Welcome to today's thread - #CrossBorderRail 2026 Tour Day 31 - 4 May - Rimini - Bologna - Milano - Lugano - Basel - Strasbourg
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Welcome to today's thread - #CrossBorderRail 2026 Tour Day 31 - 4 May - Rimini - Bologna - Milano - Lugano - Basel - Strasbourg
Borders already crossed:
Chiasso VG
- Como S. Giovanni 
Basel St Johann - St. Louis 
Kehl
- Krimmeri-Meinau First to Bologna for a breakfast meeting, then north across the Gotthard pass for the second time in just over a month. Today’s destination: Strasbourg to test a Régiolis.
Today's routes on the routes map:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2026-spring-tour_1361108#7/46.369674/9.920654 -
Here’s this morning’s #CrossBorderRail intro video https://peertube.netzbegruenung.de/w/iJnEA2Xj8XfLz4Qq5U3LnU
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#CrossBorderRail 2026 Spring Tour Train 103 of 125
FR 8802
06:10 Rimini - Bologna Centrale 07:15
TrenitaliaTrain type: AnsaldoBreda ETR 700, 8 carriages
️ (3kV dc)
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(lift on platform)
🛜: (requires registration - annoying)
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(lousy for large luggage)
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Interrail: (needs compulsory reservation, costs €13) -
FR 8802
06:10 Rimini - Bologna Centrale 07:15Distance: 110.9km
Average speed: 102km/h4 stops:
Cesena
Forli
Faenza
Bologna CentraleThis train, mapped: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2026-spring-tour_1361108#11/44.285496/11.958625
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Also some panel in the interior of this ex-FYRA ETR700 is vibrating and rattling. Makes for a rather loud journey.
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According to @hopla it looks like Régiolis is actually running France - Germany today, as planned https://zug.network/@hopla/116514407465211628
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About this Régiolis finally running, I’m not sure quite what to expect. I think today was determined most by operational logic, so I’m not sure there’ll be a big press thing about it.
But VP of Grand Est Philipps always makes a big song and dance about everything…
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Every time VP of Grand Est Philipps has uttered anything about these trains, the regional press has been all too happy to transcribe it
Today *when the train actually runs*: nothing (at least not yet)
Almost as if you need a press release to make news…
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#CrossBorderRail 2026 Spring Tour Train 104 of 125
FR 9618
10:56 Bologna Centrale - Milano Centrale 11:58
TrenitaliaTrain type: Hitachi Frecciarossa 1000 EMU, 8 carriages
️ (3kV dc, 25kV ac, 3kV dc): ️: (lift on platform and on board)
🛜: (needs registration): : (this carriage is ok - does it vary by carriage?):
Interrail: (needs compulsory reservation, costs €13) -
FR 9618
10:56 Bologna Centrale - Milano Centrale 11:58Distance: 214.4km
Average speed: 207km/h1 stops:
Milano CentraleThis train, mapped: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2026-spring-tour_1361108#10/45.003718/10.273965
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It’s so nice travelling by train in Italy. Pity #CrossBorderRail hasn’t brought me here very much! (Not many borders)
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Take your pick of high speed trains in Milano. And a Rock
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However these data problems here are incomprehensible
DB and SBB think the 12:43 train is to Lugano
Trenitalia thinks it only goes to the border station Chiasso
/ (It will go to Lugano)
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@jon I mean, it's not like trenord has formed a partnership with the swiss train company to run cross-border local train decades ago, how can you expect them to actually know that it's a cross-border train and not one that stops at the border?
(sigh. it would be really nice to know whether your train has started or not, when there are disruptions, and the train is coming from Switzerland, but no, they can't find a way to *share* data internationally, that's evidently impossible!)
