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:
None
Borders map, inc. borders re-crossed:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-all-the-borders_935041#11/55.5584/12.7750
Today's trains on the routes map:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2025-finale_1163738#7/56.867/11.980
Here's today's #CrossBorderRail music track
Hugo Alfven: Swedish Rhapsody No.1 "Midsommarvaka"
Frédéric Zosso
Thanks @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!
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!
#CrossBorderRail Finale Bus 12 of 22
Flixbus
08:00 Oslo S - Grums 10:36
Bus 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 🤷♂️
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?
I’m generally very resistant to vehicles having a physical impact on me
But once in a while the rocking of a bus - at some specific rhythm I suppose - just makes me keep on falling asleep
This is one such bus
I hope this doesn’t happen this way to the driver!
EL 15 locomotives parked up here in Grums. Built for Kiruna - Narvik iron ore trains, the remaining 5 now operate for Grenland Rail in Sweden
The design however… was much further developed in Romania by Electroputere (hundreds of similar locomotives still run there)
#CrossBorderRail Finale Train 49 of 155
R 363
12:40 Grums - Öxnered 13:58
SJ
Train type: Bombardier Regina EMU, 3 carriages
⚡️ (15kV ac)
🚲: ⛔️
🦽: ✅ (step free then lift up on board)
🛜: ✅
🍽️: ✅
🧳: 🙂
🧽: 🙂
🎫 Interrail: 🙂 (accepted 2nd class, compulsory reservation 1st class)
R 363
12:40 Grums - Öxnered 13:58
Distance: 128.2km
Average speed: 99km/h
4 stops:
Säffle
Åmål
Mellerud
Öxnered
This train, mapped: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2025-finale_1163738#9/58.8173/12.4036
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.
Lots of passengers wearing dark glasses on this train 😎
Not sure if it’s because they’re hung over from Midsommar or think they’re too cool
Probably a bit of both!
Åmål
Where they mostly didn’t film Fucking Åmål https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Show_Me_Love_(film)?wprov=sfti1
But it is 314km from Falun, as per the station building
SJ’s hostility to cyclists is quite something
This is a modern EMU adapted for all sorts of passengers - including those with large luggage, those with pets, and those in wheelchairs
But there’s no bicycle space. You could even fit bikes where these bags are currently placed
#CrossBorderRail Finale Train 50 of 155
R 13835
15:50 Öxnered - Herrljunga 16:43
(Boarded at Vänersborg)
SJ Västtågen
Train type: ABB X 14 EMU, 2 carriages
⚡️ (15kV ac)
🚲: ✅ (a Swedish train with bike places! 🎉)
🦽: ✅ (ramp on board)
🛜: ⛔️
🍽️: ⛔️
🧳: 🙂 (lots of multi use spaces)
🧽: 🙂
🎫 Interrail: 🙂 (accepted)
R 13835
15:50 Öxnered - Herrljunga 16:43
Distance: 68.6km
Average speed: 78km/h
6 stops:
Vänersborg Central
Vargön
Grästorp
Vara
Vedum
Herrljunga
This train, mapped: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2025-finale_1163738#11/58.2291/12.6514
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 51 of 155
R 184
16:53 Herrljunga - Falköping Central 17:08
SJ
Train type: Alstom X 40 EMU, 2x 3 double deck carriages
⚡️ (15kV ac)
🚲: ⛔️
🦽: ✅ (step free into lower level)
🛜: ✅
🍽️: ⛔️
🧳: 🙂 (for a double deck design good)
🧽: 😐 (bit grimy and worn)
🎫 Interrail: 🙂 (accepted)
R 184
16:53 Herrljunga - Falköping Central 17:08
Distance: 33.8km
Average speed: 135km/h
1 stops:
Falköping Central
This train, mapped: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2025-finale_1163738#12/58.1275/13.2866
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 52 of 155
R 7249
17:19 Falköping Central - Nässjö Central 18:39
SJ for Västtrafik
Train type: Bombardier Regina EMU, 3 carriages
⚡️ (15kV ac)
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (step free then lift on board, but disabled toilet broken)
🛜: ⛔️
🍽️: ⛔️
🧳: 😐 (enter the wrong door and it’s cramped)
🧽: 🙂
🎫 Interrail: 🙂 (accepted)
R 7249
17:19 Falköping Central - Nässjö Central 18:39
Distance: 112.4km
Average speed: 84km/h
9 stops:
Sandhem
Mullsjö
Habo
Bankeryd
Jönköping Central
Huskvarna
Tenhult
Forserum
Nässjö Central
This train, mapped: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2025-finale_1163738#10/57.9145/14.1216
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.
Sod it
Nässjö looks like absolutely Toten Hosen (German for: nothing happening) on a Sunday night
So I’m going to stop in Jönköping instead - which is more of a place - and then head to Nässjö to get my night train
Who said you can’t have a rocking experience in Jönköping? You have religious bands! 😀
There’s probably no god, so stop worrying and enjoy your #CrossBorderRail
NIGHT TRAIN FTW!
Departing Nässjö +125 mins
Buffer for my connection in Hamburg Hbf 204 mins…
06:00
I should have been in Hamburg…
… but instead I’m only just beyond Odense
The 09:24 Hamburg - Frankfurt (Main) Hbf is likely gone
If I can get the 10:24 I *might* still get home today…
@jon
Jönköping ain't called Little Jerusalem for nothing.
When I lived in Värnamo, some 60 kilometres south of Jönköping, I had an 800 metre walk between my flat and my office. During the walk I passed four churches. The most prominently placed church in the town is _not_ the Lutheran one.
@jon
"The Jesus Freak experience" is that drug rape? You'd think so, with what is coming out about the original Jesus Freak singer....
https://www.christianpost.com/news/ccm-star-michael-tait-accused-of-sexual-misconduct-drug-use.html
Die Toten Hosen were a band in the 80s.
Thought it may have been before your time 😌
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