🆕 EU Longest Train Journey 🆕

[jon@gruene.social]

@stgm Norway is not in the EU

And kindly, if you read the blog entry, Riksgränsen - the last Swedish station on the line to Narvik - is explained

[tonanio@mastodon.social]

@jon If there's Internet and food, I'm in

[malte@radikal.social]

@jon Is Deutsche Bahn pr German railways significantly worse than the rest of Europe?

[jon@gruene.social]

@h0m54r Yes, I see your point. That might somewhere in southern Finland or, I suppose, somewhere in Bulgaria maybe? But I agree it'd be hellish to calculate!

[redjives@todon.eu]

@jon @stefanlindbohm I have made that exact transfer with packed bicycles. Although it leaves from a Cercanias platform ALVIAs are treated as high speed when it comes to rules like bicycles. (Not important in the grand scheme but annoying to me.)

[jon@gruene.social]

@stefanlindbohm It does some manual overrides on its OWN data too (see the mess of connection times in Mannheim for example!)

[jon@gruene.social]

@malte Reliability is a real problem currently. This is not a PR or comms issue!

[stefanlindbohm@mastodon.social]

@jon If there’s one thing I’ve learned working with this it’s that you never run out of reasons to manually override some supposedly standardised data

[vladimirn@piaille.fr]

@jon any cost ball park figure you'd share with us ? Did you run that travel or any of your friends/relatives ?
Interested genuine questions.
Thanks for the time.

[jon@gruene.social]

@VladimirN the post literally has a cost in it!

[ruben@zug.network]

@stefanlindbohm @jon why would you use cercanias if you can use Cuencanias?

[gavin57@toot.wales]

@jon @josgeluk Mike Downie did it on his show, Downie Live (Downie Express on Nebula). https://nebula.tv/videos/downielive-taking-the-train-from-the-arctic-circle-to-africa-full-series/

[jon@gruene.social]

@ruben @stefanlindbohm ah that’s clever. But I think it won’t save any total time compared to Puertollano.

[vladimirn@piaille.fr]

@jon OUCH ! thanks for the lead as my eyes are weak.
I'm heading to your blog.
You're not answering my other question and looking at the comments, I understand it is a nope.

[jon@gruene.social]

@gavin57 @josgeluk well no he didn’t. Because no train currently runs from Kemi to Haparanda. He did something vaguely similar.

[jon@gruene.social]

@VladimirN it’ll only be possible from this summer onwards. I’m not personally planning on doing it. Not yet anyway.

[shapr@recurse.social]

@jon @gavin57 @josgeluk lots of lovely bus lines between those two when I lived in Tornio

[jon@gruene.social]

@shapr @gavin57 @josgeluk which helps me how, given this is about the longest train ride in the EU!

[grumpydad@infosec.exchange]

@jon Wouldn't it be longer if you went from Helsinki though?

[jon@gruene.social]

@grumpydad read the blog post