Jon Worth
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Welcome to today's thread - 2025 #CrossBorderRail Finale Day 36 - 22 July - Bucuresti - Bârlad - Falciu - Galați - IC Bratianu – Tulcea

Today's new borders:
Falciu 🇷🇴 - Prut-2 🇲🇩
Galati 🇷🇴 - Giurgiulesti 🇲🇩

Borders map, inc. borders re-crossed:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-all-the-borders_935041#13/45.4409/28.2499

Today's trains on the routes map:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2025-finale_1163738#9/44.7857/27.1761
Jon Worth
@jon@gruene.social  ·  activity timestamp last week
#CrossBorderRail Finale Train 142 of 167
IR 12661
06:50 Bucuresti Nord - Bârlad 11:22
CFR Călători

Train type: Electroputere 40 locomotive initially, Electroputere 64 diesel later, 5 carriages
⚡️ (25kV ac), ⛽️
🚲: ⛔️
🦽: ⛔️
🛜: ⛔️
🍽️: ⛔️
🧳: 😐 (steep steps, but it’s ok once you’re in)
🧽: 😐 (I’ve seen worse in Romania - orderly but grimy)

🎫 Interrail: 😐 (needs compulsory reservation, costs 6 Lei / €1,30)
Jon Worth
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Today has been re-planned at short notice to try to understand the border at Falciu - Prut (Romania - Moldova) having not understood it when on the Moldova side. After that I head south to Galati (from there there's a railway line to Giurgiulesti in southern Moldova that I partially saw Moldovan side). And from there by ferry and bus it's on to end the day in Tulcea.
Jon Worth
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Here's today's #CrossBorderRail music track

Trenule mașină mică
Maria Tănase

Thanks @a_vsn for this one too - a Romanian classic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wSY9S-Cel0
Jon Worth
@jon@gruene.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Bump bump bump down a Hungarian branch line

Never let it be said I wasn’t thorough and determined with this #CrossBorderRail project

View from railbus back window. Rain on the windows
View from railbus back window. Rain on the windows
Jon Worth
@jon@gruene.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago
#CrossBorderRail Finale Train 108 of 165
R 33539
05:49 Balassagyarmat - Hatvan 07:40
MÁV Start

Train type: Vagonka Studenka 117 Bzmot Railbus, 1 short carriage and 1 short trailer
⛽️
🚲: ✅
🦽: ⛔️
🛜: ⛔️
🍽️: ✅/⛔️
🧳: 😐
🧽: 😐

🎫 Interrail: 🙂 (accepted, although train manager didn’t know what it was)
Jon Worth
@jon@gruene.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Welcome to today's thread - 2025 #CrossBorderRail Finale Day 23 - 9 July - Balassagyarmat - Hatvan - Somoskőújfalu - Fiľakovo - Číž - Turňa nad Bodvou - Košice

Today's new borders:
Šiatorská Bukovinka 🇸🇰 - Somoskoújfalu 🇭🇺
Lenartovce 🇸🇰 - Bánréve 🇭🇺
Turna nad Bodvou 🇸🇰 - Tornanádaska 🇭🇺

Borders map, inc. borders re-crossed:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-all-the-borders_935041#11/48.3727/20.3559

Today's trains on the routes map:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2025-finale_1163738#10/48.1762/20.2856
Jon Worth
@jon@gruene.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago
#CrossBorderRail Finale Train 103 of 165
S 9307
07:01 Komárom - Budapest-Kelenföld 08:03 (or maybe Keleti?)
MÁV Start

Train type: Stadler EMU, 4 short carriages (disappointing - this was meant to be an old comfy Ganz EMU)
⚡️ (25kV ac)
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (step free, but many stations not accessible)
🛜: ⛔️ (installed but not working)
🍽️: ⛔️
🧳: 🙂
🧽: 😐 (grimy windows)

🎫 Interrail: 🙂 (accepted)