🆕 EU Longest Train Journey 🆕

[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

[jon@gruene.social]

@grumpydad basically: adding loads of via stations you can add up route km. The issue here is what two places furthest apart in the EU can be connected by train, and that’s Kemijärvi - Lagos