Welcome to today's thread - #CrossBorderRail 2026 Tour Day 32 - 5 May - Strasbourg - Rumelange - Kirchberg - Wiltz - Libramont - Bruxelles

[jon@gruene.social]

So the plan now: blag my way onto a TGV (with Interrail), get to Thionville and bike from there to Rumelange

[sobex@social.sciences.re]

@jon Already spray painted ?

[jon@gruene.social]

Ok. Got the TGV. So now I’ve got to bike Thionville - Rumelange instead of Bettembourg - Rumelange. I might yet manage all this today

[jon@gruene.social]

No idea about the data. Let’s bike to Rumelange Luxembourg

[smveerman@zug.network]

@jon Good luck, it is about 150 meters uphill from Thionville

[jon@gruene.social]

Volmerange

[jon@gruene.social]

I think this wasn’t the #CrossBorderRail

[pseudomonas@mastodon.social]

@jon I'd love to imagine someone placing that 30 metre stretch of track carefully straddling a border, presumably just to troll you.

[jon@gruene.social]

@pseudomonas sadly it’s about 200m from the border!

[pseudomonas@mastodon.social]

@jon So. close but no entry on your database.

[jon@gruene.social]

Damn. I came the wrong way! The bus here runs Bijelo Polje - Luxembourg ! #CrossBorderRail

[jon@gruene.social]

Here’s the location of the former #CrossBorderRail line

[jon@gruene.social]

Rumelange. This #CrossBorderRail is UNESCO listed.

[trantion@masto.ai]

@pseudomonas @jon does that mean the zip line from Spain to Portugal counts as a cross-border monorail?

Fuel: gravity
No WiFi
No meal service
Terrible for luggage
Interrail not accepted

[jon@gruene.social]

The houses are in Luxembourg at the start of the video. The side road is in France. #CrossBorderRail

[jon@gruene.social]

@trantion @pseudomonas please don’t get me to do cable cars. There are some alpine ones too!

[aschmitz@gruene.social]

@jon Remeleng!

[jon@gruene.social]

Made it. Phew 🥵 #CrossBorderRail

[meercat0@mastodon.social]

@jon doesn’t look like it

[maha@bahn.social]

@jon I will travel to Olomouc at the end of May. Only way: book on ČD app (not possible on DB navigator) and get reservation to Prague from DB.