Welcome to today's thread - #CrossBorderRail 2026 Tour Day 07 - 4 Mar - Almere - Utrecht - Arnhem - Duisburg
New borders:
None
Borders already crossed:
Emmerich 🇩🇪 - Zevenaar 🇳🇱
Speech at RailTech Utrecht, followed by a meeting of European Rail Passengers Union. And then onwards to Germany to end the day, to be able to make a early start tomorrow towards Hungary.
Today's routes on the routes map:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2026-spring-tour_1361108#10/51.901068/5.962185
Here’s today‘s #CrossBorderRail intro video, sorry for loud train noise behind!
#CrossBorderRail 2026 Spring Tour Train 18 of 80
RE 4925
08:24 Almere Muziekwijk - Utrecht Centraal 09:05
NS
Train type: Bombardier SLT 2400 EMU, 2x 4 short carriages
⚡️ (1.5kV dc)
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (step free)
🛜: ⛔️
🍽️: ⛔️
🧳: 😐 (not the best - poor racks, needs more space in vestibules)
🧽: 😐 (windows grimy)
Interrail: 🙂 (accepted)
RE 4925
08:24 Almere Muziekwijk - Utrecht Centraal 09:05
Distance: 42.4km
Average speed: 69km/h
6 stops:
Almere Poort
Naarden-Bussum
Hilversum
Hilversum Sportpark
Utrecht Overvecht
Utrecht Centraal
This train, mapped: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2026-spring-tour_1361108#11/52.228827/5.129720
Tours in Spring 2026. 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.
My workshop about #CrossChannelRail is first, at 10:10
There aren’t many people in the hall yet. And do people who care about track fastenings care about this? We‘ll see 🤔
No live stream though sadly
Quick escape from RailTech and walk into Utrecht
Utrecht Centraal is both rather uncharming and amazing. The amazing passenger/rail/bike capacity here is impressive
@jon there is a pedestrian bridge passing all platforms, but without a connection to each platform.
That is the major criticism on the station of Utrecht.
Jon Worth
ReindeR Rustema
Eric Plankeel