Welcome to today's thread - #CrossBorderRail 2026 Tour Day 05 - 20 Feb - Genève - Coppet - Divonne - Crassier - Nyon - Paris

[cstross@wandering.shop]

@jon Meanwhile, in Scotland:

[bovine3dom@masto.ai]

@pglux.bsky.social yeah but have you considered that on est les seuls au monde avec ce savoir-faire unique

there are currently about the same number of TGVs sat in french graveyards awaiting scrappage as have ever been exported from France total (~50 for both)

@jon

[jupiter@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@jon
How... Is there the word "croissant" in this headline.

[jon@gruene.social]

@jupiter the pain au chocolat of trains wasn’t available

[markus@mast.uxp.de]

@jupiter @jon ...wave the baguette magique to get rid of the besoin croissant

[whvholst@eupolicy.social]

@jon You misspelled provincialism.

[rmsilva@mamot.fr]

@jon A portion of that track was reactivated a few years back up to Crozet and was used for trains collecting recyclables. But it only lasted a couple of years at most.

A sad thing to see

[otolithe@mastodon.social]

@jon @cstross yes, but we do it while smoking Gitanes and drinking wine, it makes all the difference . Also, we French kiss our trains.

[cstross@wandering.shop]

@otolithe @jon I like TGVs (when they're running on time and the ticketing works) but I couldn't eat a whole one!

[otolithe@mastodon.social]

@cstross @jon it’s true that they look like giant baguettes… and they’re full of meat

[acb@mastodon.social]

@cstross @jon I’ll be catching one of those (well, a cousin) in Australia in a couple of months. Given that Australia’s national motto is “she’ll be right, mate”, I doubt anyone I know will live to see the Melbourne-Sydney line electrified, or even brought up to 1970s British Rail average speed.

[jon@gruene.social]

Meanwhile Porajow might get a station. It’s in Poland but all its trains will go to Germany or Czechia. #CrossBorderRail

LOK Report - Polen: Die Anbindungen von Porajów nach Zittau und von Bogatynia nach Görlitz erhalten Vortrieb

Fotos Kleeblatt187/Wikimedia, Rolf-Dresden/Wikimedia. In Bogatynia (Reichenau in Sachsen) und den umliegenden Ortschaften im polnisc...

(www.lok-report.de)

[_hemmschuh@zug.network]

@jon
And in the french article, they write that a TGV could reach the 17 million km with the lifetime extension while the ICE 1 fleet already hit the 17 million km and will run 10 more years...