European, originally a Brit, became German, moved to France. Runs #CrossBorderRail project, writes a weekly newsletter about railways. Green, lives happily without a car.
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Last Notes npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth 🎉 npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth Sat in the train to Paris and the commuters get on in Sens npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth In the end at least there’s this: the European Commission’s #PassengerPackage as drafted is not a step backwards, and it might put a few things right. It won’t make anything worse in its current form. npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth @nprofile…45c5 It is not *only* a verification app, I think? 🤔 There is a social feed on top? npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth A political friend of mine asked me for my assessment of W Social - https://wsocial.news npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth And Happy Europe Day everyone! 🎉 npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth @nprofile…8j2k @nprofile…zywc it’s the manufacturer. Talgo doesn’t build good or reliable trains just now. npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth What? npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth Meanwhile on LinkedIn 😆 #CrossBorderRail npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth @nprofile…tvpj Mine was the first non-Webinar meeting! 😀 npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth I think this wasn’t the #CrossBorderRail 😀 npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth #CrossBorderRail 2026 Spring Tour Train 106 of 125 npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth Interrail is a bit odd these days. In neither Trenitalia Frecciarossa or IC, nor regional trains of Trenord or Trenitalia TPER has anyone wanted to scan the Interrail QR. Do their devices not scan it? npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth However these data problems here are incomprehensible npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth According to @nprofile…lt09 it looks like Régiolis is actually running France - Germany today, as planned https://zug.network/@hopla/116514407465211628 npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth Also some panel in the interior of this ex-FYRA ETR700 is vibrating and rattling. Makes for a rather loud journey. npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth San Marino is at the top of a mountain. There’s nowhere to go beyond it. So a future line need not be more than Rimini - San Marino npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth Here’s one of the border crossings. The drone is in Italy. The border is circled. The arrow through the outlet malls is where it used to run in San Marino. #CrossBorderRail npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth The central issue: urbanisation has changed a LOT here since 1945. what was farm land is now suburban sprawl. Rebuilding a #CrossBorderRail line through that is going to be hard! npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth You can find remains of the #CrossBorderRail line at various points on the way down. npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth Given their slogan is Libertas, where does that leave Liberland that I also passed on #CrossBorderRail 🤔 npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth Although given that all these tourists drive up here (some in buses, most in cars) I suppose there’s a need. But hell knows how you’d reactivate this. npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth The railway here is absurd npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth Also this modern road through here is an abomination. They’ve basically ploughed a highway through villages. npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth Damn. I crossed the border and didn’t realise! npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth Hmmm. Here the line used to run through what is now a sort of business park npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth Why is it so hard to engineer buses with decent suspension? And buses where the panels inside don’t rattle? npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth @nprofile…03me It's an amazing and scary place, the whole neighbourhood (but it was nice cycle ride along the Tiber cycle way to get there!) npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth @nprofile…xl7w Yes. The form of the arches is impeccable npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth @nprofile…zyfa there aren’t. There used to be a museum train. npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth The two ends of the pope railway 🙂 npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth So ultimately this leaves us with two interpretations for “TGV-M is too big for Italian lines” npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth The answer here, somewhere, is roughly this: any GB gauge train can run on a track rated GB npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth So there we have it npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth The Rock is… GB gauge npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth This is Politico‘s take, so be careful, but this from the CDU is such complete rubbish npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth Also there are lots of things you can do with a former railway. Park cars on it. Vans on it. Make a footpath along it. Hang your washing along it... npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth Between Laprakë (where a railway station is being built) and the centre of Tirana, the alignment of the old railway crosses a highway npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth Cows grazing in front of half completed tower blocks npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth Into Albania 🇦🇱 npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth Bar by 8am. I decided to come to the seaside. #CrossBorderRail npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth I don’t quite know my plan tomorrow. If I’m awake anyway I’ll get off in Podgorica. If not I’ll stay on to Bar. I just need to be in Podgorica mid afternoon for the bus to Tirana. #CrossBorderRail npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth @nprofile…mqnt likely to start in December I was told this week. And Beograd - Bar is weird and amazing. Do it when you can! npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth Here we go. Train 433 Lovcen to Montenegro #CrossBorderRail npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth @nprofile…n0gr Nurmes - on weekends - has a different route, making it shorter than Savonlinna. npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth The problem with this one though is how much it can change. npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth Note: this assumes no walking between separate stations (so no Hendaye) npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth Sooooo... npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth @nprofile…n0gr 6681.7 route-km. Wdyt? npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth @nprofile…n0gr I am trying with a map 😀 npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth @nprofile…577a @nprofile…d3df @nprofile…5cze Haaaa, I hadn't really thought of it! 😀 npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth @nprofile…tz0t Oh, run by VR? Do you know when the first one will run? (if it is a heritage train, it is out, but if it is a regular train I can include it!) npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth @nprofile…5cze There is still one train a day that takes the route it seems, for now at least! npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth This - I think! - is all the route sections you need, to calculate the most route-km way, but with passenger trains, to do this npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth @nprofile…9lg4 What's the shortest route-km on passenger trains, however fast or slow, from Kotka to Tornio? npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth So I *think* the longest rail route in the EU, without any extra via points added, is Hanko 🇫🇮 - Pocinho 🇵🇹 and it has route km of AT LEAST 6433.2km, but this is an underestimation for the moment - more work is needed to determine the precise route-km for it npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth So we know the start and end points npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth The furthest from Tornio, I think, is Hanko in south west Finland npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth As @nprofile…atgf and others have pointed out, it is obvious that Helsinki - Tornio - Lagos is more route-km than Kemijärvi - Tornio - Lagos npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth @nprofile…mtyv Ha. Not directly. But given I was looking for fast routes, none of those go through Luxembourg! npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth Meanwhile on LinkedIn 😀 npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth @nprofile…uq6q it doesn’t. Try timetabling that! You end up with fewer route km but a longer trip time. npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth Also I have now explained why - even if, say, Helsinki - Lagos had more route-km than Kemijärvi - Lagos, I am not able to calculate it, and hence will stick to geodesic https://jonworth.eu/the-longest-train-journey-in-the-eu/#update-25-april-1630-but-helsinki-to-lagos-would-have-more-route-km npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth @nprofile…4pdc All included. €200-€300 for the pass, and about €100 for reservations. npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth Take this for example. The shortest Stockholm - Norrköping is via Nyköping npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth @nprofile…u8st the post literally has a cost in it! 😀 npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth @nprofile…d3df DB Navigator does though. But they do have separate UIC codes, and it is a short walk, but Cercanias does not have bag scanners, the high speed does. npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth @nprofile…jg96 Some Youtuber I would wager. npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth 🆕 EU Longest Train Journey 🆕 npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth @nprofile…5cze @nprofile…d3df ultimately though: while we might find reasons why this doesn’t work, it’s still a very poor outcome - that local trains should connect with the night trains in northern Sweden ought to be obvious! npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth OK, I have seen some silly timetables in my time, but this tops the lot npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth @nprofile…ewgz No, because the old main station was demolished. You need a new building. So OK, roughly where it used to be (perhaps to the west of the boulevard?) would work. But you can't use the old station as it no longer exists. npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth Albania question npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth @nprofile…t9m8 @nprofile…4j24 And I suppose there is just this thing nagging at me that Peterson makes a big thing about something ultimately so small. Sure, dealing with SNCF is obviously a pain, but there's no proper vision or common plan for Germany-France rail at all. There are a few tiny changes, but there is *so much* more you could do - if all the decisions were lined up the right way! npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth @nprofile…t9m8 Thanks for the trainsplaining. There is also the issue of some ETCS changes on the ICE 407 series that might restrict the availability of that type. npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth This is the type of thing that makes you realise how glacially slowly railways move npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth #CrossBorderRail 2026 Spring Tour Bike 19 of 25 npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth P 2511 npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth Also given Dugo Selo - Novska is on flat terrain, and the line almost entirely straight, that we're doing just 60km/h is painful. npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth @nprofile…rz9y Transit straight through, no stops. So no! npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth I am travelling with @nprofile…azdw today as far as Slavonski Brod, and we were wondering why the Dugo Selo - Novska section is so damned slow. npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth So I didn't have a proper #CrossBorderRail thread on Tuesday. Here is the data! npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth B 741 npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth #CrossBorderRail 2026 Spring Tour Train 87 of 117 npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth Here's today's #CrossBorderRail intro video https://peertube.netzbegruenung.de/w/wxwoSnN6nr5iXJrhv3kiEu npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth Welcome to today's thread - #CrossBorderRail 2026 Tour Day 23 - 23 Apr - Zagreb - Slavonski Brod - Brod - Tovarnik - Šid – Beograd npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth I’ve written a reaction to T&E‘s report on ticketing problems for iPaper https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/travel/no-fly-european-holidays-easy-book-why-not-4370168 npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth I am passing Freiburg (Breisgau) for the second time in less than a week npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth @nprofile…nlqt well there is a Regulation coming out next month! Maybe you ought to ask The Guardian why they didn’t consider explaining that? npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth @nprofile…n0gr I think it’s because he’s so in this world that no one talks back to him as he’s the boss he was unaware how bad his words were. npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth After teaching at the College of Europe for more than a decade, my course was summarily cancelled by email, ending my work there, and without a word of thanks npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth I tried the ticket office for Eurostar first. But there were 3 desks open and a crazy queue. That would not have worked. #CrossBorderRail npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth Also I increased the chances of this working by knowing what type of Eurostar - Thalys runs the Köln service, and waiting right beside it before the platform was announced. That meant I was the first to see the train manager. That ought not be necessary! #CrossBorderRail npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth The train manager was friendly. So I’m on my #CrossBorderRail to Liège. In the bar for now… npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth Finally close to Paris. npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth And it is at moments like this that you realise that npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth Meanwhile I am sort of moving past Sens, adding extra delay npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth @nprofile…h8e3 Now just left Sens. Eurostar to BXL, IC to Liege, then Drielanden to Maastricht. npub14v4yh4nkp3g4arfkdnyd5t5e6xn3zt5jsn8t8kt9sez35s3vat8scn8jgt Jon Worth I do have a valid Interrail (10 days in 2 months pass) that I could theoretically use, but actually HOW am I supposed to get around all these hurdles?
