Welcome to today's thread - 2025 #CrossBorderRail Finale Day 8 - 16 June - Bruxelles- Köln - Hamburg, onto night train
Today's new borders:
None - I've been to Aachen a few times before 😀
Borders map, inc. borders re-crossed:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-all-the-borders_935041#18/50.71857/6.04204
Today's trains on the routes map:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2025-finale_1163738#6/55.198/11.206
Wave yourself up with this one this morning! Today's #CrossBorderRail music track
Nightrain
Guns N' Roses
I think I am going to need this to get myself to sleep on the SJ Night Train heading north later
Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupNightrain · Guns N' RosesAppetite For Destruction℗ 1987 Geffen RecordsReleased on: 1987-07-21Producer: Mike Clink...
#CrossBorderRail Finale Train 37 of 152
ICE 11
06:23 Bruxelles Midi - Köln Hbf 08:15
DB Fernverkehr
Train type: Siemens ICE3neo Velaro, 8 carriages
⚡️ (3kV dc, 25kV ac, 3kV dc, 25kV ac, 3kV dc, 15kV ac)
🚲: ✅ (needs reservation)
🦽: ✅ (lift on board or ramp on platform, but not step free)
🛜: ✅
🍽️: ✅
🧳: 🙂 (well designed)️
🧽: ☹️ (it wasn't cleaned overnight and is full of beer bottles, and I cleaned beer off my seat myself. Train manager was apologetic at least)
🎫 Interrail: 🙂 (accepted)
ICE 11
06:23 Bruxelles Midi - Köln Hbf 08:15
Distance: 222.9km
Average speed: 119km/h
4 stops:
Bruxelles-Nord
Liège-Guillemins
Aachen Hbf
Köln Hbf
This train, mapped: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2025-finale_1163738#10/50.7783/5.6476
The final big #CrossBorderRail tour - to the eastern borders of the EU, and missing intra-EU borders. In June-July 2025. Each day of the project is a Layer in the map - these should be displayed by default, or if not click the three layered diamonds icon "Open browser" to the left side of the map. The icons are all for borders, roughly coloured to differentiate the borders. A cross through a track means NO TRAINS CAN RUN. A cross through trains but not track means TRAINS CAN RUN BUT NO PASSENGER TRAINS. And TRAIN AND TRACK (no crosses) means there is a passenger service.
Hey Bundespolizei in Aachen!
We have a person on board with known connections to the Chinese secret service, and a proven record of trying to bring down the German state in an anti democratic manner
If your border controls are any use, this person should not be let through, surely?
Here's today's intro video, filmed from Gare du Midi
But I was a bit sweaty from having cycled there!
Meanwhile in France...
SNCF can now fine you up to €1500 for forgetting a bag somewhere
*YOU DO NOT STOP PEOPLE BEING FORGETFUL BY FINING THEM*
*AND NOT EVERY ABANDONED BAG IS A BOMB*
FFS
Let's make taking the train as nasty an experience as possible
https://www.journaldunet.com/patrimoine/finances-personnelles/1542323-hf1-nouvelle-amende-sncf/
On the point earlier in the thread about France's new fines for forgotten luggage, I think we should describe France has having a "passenger hostile railway" - as a term to describe how decisions are not taken in the passenger interest, the assumption of guilt, the hefty fines, the patronising announcements...
Is there a way to adequately translate this adequately into French? Wdzt @remi @tomtom @raph_v ?
#CrossBorderRail Finale Train 38 of 154
RE 1 (26810)
10:20 Köln Ehrenfeld - Horrem 10:28
National Express
Train type: Siemens Desiro HC EMU, 2x 2 single deck and 2 double deck carriages
⚡️ (15kV ac)
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (step free into single deck carriages)
🛜: ✅
🍽️: ⛔️
🧳: 🙂
🧽: 🙂
🎫 Interrail: 🙂 (accepted)
RE 1 (26810)
10:20 Köln Ehrenfeld - Horrem 10:28
Distance: 14.7km
Average speed: 110km/h
1 stops:
Horrem
This train, mapped: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2025-finale_1163738#13/50.9345/6.8162
The final big #CrossBorderRail tour - to the eastern borders of the EU, and missing intra-EU borders. In June-July 2025. Each day of the project is a Layer in the map - these should be displayed by default, or if not click the three layered diamonds icon "Open browser" to the left side of the map. The icons are all for borders, roughly coloured to differentiate the borders. A cross through a track means NO TRAINS CAN RUN. A cross through trains but not track means TRAINS CAN RUN BUT NO PASSENGER TRAINS. And TRAIN AND TRACK (no crosses) means there is a passenger service.
#CrossBorderRail Finale Train 39 of 154
S 19
10:59 Horrem - Köln Hbf 11:20
DB Regio AG NRW
Train type: Adtranz, Alstom LHB, ABB, Bombardier 423 EMU, 2x 4 short carriages
⚡️ (15kV ac)
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (step free, although not all trains on this line are)
🛜: ❓(forgot to check, but I think only renovated trains have wifi and this wasn’t renovated?)
🍽️: ⛔️
🧳: 😐 (not the best design, door vestibules are more cramped than they need be)
🧽: 🙂
🎫 Interrail: 🙂 (accepted)
S 19
10:59 Horrem - Köln Hbf 11:20
Distance: 18.4km
Average speed: 53km/h
7 stops:
Frechen-Königsdorf
Köln-Weiden West
Lövenich
Köln-Müngersdorf Technologiepark
Köln-Ehrenfeld
Köln Hansaring
Köln Hbf
This train, mapped: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2025-finale_1163738#12/50.9360/6.8378
The final big #CrossBorderRail tour - to the eastern borders of the EU, and missing intra-EU borders. In June-July 2025. Each day of the project is a Layer in the map - these should be displayed by default, or if not click the three layered diamonds icon "Open browser" to the left side of the map. The icons are all for borders, roughly coloured to differentiate the borders. A cross through a track means NO TRAINS CAN RUN. A cross through trains but not track means TRAINS CAN RUN BUT NO PASSENGER TRAINS. And TRAIN AND TRACK (no crosses) means there is a passenger service.
#CrossBorderRail Finale Train 40 of 154
ICE 1020
12:11 Köln Hbf - Hamburg Hbf 15:51
DB Fernverkehr
Train type: AEG, ABB, Henschel, Krauss, Krupp, Siemens ICE 1, 2 power cars and 9 carriages
⚡️ (15kV ac)
🚲: ⛔️
🦽: ✅ (needs lift on platform)
🛜: ✅
🍽️: ✅
🧳: 🙂
🧽: 🙂
🎫 Interrail: 🙂 (accepted)
ICE 1020
12:11 Köln Hbf - Hamburg Hbf 15:51
Distance: 436.9km
Average speed: 119km/h
6 stops:
Düsseldorf Hbf
Duisburg Hbf
Essen Hbf
Münster(Westf)Hbf
Hamburg-Harburg
Hamburg Hbf
This train, mapped: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2025-finale_1163738#7/52.266/8.399
The final big #CrossBorderRail tour - to the eastern borders of the EU, and missing intra-EU borders. In June-July 2025. Each day of the project is a Layer in the map - these should be displayed by default, or if not click the three layered diamonds icon "Open browser" to the left side of the map. The icons are all for borders, roughly coloured to differentiate the borders. A cross through a track means NO TRAINS CAN RUN. A cross through trains but not track means TRAINS CAN RUN BUT NO PASSENGER TRAINS. And TRAIN AND TRACK (no crosses) means there is a passenger service.
The southbound EuroNight 345 from Stockholm to Berlin is still more than 2 hours away from Hamburg is currently +733, so over 12 hours late
They are NOT taking it to Berlin, it will be serviced in Hamburg
And this train ought to be departing north as EN 346 with me on it from Hamburg at 22:03
What is going to happen I wonder? 🤔
Jon Worth
Maartje
Patrycja (140N)