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

[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...

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[_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...