Welcome to today's thread - #CrossBorderRail 2026 Tour Day 14 - 3 Apr - Ravières - Paris - Saarbrücken - Saarlouis - Bouzonville - Saarbrücken
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SNCF train manager comes to check tickets. I’m travelling with Interrail, it’ll take a second I tell him. “Is there a problem?” he asks me
We chat, and I explain the disappearing button. Just in case others he controls have the same issue
@jon speaking of which, I don't understand why Interrail app allows adding trips to expired passes. What purpose does it have? Why overcomplicate the UI? I don't get it.
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@jon speaking of which, I don't understand why Interrail app allows adding trips to expired passes. What purpose does it have? Why overcomplicate the UI? I don't get it.
@andrew_shadura I think they think you might use it even for days Interrail isn’t valid?
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And how am I getting from Ravières
to Bouzonville Via…
Obviously
Map 1: my route (in Green)
Map 2: the active railway line Béning - Bouzonville - Thionville (in Red) It’s double track electrified. But France runs no passenger trains on it
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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/
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@jon I’m still on iOS 26.3 and will avoid any updates, then.
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Genuine Interrail panic this morning
The Interrail app wouldn’t allow me to add a journey 🤯
No journey means no QR code to show to train managers…
Turns out: an iOS update broke it! You can’t SEE the Save button
Tap where I’ve circled and it works!
@jon It looks like a typical design error in dark modus.
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@jon I’m still on iOS 26.3 and will avoid any updates, then.
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@jon It looks like a typical design error in dark modus.
@vosje62 it’s not I think. It came with the update to 26.4. I don’t even have dark mode on as a setting.
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@stefanlindbohm @partim weirdly it only just happened as a problem. 2 weeks ago on 26.3.x it showed ok.
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@vosje62 it’s not I think. It came with the update to 26.4. I don’t even have dark mode on as a setting.
@jon I hope they come with a fix soon ...
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@stefanlindbohm @partim weirdly it only just happened as a problem. 2 weeks ago on 26.3.x it showed ok.
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@jon speaking of which, I don't understand why Interrail app allows adding trips to expired passes. What purpose does it have? Why overcomplicate the UI? I don't get it.
@andrew_shadura @jon It's possible to add journeys to any trip, regardless if they are connected to a pass or not. It's more consistent to be able to add to any trip than if past trips would disappear from view
As Jon suggests, a mix of Interrail and separate tickets in the same map view.
Not sure how it currently looks, but last year the map view didn't show past journeys if you had added future ones. I had a separate trip to show map view of trains so far.
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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/
Across Paris next #CrossBorderRail
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@andrew_shadura @jon It's possible to add journeys to any trip, regardless if they are connected to a pass or not. It's more consistent to be able to add to any trip than if past trips would disappear from view
As Jon suggests, a mix of Interrail and separate tickets in the same map view.
Not sure how it currently looks, but last year the map view didn't show past journeys if you had added future ones. I had a separate trip to show map view of trains so far.
@interrailinfosvenska @jon but what purpose does it serve? It clearly shows they’re expired, they’re not useful, why show them at all?
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@andrew_shadura I think they think you might use it even for days Interrail isn’t valid?
@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.
. I saw that half-baked glass stuff and just said ”nooooo thanks”. Will need to update soon for security updates though…