Downloading the photos from this little #CrossBorderRail #CrossChannelRail trip
This one
"You mean you're ever going to run trains to London FROM HERE?"
Lancy-Pont-Rouge 🇨🇭
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
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#CrossBorderRail 2026 Spring Tour Bike 4 of 14
Coppet - Divonne - Crassier - Nyon
Distance: 16.7km
Est. duration: 1:15
This bike route, mapped: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2026-spring-tour_1361108#13/46.199875/6.146772
Not a good start. Broke the Birdy travel cover and had to repair a brake cable…
For example: Here’s Germany extending the life of its oldest ICEs by 10 years
#CrossBorderRail 2026 Spring Tour Bike 4 of 14
Coppet - Divonne - Crassier - Nyon
Distance: 16.7km
Est. duration: 1:15
This bike route, mapped: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2026-spring-tour_1361108#13/46.199875/6.146772
Not a good start. Broke the Birdy travel cover and had to repair a brake cable…
Welcome to today's thread - #CrossBorderRail 2026 Tour Day 05 - 20 Feb - Genève - Coppet - Divonne - Crassier - Nyon - Paris
New borders:
Crassier-La Rippe 🇨🇭 - Divonne-les-Bains 🇫🇷
Borders already crossed:
Russin 🇨🇭 - Pougny-Chancy 🇫🇷
A former cross border railway line at Divonne les Bains – and oddly it looks to be more intact in France than in Switzerland. I wonder if there is any way to re-activate it? Then back to Paris on a Lyria.
Today's routes on the routes map:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2026-spring-tour_1361108#8/47.489406/4.305239
Today’s #CrossBorderRail I’m doing the opposite way to how I first planned it. Nyon - Divonne - Coppet. The data and mapping will have to wait!
Welcome to today's thread - #CrossBorderRail 2026 Tour Day 05 - 20 Feb - Genève - Coppet - Divonne - Crassier - Nyon - Paris
New borders:
Crassier-La Rippe 🇨🇭 - Divonne-les-Bains 🇫🇷
Borders already crossed:
Russin 🇨🇭 - Pougny-Chancy 🇫🇷
A former cross border railway line at Divonne les Bains – and oddly it looks to be more intact in France than in Switzerland. I wonder if there is any way to re-activate it? Then back to Paris on a Lyria.
Today's routes on the routes map:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2026-spring-tour_1361108#8/47.489406/4.305239
Quixoticgeek
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Presented without comment #CrossBorderRail
And today’s third #CrossBorderRail - site of the future tramway to St Julien en Genèvois
Saint-Julien-en-Genevois 🇫🇷 - Perly 🇨🇭
The road is busy and narrow though. This is going to be tricky to do!
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Presented without comment #CrossBorderRail
Here’s today’s second #CrossBorderRail
Bernex 🇨🇭 - St-Julien en Genevois 🇨🇵 (Future extension of Leman Express)
It’s only an idea. You’d disturb some agriculture to do it, but you can see how you could do it
And today’s third #CrossBorderRail - site of the future tramway to St Julien en Genèvois
Saint-Julien-en-Genevois 🇫🇷 - Perly 🇨🇭
The road is busy and narrow though. This is going to be tricky to do!
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Hess battery buses and Mercedes diesel ones. Saves me from some wet cycling! #CrossBorderRail
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Here’s today’s second #CrossBorderRail
Bernex 🇨🇭 - St-Julien en Genevois 🇨🇵 (Future extension of Leman Express)
It’s only an idea. You’d disturb some agriculture to do it, but you can see how you could do it
Sabrina Web :privacypride: 📎
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🚨 Our latest episode has just chugged into your podcast platforms 🚂
This week, we're chatting with @jon about Europe’s train woes, the fight for better cross-border travel, and the new European Rail Passengers’ Union.
Plus: social media bans for youth, an Olympics broadcast fail, and a herd of crime-fighting llamas 🦙.
https://www.europeanspodcast.com/all-episodes/when-will-europe-get-the-trains-it-deserves
🚨 Our latest episode has just chugged into your podcast platforms 🚂
This week, we're chatting with @jon about Europe’s train woes, the fight for better cross-border travel, and the new European Rail Passengers’ Union.
Plus: social media bans for youth, an Olympics broadcast fail, and a herd of crime-fighting llamas 🦙.
https://www.europeanspodcast.com/all-episodes/when-will-europe-get-the-trains-it-deserves
Weather is foul so I’m taking a bus across Genève. It goes via… err… Ravières. Not that one 😀 #CrossBorderRail
Hess battery buses and Mercedes diesel ones. Saves me from some wet cycling! #CrossBorderRail
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Quixoticgeek
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So that’s border 400 #CrossBorderRail
I had thought I’d hit 400 already, but had to re-categorise some
Former and future tramway north of Geneva
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So that’s border 400 #CrossBorderRail
I had thought I’d hit 400 already, but had to re-categorise some
Former and future tramway north of Geneva
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Weather is foul so I’m taking a bus across Genève. It goes via… err… Ravières. Not that one 😀 #CrossBorderRail
Ferney 🇫🇷 - Grand Saconnex 🇨🇭
So that’s border 400 #CrossBorderRail
I had thought I’d hit 400 already, but had to re-categorise some
Former and future tramway north of Geneva
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Welcome to today's thread - #CrossBorderRail 2026 Tour Day 04 - 19 Feb - Around Genève
New borders:
Ferney 🇫🇷 - Grand Saconnex 🇨🇭 (Former 1000mm Geneva tramway)
Saint-Julien-en-Genevois 🇫🇷 - Perly 🇨🇭 (Former 1000mm Geneva tramway)
Veigy-Foncenex 🇫🇷 - Maisons Neuves 🇨🇭 (Former 1000mm Geneva tramway)
Bernex 🇨🇭 - St-Julien en Genevois 🇨🇵 (Future extension of Leman Express)
Borders already crossed:
None
Today's routes on the routes map:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2026-spring-tour_1361108#13/46.199875/6.146776
#CrossBorderRail and #CrossChannelRail on one day! Completing the missing former and future Genève tramway borders, and one future Léman Express border, and checking alternative locations for a London terminal in Genève.
Welcome to today's thread - #CrossBorderRail 2026 Tour Day 04 - 19 Feb - Around Genève
New borders:
Ferney 🇫🇷 - Grand Saconnex 🇨🇭 (Former 1000mm Geneva tramway)
Saint-Julien-en-Genevois 🇫🇷 - Perly 🇨🇭 (Former 1000mm Geneva tramway)
Veigy-Foncenex 🇫🇷 - Maisons Neuves 🇨🇭 (Former 1000mm Geneva tramway)
Bernex 🇨🇭 - St-Julien en Genevois 🇨🇵 (Future extension of Leman Express)
Borders already crossed:
None
Today's routes on the routes map:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2026-spring-tour_1361108#13/46.199875/6.146776
Quixoticgeek
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I’ve seen some pretty weird stuff on #CrossBorderRail but for the sheer “no one even thought about the passengers”-ness this is one of the most extreme cases I’ve seen. Anywhere.
#CrossBorderRail 2026 Spring Tour Train 7 of 80
TER 39552
09:26 Culmont Chalindrey - Paris Est 12:16
SNCF for TER Fluo Grand Est
Train type: Alstom Coradia Bi-mode MU, 6 short carriages
⛽️, ⚡️ (25kV ac)
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (step free if station allows)
🛜: ⛔️
🍽️: ⛔️
🧳: 🙂
🧽: 🙂
Interrail: 😐 (needs compulsory reservation, costs €1,70)
TER 39552
09:26 Culmont Chalindrey - Paris Est 12:16
Distance: 307.1km
Average speed: 108km/h
8 stops:
Langres
Chaumont
Bar-sur-Aube
Vendeuvre
Troyes
Romilly-sur-Seine
Nogent-sur-Seine
Paris Est
This train, mapped: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2026-spring-tour_1361108#9/48.361724/3.900146
I’ve seen some pretty weird stuff on #CrossBorderRail but for the sheer “no one even thought about the passengers”-ness this is one of the most extreme cases I’ve seen. Anywhere.
#CrossBorderRail 2026 Spring Tour Train 7 of 80
TER 39552
09:26 Culmont Chalindrey - Paris Est 12:16
SNCF for TER Fluo Grand Est
Train type: Alstom Coradia Bi-mode MU, 6 short carriages
⛽️, ⚡️ (25kV ac)
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (step free if station allows)
🛜: ⛔️
🍽️: ⛔️
🧳: 🙂
🧽: 🙂
Interrail: 😐 (needs compulsory reservation, costs €1,70)