Welcome to today's thread - #CrossBorderRail 2024 Extra Days 19 July - Olten - Singen (Hohentwiel) - Waldshut - Basel - Nuits-sous-Ravières

Crossing these borders:
Grenzach 🇩🇪 - Basel Badischer Bahnhof 🇨🇭
Waldshut 🇩🇪 - Koblenz 🇨🇭
Erzingen 🇩🇪 - Trasadingen 🇨🇭
Bietingen 🇩🇪 - Thayngen 🇨🇭
Jestetten 🇩🇪 - Neuhausen Rheinfall 🇨🇭
Lottstetten 🇩🇪 - Rafz 🇨🇭

These borders on the borders map:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-all-the-borders_935041#10/47.6261/8.2219

#CrossBorderRail 2024 Extra Days 19 July
Train 1/8
IR 2163
08:02 Olten - Zürich HB 08:54 (via Aarau)
SBB CFF FFS
63km/h
55km

Train type: Re460 locomotive hauling a mix of single and double deck carriages
⚡️
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (step free in double deck carriages)
🛜: ⛔️
🍽️: ⛔️
🧳: 🙂 (loads of space once inside)
🧽: 🙂

Here’s today’s intro video #CrossBorderRail

https://peertube.netzbegruenung.de/w/5SAsfMytneAFiPRRU5Axas

Swiss classic. The Swiss do manage to keep some very old trains in a good state…

As you might gather I’m having a really good time these days in Switzerland. After the sometimes tough trip in South East Europe, this is quite the contrast 🙂

#CrossBorderRail 2024 Extra Days 19 July
Train 2/8
IC 380
09:34 Zürich HB - Singen (Hohentwiel) 10:29
SBB CFF FFS, DB Fernverkehr AG
72km/h
66km

Train type: Stadler 6 carriage double deck EMU (ex-WESTbahn)
⚡️
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (step free)
🛜: ✅
🍽️: ✅ (basic snacks)
🧳: 🙂 (even though double deck it’s good!)
🧽: 🙂

So let’s do some #CrossBorderRail 🙂

In the next hour
Rafz 🇨🇭- Lottstetten 🇩🇪
Jestetten 🇩🇪 - Neuhausen Rheinfall 🇨🇭
Thayngen 🇨🇭- Bietingen 🇩🇪

Speeds are leisurely here

The alignment is old, the track winding

Lottstetten 🇩🇪 - Rafz 🇨🇭

You can see a road border beside the track 🙂

Jestetten 🇩🇪 - Neuhausen Rheinfall 🇨🇭

I couldn’t tell where the border was. So here’s the Rheinfall 🙂

In conversations over a beer last night there was an argument about whether this is a border

OpenRailwayMap implies not. Swiss maps do! 🙂

If it is, I crossed it!

And that’s Bietingen 🇩🇪 - Thayngen 🇨🇭

And if I count what can now be called Hugisauweg Corner 🇩🇪 🇨🇭 that’s 5 borders today already. 2 more to go 🙂

With the 2 yesterday I’m at 254 borders now