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)

Take your pick of high speed trains in Milano. And a Rock

It’s so nice travelling by train in Italy. Pity #CrossBorderRail hasn’t brought me here very much! (Not many borders)

FR 9618
10:56 Bologna Centrale - Milano Centrale 11:58

Distance: 214.4km
Average speed: 207km/h

1 stops:
Milano Centrale

This train, mapped: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2026-spring-tour_1361108#10/45.003718/10.273965

#CrossBorderRail

#CrossBorderRail 2026 Spring Tour Train 104 of 125
FR 9618
10:56 Bologna Centrale - Milano Centrale 11:58
Trenitalia

Train 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)

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…

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…

According to @hopla it looks like Régiolis is actually running France - Germany today, as planned https://zug.network/@hopla/116514407465211628

Also some panel in the interior of this ex-FYRA ETR700 is vibrating and rattling. Makes for a rather loud journey.

FR 8802
06:10 Rimini - Bologna Centrale 07:15

Distance: 110.9km
Average speed: 102km/h

4 stops:
Cesena
Forli
Faenza
Bologna Centrale

This train, mapped: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2026-spring-tour_1361108#11/44.285496/11.958625

#CrossBorderRail

#CrossBorderRail 2026 Spring Tour Train 103 of 125
FR 8802
06:10 Rimini - Bologna Centrale 07:15
Trenitalia

Train type: AnsaldoBreda ETR 700, 8 carriages
️ (3kV dc)
: ️
: (lift on platform)
🛜: (requires registration - annoying)
:
: (lousy for large luggage)
:
Interrail: (needs compulsory reservation, costs €13)

Here’s this morning’s #CrossBorderRail intro video https://peertube.netzbegruenung.de/w/iJnEA2Xj8XfLz4Qq5U3LnU

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

Some important #CrossBorderRail news!

After thinking about the idea for more than a decade (yeah, this is later than a DB train!) I am finally starting to plan building a railway organisation for lobbying work, and @patrick @partim & @redjives are in from the start. We're sort of soft launching today

Details
https://jonworth.eu/european-rail-passengers-union-lobbying-for-passengers-cross-border/

(And I’m probably not the person you ought to try telling this, given I’ve travelled on the railways in ALL of the 25 EU countries that have railways!)

And I’ve just been told - in all seriousness! - that this ticketing mess in France is all due to

The EU!

Amazing how the EU managed to do this TO FRANCE and not any of the other 24 EU countries that have railways

And really I’ve travelled on plenty of messed up railways

Most of the time the messed up-ness is due to a lack of resources. There aren’t people or money to do what’s right

That’s not the case for SNCF. There are plenty of people *but for the wrong things*

And no one who has done any process design

And if you’re a manager at SNCF and have never seen these problems, YOU ARE THE PROBLEM

Sure, skip the queue with your Carte Carmillon

But if you can’t put yourselves even partially in passengers’ shoes you’re failing at your job

Your *job* running a station is to get people to their trains as quickly and painlessly as possible

That’s it

If you’ve built passages too narrow to check tickets there then DON’T CHECK TICKETS THERE

Check on board instead

If your response is “that’s another part of SNCF” well then you’ve buggered up your organisation

In this mess of a railway, no one is empowered to think, to act, to take responsibility

Passengers crowded into a narrow passageway open access to a working escalator to decrease overcrowding

No way!

Rule says no!