Jon Worth16h ago

Welcome to today's thread - #CrossBorderRail 2026 Tour Day 16 - 5 Apr - Xanten - Goch - Cuijk - Venlo - Eindhoven - Rotterdam - Paris - Ravières

New borders:
Hassum 🇩🇪 - Gennep 🇳🇱
Straelen 🇩🇪 - Venlo 🇳🇱

Borders already crossed:
Antwerpen Centraal 🇧🇪 - Rotterdam Centraal 🇳🇱 HSL
Lille 🇫🇷 - Bruxelles 🇧🇪 HSL

Two dismantled lines at the Germany-Netherlands border, the only former rail lines I am missing here

Today's routes on the routes map:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2026-spring-tour_1361108#7/49.873355/4.398453

Show threadJon Worth16h ago

Here’s today‘s #CrossBorderRail intro video. Damn I wasn’t really awake when filming this!

https://peertube.netzbegruenung.de/w/5Qa9h1SgPABTnf9zKYnUbZ

#CrossBorderRail live stream - 4/5/2026, 4:53:41 AM

PeerTube
Show threadJon Worth16h ago

#CrossBorderRail 2026 Spring Tour Bus 6 of 11
X28
07:28 Xanten Bhf - Goch Bhf 08:09
Niederrheinische Verkehrsbetriebe Ag

Bus type: Mercedes Citaro 2 axle
⛽️
🚲: ⛔️
🦽: ✅
🛜: ⛔️
🍽️: ⛔️
🧳: 🙂
🧽: 🙂

Show threadJon Worth16h ago
First bus on a Easter Sunday: not many passengers!
Show threadJon Worth16h ago

I‘m confused

I’m on the Boxteler Bahn and it’s a bus!

Show threadJon Worth16h ago

#CrossBorderRail 2026 Spring Tour Bike 10 of 20
Goch - Cuijk, via Gennep

Distance: 26km
Est. duration: 1:45

This bike route, mapped: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2026-spring-tour_1361108#13/51.705864/6.016903

Show threadJon Worth16h ago
No Gochness today! #CrossBorderRail
Show threadJon Worth16h ago
The Boxteler Bahn is blocked by an Absinth company #CrossBorderRail
Show threadJon Worth15h ago
Nice border! The Zollbeamter can’t control me as he’s made of wood #CrossBorderRail
Show threadJon Worth15h ago

There‘s #CrossBorderRail

Hassum 🇩🇪 - Gennep 🇳🇱

Show threadJon Worth13h ago

#CrossBorderRail 2026 Spring Tour Train 53 of 111
RS11 (32233)
10:22 Cuijk - Venlo 11:01
Arriva Nederland

Train type: Stadler DMU, 2 short carriages
⛽️
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (step free)
🛜: ✅
🍽️: ⛔️
🧳: 😐 (door areas aren’t cleverly designed)
🧽: 🙂
Interrail: 🙂 (accepted)

Show threadJon Worth13h ago

RS11 (32233)
10:22 Cuijk - Venlo 11:01

Distance: 46.7km
Average speed: 72km/h

5 stops:
Boxmeer
Vierlingsbeek
Venray
Blerick
Venlo

This train, mapped: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2026-spring-tour_1361108#11/51.546154/6.022750

#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.

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Show threadThomasToSpace
@jon The amount of times I've taken that train haha. Where are you going next?
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Show threadJon Worth13h ago
@thomastospace around Venlo for an hour. Then to Eindhoven, Rotterdam, then Eurostar to Paris.