Welcome to today's thread - 2025 #CrossBorderRail Finale Day 4 - 11 June - Gdańsk – Lublin - Chełm - Dorohusk – Hrubieszów
Today's new borders:
Dorohusk 🇵🇱 - Yahodyn 🇺🇦
Hrubieszów 🇵🇱 - Izov 🇺🇦
Borders map, inc. borders re-crossed:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-all-the-borders_935041#10/51.0151/23.9859
Today's trains on the routes map:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2025-finale_1163738#8/52.611/21.297
Back south from Gdańsk, towards the Ukraine-Poland border, and Dorohusk where I was thrown off a train by a nasty guard in 2000 on an Interrail trip! Two PL-Ukraine border lines to examine, but from the Polish side.
Here's today's intro video: https://peertube.netzbegruenung.de/w/mZw88w3netfe88U4YPquJB
Bit of a gangster for today's #CrossBorderRail music track
Warszawa Centralna
Kaz Bałagane
I am not changing in Centralna, but this is close enough! And musically this one is a little strange.
Not #CrossBorderRail directly, but I've written an opinion piece for The Guardian about the stalling development of night trains in Europe, and why Nox - a new Berlin startup - has some interesting ideas how to solve some of the issues
@jon
I used my first two night trains in a decade just a couple of weeks back (nightjet in the D-A-CH area). I definitifely prefer it over flying, but I agree that newer rolling stock would be nice.
My main issue was the lack of space for luggage. It's an impossible task to store a suitcase with a week of belongings for every person in the compartment (which can happen, if you go on a holiday by train 😉). So people put them in the corridor, which makes it difficult to move arround the carriage.
