Welcome to today's thread - #CrossBorderRail 2026 Tour Day 32 - 5 May - Strasbourg - Rumelange - Kirchberg - Wiltz - Libramont - Bruxelles
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@jon It might be sharing of the tariff data and SNCF issuing tickets for it independently? No third party can do that.
@jeanbaptistemarie Maybe you know if there are API’s resellers can use to connect directly to the régions? Or is it all through Connect/PAO?
@stefanlindbohm @jeanbaptistemarie or is there a Grenze station in Connect data but their search is just too crap to find which Grenze that Bettembourg is beyond?
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Welcome to today's thread - #CrossBorderRail 2026 Tour Day 32 - 5 May - Strasbourg - Rumelange - Kirchberg - Wiltz - Libramont - Bruxelles
New borders:
Rumelange
- Ottange 
Benonchamps
- Schimpach-Wampach A few dismantled lines at
borders – to at Rumelange, then west of Wiltz towards . And appropriately from Wiltz I will cycle through Bastogne, a town today without a railway station that is nevertheless rather famous for its bike race.On the routes map:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2026-spring-tour_1361108#8/49.728030/6.058960
@jon oh, Bastogne! The station building of Bastogne Sud still has a waiting room open for passengers (that now are waiting for the bus).
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Something’s wrong. The TER is crawling along.
Rather than tell us what’s wrong (which would be handy!) we’re being warned to not open the doors.
Priorities!
Shit show of a railway. The TER to Luxembourg didn’t wait 1 min for the incoming TER from Strasbourg.
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Shit show of a railway. The TER to Luxembourg didn’t wait 1 min for the incoming TER from Strasbourg.
Thanks for funding this, EU!
Could you maybe also tell SNCF how to organise an effing timetable?
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@stefanlindbohm @jeanbaptistemarie or is there a Grenze station in Connect data but their search is just too crap to find which Grenze that Bettembourg is beyond?
@jon Oh right, that might be why Connect fails to create a ticket. It might be looking for a tariff for Bettembourg frontier > Bettembourg, finding none and thus failing to create a price. While the région is using an inventory system (the one that creates tickets) that knows to just skip that segment.
We don’t integrate directly with SNCF Connect, but if it is possible to select border points in the API it might be possible as a reseller to get a ticket that way.
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Thanks for funding this, EU!
Could you maybe also tell SNCF how to organise an effing timetable?
So the plan now: blag my way onto a TGV (with Interrail), get to Thionville and bike from there to Rumelange
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Thanks for funding this, EU!
Could you maybe also tell SNCF how to organise an effing timetable?
@jon Already spray painted ?
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So the plan now: blag my way onto a TGV (with Interrail), get to Thionville and bike from there to Rumelange
Ok. Got the TGV. So now I’ve got to bike Thionville - Rumelange instead of Bettembourg - Rumelange. I might yet manage all this today
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Ok. Got the TGV. So now I’ve got to bike Thionville - Rumelange instead of Bettembourg - Rumelange. I might yet manage all this today
No idea about the data. Let’s bike to Rumelange Luxembourg
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No idea about the data. Let’s bike to Rumelange Luxembourg
@jon Good luck, it is about 150 meters uphill from Thionville
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No idea about the data. Let’s bike to Rumelange Luxembourg
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Volmerange
I think this wasn’t the #CrossBorderRail
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I think this wasn’t the #CrossBorderRail
@jon I'd love to imagine someone placing that 30 metre stretch of track carefully straddling a border, presumably just to troll you.
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@jon I'd love to imagine someone placing that 30 metre stretch of track carefully straddling a border, presumably just to troll you.
@pseudomonas sadly it’s about 200m from the border!
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@pseudomonas sadly it’s about 200m from the border!
@jon So. close but no entry on your database.
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I think this wasn’t the #CrossBorderRail
Damn. I came the wrong way! The bus here runs Bijelo Polje
- Luxembourg ! #CrossBorderRail
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Damn. I came the wrong way! The bus here runs Bijelo Polje
- Luxembourg ! #CrossBorderRailHere’s the location of the former #CrossBorderRail line
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Here’s the location of the former #CrossBorderRail line
Rumelange. This #CrossBorderRail is UNESCO listed.
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@jon I'd love to imagine someone placing that 30 metre stretch of track carefully straddling a border, presumably just to troll you.
@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 -
Rumelange. This #CrossBorderRail is UNESCO listed.
The houses are in Luxembourg at the start of the video. The side road is in France. #CrossBorderRail
