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  Just had to deal with a bunch of wind turbine conspiracy theories at #StateOfEU, this polite political event I’m at in Brussels. Damn we‘re fucked. Fucked. Our notional political elite is believing in utter complete garbage.

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  Damn. I miscalculated this! Got to #ConnectingEuropeDays 15 mins ahead of the sessions and the queue is massive

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  Damn I am tired of people laughing about Deutsche Bahn. Travel in many other places in Europe and you will discover Germany is trying to do many things right with its railways. A quick blog post / rant from me: https://jonworth.eu/your-deutsche-bahn-joke-is-no-longer-fu/ #CrossBorderRail

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  Welcome to today's thread - #CrossBorderRail to/from #LongestTrainEU Day 17 - 28 Sep - Kędzierzyn-Koźle - Leipzig - Frankfurt – Bruxelles New borders: None Borders already crossed: Horka Gbf 🇩🇪 - Wegliniec 🇵🇱 Aachen 🇩🇪 - Welkenraedt 🇧🇪 Today's routes on the routes map: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-autumn-2026-inc-longest-train-jour_1443266#8/49.882371/6.766070

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  I left Košice 30 mins earlier than planned this morning, conscious something was wrong Žilina - Čadca, and not wanting to trust a tight connection I made the right call I think 😀

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  Always nice to be wrong language tag or ALT text shamed here on the Fediverse. Look, I’m on a bike tour. Half the time I don’t know what language I’m even using. I’ll do what I can, from a mobile in a field in Slovakia. I’m aware this is important. But please also be aware I’m human.

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  FINALLY we have the right version of the Kemijärvi 🇫🇮 - Lagos 🇵🇹 #LongestTrainEU film up on Youtube! 😀 Watch me battle my way past cancellations, delays, and get a bit of good luck at Badajoz 🇪🇸 And the record is set: 125 hours, 31 minutes Who wants to have a go at doing it faster? 🤔 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAJdg0E9ha8

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  The Balkans is better than this, damn it

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  No #CrossBorderRail today, but I do need to get to tomorrow’s border (and do some work and calls) To start this IC will take me to Entroncamento

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  No rest here. Off goes Rick to Faro, and I’m changing in Tunes and trying to get to Pocinho today. The 24h delay to #LongestTrainEU makes my #CrossBorderRail the next few days quite complicated!

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  We have a soundtrack for Haparanda too 🙂 #LongestTrainEU The Animals - We Gotta Get Out Of This Place https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJVpihgwE18

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  So this is the likely new timetable I think I hope! Red ones I did not reserve yet

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  So that was Day 1 #LongestTrainEU #CrossBorderRail Here's today's summary video from Kemi https://peertube.netzbegruenung.de/w/62Qy6xoKZXMUecPKx31a6s

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  Welcome to the #LongestTrainEU #CrossBorderRail record breaking thread! This train journey starts in Kemijärvi 🇫🇮 and ends in Lagos 🇵🇹 18 trains, 100 hours 9 minutes, 4008km as the crow flies, 6281 route-km The background to this project is here: https://longestjourney.crossborderrail.eu/ And the live tracking throughout is here: https://longestjourneylive.crossborderrail.eu/

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  The press release announcing the start of #LongestTrainEU is out! https://jonworth.eu/press-release-record-breaking-longest-train-journey-in-the-eu-to-begin-in-kemijarvi/ It gives all the key stats and background, and the trip starts TODAY at 19:00 EEST in Kemijärvi 🇫🇮

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  Super animation of trains in 🇫🇷🇩🇪🇳🇱🇧🇪🇱🇺🇨🇭 https://chillchamp1.github.io/github.io/#eu A city like Marseille (France's second or third largest, depending how you define it) has so few trains you can barely see where it is

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  FFS Spain is such a pile of abject shit when it comes to rail timetables Sure, the trains are fast *if and when they go*, but nothing connects properly #LongestTrainEU #CrossBorderRail

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  Way to go DSB 🤣 On your *national* website you have Hamburg ZOB listed, and that's the Zentralomnibusbahnhof (bus station) (pic 1, 2) To get a train to Hamburg Hbf, the main station, you need to use the DSB International website (pic 3) https://www.dsb.dk/en/international/ But to Flensburg - which is in Germany - *is* on the national site. Totally makes sense (pic 4) #LongestTrainEU #CrossBorderRail

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  Umeå C - København H, using the Umeå - Stockholm night train *obviously* should route you Umeå - Stockholm - Lund - København DB ✅ Railfinder @railfinder.eu ✅ SJ 🤯 Let's make you change in Gävle, Linköping and Malmö instead, with a much longer trip time #LongestTrainEU #CrossBorderRail

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  Right then! Record attempt: Longest train journey in the EU is live! https://crossborderrail.eu/longestjourney/ #CrossBorderRail #LongestTrainEU

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  Landsberg (Warthe) Hbf Hard to photograph as the train suddenly got busy

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  Thorn Schlüssel

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  Today‘s #CrossBorderRail Preußische Ostbahn to Berlin Via Torún, Bydgoszcz, Piła, Krzyż, Kostrzyn And with time to go see the old HQ in Bydgoszcz

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  So as my holiday train trip nears its end (Olzstyn - Berlin tomorrow), so my thoughts turn to #CrossBorderRail in the coming months 🙂 This all starts on 9th August at Lindow (Mark), north of Berlin, where 40 photos from my projects are going to be shown in the garden of the station: https://www.plattform-paradies.de/grenzueberschreitende-bahnstrecken-europas/ COME ALONG if you live near Berlin! It's free! And at 16:00 I explain everything...

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  I’ve got through the gap

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  GoVolta isn’t going to run high speed trains Amsterdam - Paris in 2028 (I’m on holiday. I’ll analyse this more once I’m back at my desk)

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  Now I’m into Estonia and across the #kvass frontier, let’s test some Fresh kvass is hard to get in Tallinn (the only place Trip Advisor claimed had any, didn’t) Background about Kvass here: https://www.alecoq.ee/en/the-story-of-kvass/

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  Niche German political humour https://istschniedernochimamt.com

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  Carnoules, today 🤯 Track deformation due to heat (and I presume also poor maintenance?) could have derailed a TGV I’m on holiday, but I’ve got enough stories for two newsletters…

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  Information at Oslo S for international trains 🙄 The train to Stockholm is operated by SJ 🇸🇪 So the live data doesn’t work correctly in 🇳🇴 Everyone is waiting at Platform 14, and the train arrives at Platform 6. I ask the SJ staffer on Platform 14 who brusquely tells me there’s no problem And yeah, I’m right and the SJ dude is wrong, and stressed passengers sprint across