Concluding to a total of this #RailwayGeekend :

- 6 countries 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇦🇹 🇮🇹 🇨🇭 🇧🇪
- 2700 km
- 21 trains

#CrossBorderRail

That's the most direct connection, right ?

Part two of my #RailwayGeekend was :

- 950 km
- 8 trains :fr_ter: :fluo: , :fr_tgv: :fr_inoui: , :sncb:
- 2 countries 🇫🇷 🇧🇪

#CrossBorderRail

Now enjoying some Flamish 🇧🇪 cows 🐄 and landscape in :sncb: M6 carriages hauled by an :oebb: Taurus ... aaahm, sorry, the Belgian Siemens ES 2007 thingy, HLE 18 up to Oostende.

Bonus : I saw kissing AM 96 / Danish noses in Kortrijk 🇧🇪 !

SNCB has such wonderful InterCity rolling stock. It's a pity they don't have a) more HSL lines they can operate on and b) they have only that few international relations. #Edelweiss

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Crossed the way more serious border : from Wallonie 🇧🇪 to Flandre 🇧🇪 - oh no, everything in this German accent now 😱.

#CrossBorserRail #RailwayGeekend

Leaving country of baguette rail 🥖 now in a cute :sncb: AM 96 "Danish nose" to Courtrai 🇧🇪. Saying goodbye to blue high speed baguette on rails and now onwards to the Northern Sea 🦭. #RailwayGeekend #CrossBorderRail

Now enjoying a short break in #SalonGrandVoyageur Lille 🇫🇷. After lots of explanations and a phone call to Salon Grand.e Voyageuse.r Strasbourg 🇫🇷, they finally knew my BahnCard 100 permits to enter this lounge 😇. #RailwayGeekend

Amour Franco-Allemand : :fr_tgv: TGV Douplex Tallon fell in love with a :fr_tgv: TGV POS 🤩.

Oh, and I got the world record locomotive btw 😇.

Now onwards to #SalonGrandVoyageur Lille-Flandres and afterwards a cozy :fr_ter: to Belgium 🎉.

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Arriving in Paris 🇫🇷, time to organize some lunch. Options are highly limited when looking for vegan food.

After cursed offers like "vegan" cheese baguette, I finally found an fast food vendor able to make me a vegan "burger". While it's fine in regard of taste, it's definitely not saturating since it was only a few mushrooms and onions with bread.

Now taking a rest in :thalys: #ThalysLounge while waiting for my :fr_tgv: :fr_inoui: vers Lille 🇫🇷.

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Yay, now 1.5 h in an :sncf: :sncf_non: baguette rolling on baguette 🥖.

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France :sncf: :sncf_non: , the only country where both the railroad ties and the high speed trains are made out of Baguette 🥖.

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Anyone in #Paris later today 😶‍🌫️ ?

#BahnBubble #BubbleRails #RailwayGeekend

Where is my beloved tock tock ... tock tock tock ... tock tock AGC 🥺 ?

#RailwayGeekend #NoATERChallenge

This, dear #BubbleRails #BahnBubble is Schroedinger's A TER :

Whether it's canceled or not, you will only find out when standing at the station 🚉.

Glad it's operating today, taking this :sncf: :fr_ter: :fluo: A TER 🐳 up to #SalonGrandVoyageur Strasbourg 🇫🇷 before taking the :fr_tgv: :fr_inoui: to Paris 🇫🇷 🚄.

#RailwayGeekend

This #RailwayGeekend was :

- 5 countries 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇦🇹 🇮🇹 🇨🇭
- 13 trains
- 1700 km
- 2 canceled trains
- 1 hitchhiking tril
- 1 :db: powered taxi voucher
- 8 train brands :de_ice:, :oebb: :nightjet:, :milano_s:, :trenord:, :tilo:, :sob_rail:, :sbb:, :fr_ter: :fluo:

Excited for tomorrow's trip to #Paris, #Lille, #Oostende and #Anvers 🎉.

Okay, this #RailwayGeekend ends as it began : by replacement car to Lauterbourg. At least not by hitchhike, but by a DB Taxi voucher. The discussion was fun :

1. Wait an hour, walk 30 minutes - rejected
2. No worries, we give you a taxi voucher from Lauterbourg to Neulauterburg - no, that's not Germany, they cannot accept the voucher
3. Okay no idea, wait a moment
4. Well, we cannot do anything for you
5. You can call a taxi in Lauterbourg and later expense it - rejected
6. Finally a voucher

The original #Bienwaldbahn experience this weekend 😥. #LackGesoffen #CrossBorderRail

Okay, (not that) unexpected turn : Nyomming to Offenburg #RO.

This canceled :fr_ter: :fluo: is brought to you by the cooperation :db: Deutsche Bahn :sncf: SNCF.

Now ridiculously taking Deutsche Bahn via Offenburg 🇩🇪, Karlsruhe 🇩🇪 and Wörth 🇩🇪 for the inner-French relation Strasbourg 🇫🇷 - Lauterbourg 🇫🇷.

Now in an overcrowded :sweg: :stadlerherz: Regio Shuttle RS1 😓.

#RailwayGeekend #Bienwaldbahn #LackGesoffen

This, dear #BahnBubble, is a _real_ :kb_ic: InterCity.

Using this cutie, onwards to Basle 🇨🇭, my last stop before returning home to Alsace 🇫🇷.

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Oh, this cutie is SMILEing at me 🤩. From now on further by :kb_ic: after seeing many cute trains in Arth-Goldau.

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Now left the mountains with Switzerland showing its second face : lakes and cute trains, here an :sbb: class RADe 560.

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With the mountain railway line now turning towards its end, now enjoying the valley railway aside of the Reuss river up to the end of the high Alps in Altdorf.

#TrenoGottardo #RailwayGeekend