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It's the losses of "Empires" at the end of WW1 that brought most of these weird borders into existence, mostly based on land ownership in past centuries.
This notably affects places in the Austro-Hungarian, Russian and Ottoman empires, now divided into many individual states.
As built, Warsaw-St Petersburg had no borders en route, and Berlin-St Petersburg only one, entering what is now Lithuania from East Prussia (with a gauge change).
Vienna-Trieste was another route originally without borders, and under a single railway management (the Südbahn).
If Vienna-Istanbul had been completed to the original 1860s plan, there would only have been one border, across the Una river at Dobrlijn (now the unused Croatia/Bosnia border between Zagreb and Banja Luka).
Zittau's history is fascinating, having been at different times part of Bohemia, Saxony, Poland and Hungary.
We will face the same sort of situation if Wales becomes independent, not so much with Scotland as no lines there cross the border multiple times.
Ireland had a similar situation with the Great Northern lines at partition, but today there is only the one cross-border line, between Dundalk and Newry.
GN, later CIE/NIR, used to run trains from Dublin to Bundoran on the west coast until 1957, with a "corridor" loop through Enniskillen in Northern Ireland.
This notably affects places in the Austro-Hungarian, Russian and Ottoman empires, now divided into many individual states.
As built, Warsaw-St Petersburg had no borders en route, and Berlin-St Petersburg only one, entering what is now Lithuania from East Prussia (with a gauge change).
Vienna-Trieste was another route originally without borders, and under a single railway management (the Südbahn).
If Vienna-Istanbul had been completed to the original 1860s plan, there would only have been one border, across the Una river at Dobrlijn (now the unused Croatia/Bosnia border between Zagreb and Banja Luka).
Zittau's history is fascinating, having been at different times part of Bohemia, Saxony, Poland and Hungary.
Zittau - Wikipedia
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We will face the same sort of situation if Wales becomes independent, not so much with Scotland as no lines there cross the border multiple times.
Ireland had a similar situation with the Great Northern lines at partition, but today there is only the one cross-border line, between Dundalk and Newry.
GN, later CIE/NIR, used to run trains from Dublin to Bundoran on the west coast until 1957, with a "corridor" loop through Enniskillen in Northern Ireland.