Jump to: Text updates | Summary videos | Latest photos | Today’s background | Today’s route The best way to follow #CrossBorderRail as the trip develops is on social media There are always posts on Mastodon (@jon@gruene.social & #CrossChannelRail) Today’s live text updates Link to the archive of […]
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#CrossChannelRail, my latest project, starts Sunday 16th March and runs until Sunday 6th April. As with all of my #CrossBorderRail projects to date there will be lots of ways to follow it online. Every day there will be a thread on Mastodon – you can follow me @jon@gruene.social there. This […]
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It was inevitable the question would come: why is my #CrossChannelRail project taking me nowhere in the UK other than London, and along the HS1 line between London and the Channel Tunnel? The simple answer is that I had to draw a line somewhere – I cannot in a three […]
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For the past three summers, #CrossBorderRail journeys have happened every summer. So far I have been to 288 international railway lines in Europe, and – with a bit of experience now! – I know how to run these projects. But, I wondered, why not apply the same method to one […]
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When I went to Kumanovo in June of 2024 and found a railway station half complete, I must admit I did not think trains would run there any time soon. But this week I was proven wrong – the first part of the line that will eventually connect Skopje ion […]
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A full project page about #CrossChannelRail is now available here! Little did I know when I wrote it! My long analysis of through trains through the Channel Tunnel written a year became an unlikely hit – it’s the most read blog entry I have ever written. However there is […]
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