Welcome to today's thread - #CrossBorderRail 2026 Tour Day 14 - 3 Apr - Ravières - Paris - Saarbrücken - Saarlouis - Bouzonville - Saarbrücken

[jon@gruene.social]

Welcome to today's thread - #CrossBorderRail 2026 Tour Day 14 - 3 Apr - Ravières - Paris - Saarbrücken - Saarlouis - Bouzonville - Saarbrücken

New borders:
None

Borders already crossed:
Saarbrücken - Forbach
Niedaltdorf - Bouzonville

Once a year – on Good Friday – there are special passenger trains on the otherwise freight only Dillingen – Niedatdorf – Bouzonville line, and I am determined, finally, I am going to take one!

Today's routes on the routes map:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2026-spring-tour_1361108#9/48.498408/4.674683

[jon@gruene.social]

Here’s today’s #CrossBorderRail intro video, complete with https://peertube.netzbegruenung.de/w/jNwANJ8GL5pZLHqcVmUmF4

[jon@gruene.social]

#CrossBorderRail 2026 Spring Tour Train 42 of 110
TER 91371
06:39 Nuits-sous-Ravières - Montbard 06:50
SNCF for TER Mobigo

Train type: Bombardier AGC Bi-mode MU, 4 short carriages
️ (1.5kV dc)
:
🦽: (step free if platform allows)
🛜: ️
️: ️
🧳:
🧽: - so 🤯 it’s BEEN CLEANED PEOPLE. MIRACLE!
Interrail: (accepted)

[jon@gruene.social]

TER 91371
06:39 Nuits-sous-Ravières - Montbard 06:50

Distance: 18.2km
Average speed: 99km/h

1 stops:
Montbard

This train, mapped: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2026-spring-tour_1361108#13/47.673884/4.274310

#CrossBorderRail

[jon@gruene.social]

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@gruene.social]

#CrossBorderRail 2026 Spring Tour Train 43 of 110
TGV 6760
07:05 Montbard - Paris Gare de Lyon 08:09
SNCF Voyageurs

Train type: Alstom TGV Duplex, 8 short double deck carriages, 2 power cars
️ (1.5kV dc, 25kV ac, 1.5kV dc)
: ️
🦽:
🛜:
️:
🧳: (it’s empty today so there’s space)
🧽:
Interrail: (needs compulsory reservation, costs min €10)

[jon@gruene.social]

TGV 6760
07:05 Montbard - Paris Gare de Lyon 08:09

Distance: 215.4km
Average speed: 202km/h

1 stops:
Paris Gare de Lyon

This train, mapped: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2026-spring-tour_1361108#9/48.234688/3.355845

#CrossBorderRail

[jon@gruene.social]

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

[partim@social.tchncs.de]

@jon Oh great. I’ll be on an Interrail on Monday. Do you have app version 51.6.0 as well?

[jon@gruene.social]

@partim 51.7.0

But I think it was the update to iOS 26.4 that was the core problem.

It does work - you just need to tap where I circled

[partim@social.tchncs.de]

@jon I’m still on iOS 26.3 and will avoid any updates, then.

[jon@gruene.social]

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 ‍️

[andrew_shadura@mastodon.social]

@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.

[jon@gruene.social]

@andrew_shadura I think they think you might use it even for days Interrail isn’t valid?

[jon@gruene.social]

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/

[samy@eupolicy.social]

@partim @jon
Given that it’s an important security update I wouldn’t put it off.
The button is there and works if you know where to look for it.
Better to inform the app creators of the issue, IMO.

[jon@gruene.social]

@samy @partim Interrail HQ is informed

[partim@social.tchncs.de]

@samy @jon Wasn’t the security update 26.1.3 (a)? I have that.

[patrick@mendeddrum.org]

@samy @partim @jon So do you all add journeys via My Pass? I usuallu use My Journey, where on the bottom you can add Next Leg. Then just activate it with the qr-button. Never used a save-button on that spot in your screenshot.

[samy@eupolicy.social]

@partim @jon
26.4 has +30 security fixes, including some significant ones.