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And last but not least there are going to be 50 # LongestTrainEU postcards printed - to give to train staff along the route, telling them they were part of the record bid! # CrossBorderRail
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And the # LongestTrainEU plaques are ordered Someone at Kemijärvi and Lagos will each get one of these They're ordered from a firm called Laserliebe - Laser Love But no I am not engraving plaques for a loved one 😀 # CrossBorderRail
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# LongestTrainEU merchandise is ready! 🎉 T-shirts & more with the new logo here: https:// crossborderrail.myspreadshop.d e/ And there is also an updated version of the classic # CrossBorderRail logo as well Each purchase makes a very small financial contribution to my work, and next 2 days there's 25% off
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Here's the proposed timetable for when the Hungarian section of Budapest - Beograd finally opens, possibly this autumn: https:// menetrend.kti.hu/wp-content/up loads/2026/08/2.-150-menetrend-tervezet-2.pdf 8x a day Budapest - Beograd, trains wait 30 mins for border controls at Kelebia Let's see when exactly it will open though! # CrossBorderRail
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Right! We have a NEW TIMETABLE for # LongestTrainEU https:// crossborderrail.eu/longestjour ney/ Norrtåg has fixed the connections in Boden, so I am not stranded there 👍 Theoretically in the future such changes are to be published 5 months and not 3 weeks ahead 🤷♂️ This means I will have time for small events in Stockholm and København - details tbc
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Streisand effect this week: DB stung by Dunja Hayali ZDF documentary Photo of the week: Old Preußische Ostbahn HQ in Bydgoszcz Elsewhere this week: Caledonian Sleeper on Green Signals Calendar: Connecting Europe Days, 28 September to 1 October 2026
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Odd week: An Alstom EMU for DSB finds its way to Romania Bad week: Moldova - Romania night train conforms to the Eurovision stereotype Very bad week: RheinRuhrBahn air conditioning cannot cope at temps above 26°C Gadgetbahn of the week: A battery tram is not going to work as a train in Moldova
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In this edition Analysis: The # CrossBorderRail method Bullshit Meter: Arriva NL to run international high speed trains Good week: Leo Express manages to run to Przemyśl Also a good week: Italy and Austria able to do what France and Germany cannot - getting Alstom EMUs to work cross border
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Phew 🥵 Trying to get the first post-summer newsletter out was tough Hard to get back into it But it turned into quite a bumper edition in the end 👇 https:// jonworth.eu/the-crossborderrai l-method-and-a-post-summer-break-round-up/
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YES! It's FIXED 🎉 Norrtåg now allows a 3 minute change in Boden, meaning I should avoid being stranded there for 5 hours on my # LongestTrainEU trip
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🤯 And they have hauled some Talgo locomotives for DB there to Romania as well! https:// clubferoviar.ro/wp-content/upl oads/2025/06/teste-pesa-faurei-2.jpg https:// clubferoviar.ro/wp-content/upl oads/2025/06/teste-pesa-faurei-1.jpg
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More pics, guessing URLs https:// clubferoviar.ro/wp-content/upl oads/2025/06/teste-pesa-faurei-7.jpg https:// clubferoviar.ro/wp-content/upl oads/2025/06/teste-pesa-faurei-10.jpg https:// clubferoviar.ro/wp-content/upl oads/2025/06/teste-pesa-faurei-3.jpg FAO @ sorenhave @ jacobchristensen
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So this is probably the oddest place a Danish train has ended up since AnsaldoBreda sent a IC4 to Ghaddafi in Libya... But here is a new Alstom IC5 EMU for DSB, built in Salzgitter 🇩🇪 I think, in Făurei 🇷🇴 (where there is a test track) Story, it's the red train: https:// clubferoviar.ro/mainile-drepte -ale-directorilor-afer-si-asfr-primesc-drept-de-control/ Image: https://…
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I'm a bit late to this, but I have now finally watched the ZDF film about German railways with Dunja Hayali https://www. zdf.de/play/reportagen/am-puls -100/am-puls-mit-dunja-hayali-deutsche-bahn-verspaetung-100 DB is furious about it - press reaction here, scroll down https://www. deutschebahn.com/de/presse/New sblog-12829716 But it's actually not too bad, as I see it It fairly attributes blame…
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Press accreditation submitted to get into # Innotrans in Berlin this autumn The headache is I am not a normal journalist (I have no press card) and I am not how they see an influencer (I am not posting bullshit for clicks on Insta) - I fall somewhere in between Fingers crossed they approve it... 😬
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Why is the first Perpignan - Paris of the day at 7am? That's TOO LATE. FFS. Early trains are useful, damn it. # LongestTrainEU # CrossBorderRail
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(Note all of this not for me, but for someone who might come along to film # LongestTrainEU ) # CrossBorderRail
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You can get from Berlin to Helsinki reliably by train and ferry in 2 days and 1 night (Berlin - Warszawa - Vilnius, night there, Vilnius - Tallinn - Helsinki) But you cannot sensibly get from Lagos to Berlin in the same time, despite, oh, about 2000km of high speed infra to use You *might* just do it with buses Lagos - Sevilla, and Barcelona - Perpignan, and the rest with trains, and a night in…
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AAAGGGHHAHHAGAGHAHAGAHHAGHAH Look how many EFFING BUSES there are between Barcelona and Perpignan WHERE THERE IS A HIGH SPEED EFFING TRAIN LINE WITH 4 TRAINS A DAY EACH WAY ON THE BORDER SECTION # LongestTrainEU # CrossBorderRail
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This is why Spain and France (and especially the border between them) make me so hopping mad. How you can spend billions and billions on new infra, and STILL not get to your destination when your trip is something a fraction more complex than Sevilla - Barcelona or Lyon - Lille I can forgive Romania being crap I cannot forgive France or Spain being crap # LongestTrainEU # CrossBorderRail