Jon WorthMar 12

Welcome to today's thread - #CrossBorderRail 2026 Tour Day 13 - 12 Mar - Trieste - Milano - Zürich - Dijon - Ravières

New borders:
None

Borders already crossed:
Chiasso VG 🇨🇭 - Como S. Giovanni 🇮🇹
Basel St Johann 🇨🇭 - St. Louis 🇫🇷

Trieste to Ravières in a day. But due to France having such lousy timetables, this routes through Switzerland. It is ages since I crossed northern Italy by train, so I am looking forward to these trips!

Today's routes on the routes map:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2026-spring-tour_1361108#8/46.590957/8.992310

Show threadJon WorthMar 12

Here's today's #CrossBorderRail intro filmed earlier in Trieste
https://peertube.netzbegruenung.de/w/2qVxVCnCRqCciKnzfYPsDf

Today I am making the very well known cross-Europe trip - Trieste Centrale - Nuits-sous-Ravières

But because - of course! - nothing works with the timetables in France, I am going via Switzerland rather than direct from Italy to France

#CrossBorderRail live stream - 3/12/2026, 5:54:29 AM

PeerTube
Show threadJon WorthMar 12

This one should strike FYRA into you!

#CrossBorderRail 2026 Spring Tour Train 37 of 86
FR 9718
07:07 Trieste Centrale - Milano Centrale 11:15
Trenitalia

Train type: AnsaldoBreda ETR 700 EMU, 7 carriages
⚡️ (3kV dc, 25kV ac, 3kV dc)
🚲: ⛔️
🦽: ✅ (lift on platforms)
🛜: ✅ (but 😡 it needs a silly registration)
🍽️: ✅
🧳: 😐 (there's only one small rack for large bags, were it full it would struggle)️
🧽: 🙂
Interrail: 😐 (needs compulsory reservation, costs €13)

Show threadJon WorthMar 12

FR 9718
07:07 Trieste Centrale - Milano Centrale 11:15

Distance: 401.9km
Average speed: 97km/h

10 stops:
Monfalcone
Trieste Airport
Portogruaro-Caorle
Venezia Mestre
Padova
Vicenza
Verona Porta Nuova
Desenzano del Garda-Sirmione
Brescia
Milano Centrale

This train, mapped: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2026-spring-tour_1361108#9/45.615913/11.487165

#CrossBorderRail

#CrossBorderRail 2026 Spring Tour

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.

uMap
Show threadJon WorthMar 12

The ticket control here on this Frecciarossa is sensible, for a compulsory reservation train (OK, comp res is silly, but bear with me)

The train manager has the seat plan on their device, so they can see which seats are newly occupied at every station, and only goes to check those passengers' tickets

Why does SNCF not do that on TGVs?

Because it'd mean the train manager has to go along the train after every station and that's too much effort?

Show threadJon WorthMar 12

So how is the ex-FYRA ETR 700?

It's OK

The interior is rather bland, the colours resembling something from a doctor's surgery. There is noticeable noise from the motors, more than in some other EMUs. But the ride is smooth, the seats fine, the wifi works

Show threadWalter van Holst
@jon They never were bad comfort-wise. Just horribly unreliable. Glad some operator can make them work.
Mar 12 at 8:26amWeb
Show threadsamuele963Mar 12
@whvholst @jon Yep. I've taken them quite often since they're common on routes to the northeast (Venice/Trieste/Udine), and while not amazing by any means they work well enough. The bar car is a bit disappointing though