Welcome to today's thread - #CrossBorderRail 2026 Tour Day 14 - 3 Apr - Ravières - Paris - Saarbrücken - Saarlouis - Bouzonville - Saarbrücken
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@interrailinfosvenska @jon but what purpose does it serve? It clearly shows they’re expired, they’re not useful, why show them at all?
@andrew_shadura @jon It's consistent at least. Besides, if the introduce conditions for where a journey can be added I'm sure theyl'll break something important. Bu use the feedback form in railplanner or some other way to express your wishes to interrail
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@jon wow, that’s quite a stretch of an assumption. Honestly, I’d rather not even use it for Interrail if I could. It’s such a terrible app.
@andrew_shadura I know. But they think that. Really. I told them at HQ no one in their right mind would do that, but
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Across Paris next #CrossBorderRail
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goes the bike tire - nail straight through it #CrossBorderRailAnd then get to Gare de l’Est and train departure is delayed. But rather than explain that or apologise for that, they’re busy making announcements about lost luggage. Priorities, eh! #CrossBorderRail
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And pop
goes the bike tire - nail straight through it #CrossBorderRail@jon Ouch
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@bebraw.bsky.social I have a repair kit. But will only try once I’m at Saarlouis.
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@jon Ouch
You got what’s needed to fix it ?@Sobex Yes! I have a repair kit.
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And then get to Gare de l’Est and train departure is delayed. But rather than explain that or apologise for that, they’re busy making announcements about lost luggage. Priorities, eh! #CrossBorderRail
@jon those luggage messages always remind me of this somewhat on topic french film: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aux_yeux_de_tous_(film%2C_2012)
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And what to do about Saarland - Lorraine - Luxembourg #CrossBorderRail will be the topic of my newsletter this week, going out at 14:00 today
Previous newsletters: https://jonworth.eu/tag/newsletter/
@jon This is gonna be an interesting read, as I am actually looking at potentially taking that crossing either from Luxembourg or Saarbrücken the week after next.
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@jon This is gonna be an interesting read, as I am actually looking at potentially taking that crossing either from Luxembourg or Saarbrücken the week after next.
@moof the Saarbrücken-Luxembourg bus works. Still a bus though.
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Welcome to today's thread - #CrossBorderRail 2026 Tour Day 14 - 3 Apr - Ravières - Paris - Saarbrücken - Saarlouis - Bouzonville - Saarbrücken
New borders:
NoneBorders already crossed:
Saarbrücken
- Forbach 
Niedaltdorf - Bouzonville Once a year – on Good Friday – there are special passenger trains on the otherwise freight only Dillingen – Niedatdorf – Bouzonville line, and I am determined, finally, I am going to take one!
Today's routes on the routes map:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2026-spring-tour_1361108#9/48.498408/4.674683
@jon oh. You will be in Saarbrücken today? Us too! Safe travels!
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@andrew_shadura I know. But they think that. Really. I told them at HQ no one in their right mind would do that, but
️@jon @andrew_shadura The stats page on journeys does read those trips, and people may put them in after the end of the trip, in order to have complete stats. People like those stats pages and don’t know about alternatives like @viaduct_world or https://trainlog.me which really rely on word of mouth, and there is a whole host of people who defend @traewelling and https://travelynx.de to the death, despite being difficult to use when not in real time.
I’ve had first time interrailers assume that the app is the only and best way to keep track of everything or even find train trips - and in some cases they aren’t even wrong, as a lot of the periphery isn’t covered by popular apps.
I’m not saying the Interrail app is good, but is it adequate for the job for an inexperienced traveller? Absolutely.
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@jon @andrew_shadura The stats page on journeys does read those trips, and people may put them in after the end of the trip, in order to have complete stats. People like those stats pages and don’t know about alternatives like @viaduct_world or https://trainlog.me which really rely on word of mouth, and there is a whole host of people who defend @traewelling and https://travelynx.de to the death, despite being difficult to use when not in real time.
I’ve had first time interrailers assume that the app is the only and best way to keep track of everything or even find train trips - and in some cases they aren’t even wrong, as a lot of the periphery isn’t covered by popular apps.
I’m not saying the Interrail app is good, but is it adequate for the job for an inexperienced traveller? Absolutely.
@moof, sure that’s a valid use case. What I actually want, I guess, is a button to "close" or "archive" a trip. I know I went to FOSDEM in February 2025, and I don’t want that to be offered each time I travel with Interrail, but I don’t want to delete it as I like to keep archive data.
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@bebraw.bsky.social ah true. I have a spare tube too. I’d forgotten
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@jon oh. You will be in Saarbrücken today? Us too! Safe travels!
@root42 going to Bouzonville too?
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@moof the Saarbrücken-Luxembourg bus works. Still a bus though.
@jon Oh, I’m going to Culmont-Chalindrey, on the Nancy-Dijon line, from Germany. I was trying to work out a non-Parisian route, and whether it was worth me doing the Saarbrücken crossing over the Aachen-Liege-Luxembourg crossing which was my default option.
Aachen, whilst twice as long a ride, is much more convenient for my earlier plans. I might still do the Saarbrücken crossing to add it to my map though.
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@root42 going to Bouzonville too?
@jon No, we will actually drive there using Cambio (shame on us). Sad fact is: It's simply cheaper and faster... Saarbrücken and #revision2026 is our destination.
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@moof, sure that’s a valid use case. What I actually want, I guess, is a button to "close" or "archive" a trip. I know I went to FOSDEM in February 2025, and I don’t want that to be offered each time I travel with Interrail, but I don’t want to delete it as I like to keep archive data.
@andrew_shadura @jon @viaduct_world @traewelling Oh, yeah, that’s somewhat annoying. More annoying is when you have a 2 month flex pass you’ve used up all ten days on, and are running on a new pass a month and a half later, and it keeps offering you the old one as an “active pass” because the days haven’t run out on it.
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And then get to Gare de l’Est and train departure is delayed. But rather than explain that or apologise for that, they’re busy making announcements about lost luggage. Priorities, eh! #CrossBorderRail
LOL
Ticket check in the #CrossBorderRail TGV to Saarbrücken, friendly SNCF train manager.
"How" - he asks me in French - "did you even get this Interrail reservation? Many passengers on this train have the wrong reservation"
For some reason today I have a SNCF one I booked with Rail Europe, and I explained that, and DB Passzuschlag to him, making it clear that this is *not easy* and SNCF not selling this for its own trains is ridiculous
But now he at least knows how to advise others!
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LOL
Ticket check in the #CrossBorderRail TGV to Saarbrücken, friendly SNCF train manager.
"How" - he asks me in French - "did you even get this Interrail reservation? Many passengers on this train have the wrong reservation"
For some reason today I have a SNCF one I booked with Rail Europe, and I explained that, and DB Passzuschlag to him, making it clear that this is *not easy* and SNCF not selling this for its own trains is ridiculous
But now he at least knows how to advise others!
Also it is pretty funny this train manager happened to ask me about all of this, given he - by luck - found about the most experienced and knowledgeable passenger he could have found, and one fluent in the three most useful languages for this train (French, English, German)
