all the others a miss
Edit: as people are going “but buses are cheaper!” - I get why then you’d take a bus! But if all else were equal?
@jon
The VY bus Copenhagen-Oslo was also really nice, especially on business class. But would have taken the train if it ran.
