# virgin — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 10 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover virgin. Page: Feed: --- ## [(untitled)](https://gruene.social/@jon/117123994067151870) _2026-08-19 · Jon Worth_ Neighbours playing music Dogs barking Souped up cars farting Mopeds phuttting The calm of the countryside 😡 ## [(untitled)](https://gruene.social/@jon/117123212742558782) _2026-08-19 · Jon Worth_ Because I am sick of the tired old tropes from loads of people that I am going to get stuck in Germany during # LongestTrainEU I have written about it Why Germany DOES NOT worry me! https:// crossborderrail.eu/longestjour ney/#germany ## [(untitled)](https://gruene.social/@jon/117122115495835644) _2026-08-19 · Jon Worth_ I have contacted all the railways along the # LongestTrainEU to ask how/if they would like to communicate all this So far VR 🇫🇮 - trying to identify right person Norrtåg 🇸🇪 - come visit us at our office! 😎 SJ 🇸🇪 - no reply Öresundståg 🇸🇪🇩🇰 - what can we do? Let's talk! DSB 🇩🇰 - just tell us what you do DB 🇩🇪 - no reply (but am sure I will get one) SWEG 🇩🇪 - no reply SNCF 🇫🇷 -… ## [The Glory of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Heaven - Part I](https://saintalphonsus.substack.com/p/the-glory-of-the-blessed-virgin-mary-11c) _2026-08-19 · Saint-Alphonsus Liguori · St Alphonsus Liguori's Substack_ Wednesday Twelfth Week After Pentecost - Morning Meditation [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/211834262/12e1d0386749032e67178a663b9dd738.mp3) ## [(untitled)](https://gruene.social/@jon/117116372616834747) _2026-08-18 · Jon Worth_ The complete interview I did with Green Signals about all the Channel Tunnel news is now online: https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=6znQl6GI\_ts This was recorded before this week's news about paths for Virgin Trains, a solid step forward for them that should surprise no one # CrossChannelRail ## [The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Into Heaven - Part VIII](https://saintalphonsus.substack.com/p/the-assumption-of-the-blessed-virgin-98c) _2026-08-18 · Saint-Alphonsus Liguori · St Alphonsus Liguori's Substack_ Tuesday Twelfth Week After Pentecost - Morning Meditation [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/211695974/2c6f3192b4f86a773e525168912b1a09.mp3) ## [(untitled)](https://gruene.social/@jon/117116231835216028) _2026-08-18 · Jon Worth_ These stories that rebuilding Freiburg 🇩🇪 - Breisach 🇩🇪 - Volgelsheim 🇫🇷 - Colmar 🇫🇷 # CrossBorderRail is somehow cancelled are... sort of wrong Yes, BaWü is stopping its planning. But France has never really been in on the project from the off, and getting it included in the EU TEN-T comprehensive network did not happen either https://www. vrso.de/de/presse/pressemittei… ## [Unwind: Spa Day at the W Hotel Dallas](https://girlsonthego.substack.com/p/unwind-spa-day-at-the-w-hotel-dallas) _2026-08-18 · Girls on the Go · Girls on the Go_ It's time to decompress after a beautiful summer ## [(untitled)](https://gruene.social/@jon/117111599921261458) _2026-08-17 · Jon Worth_ P.P.S. Since I wrote this thread The Guardian has re-titled its piece It WAS "Virgin Trains gets go ahead to run services to Europe in new blow to Eurostar monopoly" It now IS "Virgin Trains a step closer to running services to Europe in blow to Eurostar" ## [(untitled)](https://gruene.social/@jon/117111134569238430) _2026-08-17 · Jon Worth_ P.S. If you're going "yeah but it's Virgin, waaa waaa", really, give it a rest. Look at the shit show of the West Coast Main Line after Virgin were replaced by Avanti (and Avanti is 30% Trenitalia, one of the other Eurostar rivals, so maybe whine about Trenitalia too? If only you knew?) And - above all - Eurostar needs a great big kick, as the company is complacent. Question is just who can do it ## [Ask the crowd: AI or not (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/XxnHAkYyMjUc) _2026-08-17 · **Sponsored**_ Get a transparent verdict from verified humans via web, RSS, or API. ## [(untitled)](https://gruene.social/@jon/117110996645439849) _2026-08-17 · Jon Worth_ I researched all of this in depth last year - a LOT more background in my report: https:// crosschannelrail.eu/crosschann elrail/crosschannelrail-report/ But the crux: the MOST IMPORTANT from here is who can get trains ordered, approved and ready to run through the Channel Tunnel! P.S. Gemini not mentioned here as they're less far along 8/8 ## [(untitled)](https://gruene.social/@jon/117110989719357321) _2026-08-17 · Jon Worth_ Redevelopment of Paris Gare du Nord is also planned, and is due to be completed by 2029 - so before either Virgin or Trenitalia can run https://www. leparisien.fr/paris-75/nouveau -hall-eurostar-vegetalisation-circulation-apaisee-a-paris-la-gare-du-nord-du-futur-attendue-en-2029-17-12-2025-55XASMU3LJEALHEY52ZCQ2IWSI.php 7/8 ## [(untitled)](https://gruene.social/@jon/117110988874407241) _2026-08-17 · Jon Worth_ Meanwhile London St Pancras Highspeed (formerly HS1 Ltd) is proceeding with the re-engineering of the check in area at St Pancras: https://www. newcivilengineer.com/latest/in terview-hs1-ltd-on-taking-a-phased-approach-to-enlarging-st-pancras-international-capacity-06-02-2025/ So there will be capacity for at least 1 more train per hour there, at peak, and 2 more trains per hour off peak 6/8 ## [(untitled)](https://gruene.social/@jon/117110988335814383) _2026-08-17 · Jon Worth_ For details of what Trenitalia ordered, see: https:// railway-news.com/fs-group-orde rs-19-high-speed-trains-for-paris-london-channel-tunnel-service/ So Virgin is a bit ahead of Trenitalia with paths (which, given there is plenty of capacity on the infra, is quite easy) and Trenitalia is ahead of Virgin regarding the trains 5/8 ## [(untitled)](https://gruene.social/@jon/117110987852388933) _2026-08-17 · Jon Worth_ Trenitalia, another rival, has ✅ Maintenance capacity in 🇫🇷 (Maisons Alfortville) ✅ Order placed for Hitachi trains It doesn't have ❌ Track access for St Pancras & HS1 🇬🇧 ❌ Track access in Channel Tunnel (easy) ❌ Track access in 🇫🇷🇧🇪 (quite easy) ❌ Stabling or maintenance in 🇬🇧🇧🇪 (medium) 4/8 ## [(untitled)](https://gruene.social/@jon/117110987276466440) _2026-08-17 · Jon Worth_ Virgin Trains now has ✅ Maintenance capacity in 🇬🇧 (Temple Mills) ✅ Track access for St Pancras & HS1 🇬🇧 It doesn't have ❌ Track access in Channel Tunnel (easy) ❌ Track access in 🇫🇷🇧🇪 (quite easy) ❌ Stabling or maintenance in 🇫🇷🇧🇪 (medium) ❌ Order placed for Alstom trains (hard, costly, slow) 3/8 ## [(untitled)](https://gruene.social/@jon/117110986529612860) _2026-08-17 · Jon Worth_ Also ultimately the framing of this is off. Eurostar, even now, is not using as much capacity as it did in 2019 This is not Virgin somehow pinching track capacity from Eurostar - it is using \*spare\* capacity on the infra 2/8 ## [(untitled)](https://gruene.social/@jon/117110985592274636) _2026-08-17 · Jon Worth_ Ah here we go again "Virgin Trains gets go ahead to run services to Europe in new blow to Eurostar monopoly" says The Guardian https://www. theguardian.com/business/2026/ aug/17/virgin-trains-services-to-europe-eurostar This is an IMPORTANT AND EXPECTED STEP but BY NO MEANS SUFFICIENT to allow Virgin to start services! Quick # CrossChannelRail 🧵 1/8 ## [The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Into Heaven - Part VII](https://saintalphonsus.substack.com/p/the-assumption-of-the-blessed-virgin-018) _2026-08-17 · Saint-Alphonsus Liguori · St Alphonsus Liguori's Substack_ Listen now | Monday Twelfth Week After Pentecost - Morning Meditation [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/211542320/8c44f3689f677d95ab61fcfdf6e4833f.mp3) ## [(untitled)](https://gruene.social/@jon/117110489171216093) _2026-08-17 · Jon Worth_ As rivals to Eurostar are in the news again today (this time: Virgin), I researched all of this \*in a lot of depth\* last year The report is here: https:// crosschannelrail.eu/crosschann elrail/crosschannelrail-report/ In short: YES there is capacity for what Virgin wants to do, they are serious with their plans # CrossChannelRail ## [Save with community-voted codes (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/urFYTAv8msbx) _2026-08-17 · **Sponsored**_ Search thousands of community-verified coupon codes — 100% free, no account needed. ## [(untitled)](https://gruene.social/@jon/117105877187484103) _2026-08-16 · Jon Worth_ A few updates to the # LongestTrainEU page today https:// crossborderrail.eu/longestjour ney/ - now with the complete new timetable, and answering some of the most common "but did you think about that?" sort of questions And mostly yes, I did think this through 😀 # CrossBorderRail ## [The Holy Death of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Part VI](https://saintalphonsus.substack.com/p/the-holy-death-of-the-blessed-virgin) _2026-08-16 · Saint-Alphonsus Liguori · St Alphonsus Liguori's Substack_ Listen now | Sunday Twelfth Week After Pentecost [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/211409195/125cf5f3e02cb0d42a94375d63a8976a.mp3) ## [Meet & Greet on 8/22 to Celebrate 1000 Friends on Facebook!](https://girlsonthego.substack.com/p/meet-and-greet-on-822-to-celebrate) _2026-08-15 · Girls on the Go · Girls on the Go_ Join us at the AT&T Discovery District for Games and Get-to-Know-Yous ## [(untitled)](https://gruene.social/@jon/117100762872393139) _2026-08-15 · Jon Worth_ 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 ## [(untitled)](https://gruene.social/@jon/117100756537783179) _2026-08-15 · Jon Worth_ 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 ## [(untitled)](https://gruene.social/@jon/117100471675969526) _2026-08-15 · Jon Worth_ # 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 ## [The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Into Heaven](https://saintalphonsus.substack.com/p/the-assumption-of-the-blessed-virgin-1b1) _2026-08-15 · Saint-Alphonsus Liguori · St Alphonsus Liguori's Substack_ Saturday Eleventh Week After Pentecost - Morning Meditation [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/211298217/43abeb8de8e32bebe9965557bf89407f.mp3) ## [(untitled)](https://gruene.social/@jon/117099085923996038) _2026-08-15 · Jon Worth_ 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 ## [(untitled)](https://gruene.social/@jon/117094119766424163) _2026-08-14 · Jon Worth_ 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 ## [(untitled)](https://gruene.social/@jon/117093796575356807) _2026-08-14 · Jon Worth_ 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 ## [Privacy-first AI-native browser (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/zkbXzhL0ACfE) _2026-08-14 · **Sponsored**_ No telemetry or ads — built on Ungoogled Chromium with a built-in AI sidebar and CLI. ## [(untitled)](https://gruene.social/@jon/117093794384585749) _2026-08-14 · Jon Worth_ 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 ## [(untitled)](https://gruene.social/@jon/117093791773651747) _2026-08-14 · Jon Worth_ 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 ## [(untitled)](https://gruene.social/@jon/117093788914375389) _2026-08-14 · Jon Worth_ 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/ ## [Windstorms, Birchbark and Cottonwood, and a Carol for the Dormition and Assumption of Mary](https://danielmitsui.substack.com/p/windstorms-birchbark-and-cottonwood) _2026-08-14 · Daniel Mitsui · Daniel Mitsui, Artist_ A detail of the Assumption of Mary, from this drawing of the Glorious Mysteries of the Rosary. ## [The Amiable Heart of Jesus](https://saintalphonsus.substack.com/p/the-amiable-heart-of-jesus-bdf) _2026-08-14 · Saint-Alphonsus Liguori · St Alphonsus Liguori's Substack_ Listen now | Friday Eleventh Week After Pentecost - Morning Meditation [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/211166411/b5f7abb3d28ba63e268a212e7d282ae5.mp3) ## [(untitled)](https://gruene.social/@jon/117092756695132688) _2026-08-14 · Jon Worth_ 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 ## [(untitled)](https://gruene.social/@jon/117089333513905892) _2026-08-13 · Jon Worth_ 🤯 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 ## [(untitled)](https://gruene.social/@jon/117089330995822090) _2026-08-13 · Jon Worth_ 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 ## [(untitled)](https://gruene.social/@jon/117089316589453918) _2026-08-13 · Jon Worth_ 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://… ## [(untitled)](https://gruene.social/@jon/117089228480953925) _2026-08-13 · Jon Worth_ 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… ## [(untitled)](https://gruene.social/@jon/117088238527420520) _2026-08-13 · Jon Worth_ 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... 😬 ## [The Passing of the Blessed Virgin Out of This World - Part V](https://saintalphonsus.substack.com/p/the-passing-of-the-blessed-virgin-7c2) _2026-08-13 · Saint-Alphonsus Liguori · St Alphonsus Liguori's Substack_ Listen now | Thursday Eleventh Week After Pentecost - Morning Meditation [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/211023651/1b29ca227cb39c83dfef09b8f053ee17.mp3) ## [The Passing of the Blessed Virgin Out of This World - Part IV](https://saintalphonsus.substack.com/p/the-passing-of-the-blessed-virgin-2f0) _2026-08-12 · Saint-Alphonsus Liguori · St Alphonsus Liguori's Substack_ Listen now | Wednesday Eleventh Week After Pentecost - Morning Meditation [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/210948324/4f7a8eed85e3a765c23bcc5931204943.mp3) ## [The Passing of the Blessed Virgin Out of This World - Part III](https://saintalphonsus.substack.com/p/the-passing-of-the-blessed-virgin-e24) _2026-08-11 · Saint-Alphonsus Liguori · St Alphonsus Liguori's Substack_ Listen now | Tuesday Eleventh Week After Pentecost - Morning Meditation [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/210734856/7106b8bbdac3087f8508b2da4321f790.mp3) ## [(untitled)](https://gruene.social/@jon/117076386699132883) _2026-08-11 · Jon Worth_ Why is the first Perpignan - Paris of the day at 7am? That's TOO LATE. FFS. Early trains are useful, damn it. # LongestTrainEU # CrossBorderRail ## [(untitled)](https://gruene.social/@jon/117076366099860756) _2026-08-11 · Jon Worth_ (Note all of this not for me, but for someone who might come along to film # LongestTrainEU ) # CrossBorderRail ## [(untitled)](https://gruene.social/@jon/117076360471807329) _2026-08-11 · Jon Worth_ 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… ## [(untitled)](https://gruene.social/@jon/117076346918910448) _2026-08-11 · Jon Worth_ 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 ## [(untitled)](https://gruene.social/@jon/117076331005934067) _2026-08-11 · Jon Worth_ 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 ## [Zonsverduistering 12 augustus en ander bijzonder eclipsnieuws](https://omny.fm/shows/space-cowboys/zonsverduistering-12-augustus-en-ander-bijzonder-eclipsnieuws) _2026-08-10 · Space Cowboys | BNR_ Drie Space Cowboys die zelf naar de zonsverduistering gaan kijken, vertellen elkaar waarom, waar en hoe ze dit gaan zien. Daarnaast diverse wetenswaardigheden. bijvoorbeeld hoe een zonsverduistering in 1919 de relativiteitstheorie van EInstein bewees, hoe in 1973 de Concorde een zonsverduistering vijf kwartier wist te rekken en hoe ook Venus en Mercurius de zon een beetje kunnen verduisteren. Dat… [Listen](https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/8257a063-6be9-42fa-b892-acd4013b1255/1627ff64-d61d-40e0-8016-ade2009f4a0e/68e052b1-9efd-4391-b244-b48f010b187c/audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=16eee865-2a46-46b3-94c1-ade2009f7d4a)