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Jon Worth

@jonworth.eu
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European, originally a Brit, became German, moved to France. Runs #CrossBorderRail project, writes a newsletter about railways. Green, lives happily without a car. Normally stuck on a train, stuck in a village, or escaping either on a folding bicycle.

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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 3m
Yes. The seats in the Estonian ones are a sort of suburban format, 2+3. Not great!
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 19h
There’s a distinction between malevolence and incompetence, and I think we’re mostly still with the latter for this project anyway.
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 19h
See www.medienservice.sachsen.de/medien/news/11…
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Grenzüberschreitende Infrastruktur besser gemeinsam umsetzen
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 19h
EU to help this week: Sachsen 🇩🇪 seeks assistance to solve its cross border transport problems Bad week: No plans to re-open the crossborder line Pilszcz 🇵🇱 to Opava 🇨🇿 Photo of the week: Tracks at Racławice Śląskie 🇵🇱
A field near Opava where a train line used to run
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 19h
Also a good week: Stadler electric trains to start service in Lithuania, with possible positive impact on international services Even more good news this week: 4th daily OUIGO service Paris-Bruxelles at weekends from December
LTG Link Stadler EMU
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 19h
It's a bumper newsletter this week, ready to go to subscribers at 14:00 CEST! Signup at jonworth.eu Analysis: Who should set connection times to allow passengers to change trains? The Czechs have it right. Good week: Wunderline 🇳🇱🇩🇪 re-opens on Monday
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Jon Worth
Independent Railway Commentator
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 01/10/2026
🤔
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 01/10/2026
Ah Sachsen 🇩🇪 - that’s been unable to electrify Dresden - Görlitz - Zgorzelec 🇵🇱 for >20 years is starting an EU funded Interreg project about international #CrossBorderRail public transport www.medienservice.sachsen.de/medien… I suppose they know what to NOT do!
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 01/10/2026
Did he conclude anything useful? About what investments are needed?
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 29/09/2026
There’s no lowering of standards. It’s German government lowering finance.
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 28/09/2026
I don’t disagree. But what do we DO about that? Because the system we’ve built mitigates against anyone with any edge, commitment or determination getting anywhere up through the system…
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 28/09/2026
EN 50432 isn’t operated by DB 🤷‍♂️
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 28/09/2026
I think the story of our era will be of a political class that were not only not up to the times they faced, but often wilfully blind to them.
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 28/09/2026
I’m German 🤷‍♂️
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 28/09/2026
Density of network and service matters. Look at how few points France even has!
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 28/09/2026
It is now fixed
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 28/09/2026
You seen French prices? 🤔 It’s one of the better value ones!
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 28/09/2026
I think I hit the wrong button. Correcting!
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 28/09/2026
Right, and actually they do a semi reasonable job nationally, given the investment shortfall. But Spain DID invest, but look at how bad that is internationally too.
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 28/09/2026
Sure, it is annoying, I get that. But put it in perspective!
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 28/09/2026
Well I am German 😄
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 28/09/2026
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: jonworth.eu/your-deutsche-… #CrossBorderRail
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Your Deutsche Bahn "joke" is no longer funny (if it ever was)
Before attempting my record attempt between Kemijärvi, Finland and Lagos, Portugal, people told me over and over it would break down in Germany. So much so that I even tried to re-but (pre-but?) some of the likely critique. Now, having made the trip, and none of the total
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 28/09/2026
What? Moving abandoned rail isn’t really a solution. If people want to sabotage there are plenty of objects to find!
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 28/09/2026
BTW I checked: no Berlin-Paris or Paris-Berlin direct at least until December 😭 (That doesn’t negate your Schengen point of course!)
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 28/09/2026
Given there are only 2 trains a day on that line I wondered if they’d bother. But they did.
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 28/09/2026
Ok! I’ll check - it’s possible they now re-started all the way to Berlin.
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 28/09/2026
But doors beep. Isn’t that enough?
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 28/09/2026
Do you know why SNCF announces doors closing inside the whole train, not just in the door areas?
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 28/09/2026
That’s back running to Berlin? For months it went only to Frankfurt. But Kehl is the worst for checks. I’ve been checked there loads.
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 28/09/2026
Right. Exactly.
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 28/09/2026
Today’s #CrossBorderRail: Kędzierzyn-Koźle - Leipzig - Frankfurt - Bruxelles. Just been subjected to an illegal non #Schengen compliant control entering 🇩🇪 In Bruxelles I’m going to #ConnectingEuropeDays, a big @ec.europa.eu event about transport How many other attendees were subjected to the same?
PKP IC train at Kędzierzyn-Koźle - platforms to both sides, clear morning sky above. The train is a PKP IC Newag Griffin, blue and grey
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 28/09/2026
But WHY? The operational day of TGVs is already too short - why shorten it even more? Are these early and late TGVs really loss making?
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 27/09/2026
Agh, Strasbourg - Lyon is already rubbish. And so they make it *even worse*!
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 27/09/2026
The station as the light fades
Tracks into sunset Dimly lit station Tracks to the east Water tower
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 27/09/2026
Racławice Śląskie
Racławice Śląskie rail bridge drone pic - wide viewRacławice Śląskie rail bridge drone pic - close diagonal viewRacławice Śląskie rail bridge drone pic - straight view with reflection
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 27/09/2026
I went there by bike (so it is ticked off already), and although I am right now quite close to it, by tomorrow I will be some distance away. It's a super nice area though, one day I will try the line!
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 26/09/2026
Ha. No 😀 No trains stop there. So there’s no need 😅
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Streisand Effect, Activate.
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 26/09/2026
Today has been an amazing #CrossBorderRail day Not sure Uzhhorod 🇺🇦 - Maťovské Vojkovce 🇸🇰 is good for passenger trains (it’s freight only) But I had a fun day working that out, cycling in eastern Slovakia. Tyre punctures couldn’t deter me! 😀
Škoda Logo on an old ZSSK train The broad gauge line Slovakia - Ukraine Birdy bike with a puncture, upside down for repairs Selfie of Jon at Cierna nad Tisou
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 26/09/2026
Krišovská Liesková Mokcsamogyorós #CrossBorderRail
Krišovská Liesková
Mokcsamogyorós
Small station halt
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 26/09/2026
Follow my link. All explained. You can walk Alcantara Terra - Alcantara Mar
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 25/09/2026
The seats and interiors hall is such a mess I couldn't work that out, sorry! But there is some padding to these seats, they're not as bad as they look.
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 25/09/2026
Upright yes, but not a bad shape to the back. The seats in the Mireo and Kiss Railjets were much worse than these Flix ones!
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 25/09/2026
It won't. DB is not stupid.
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 25/09/2026
I got so tired of being asked that I wrote about it: crossborderrail.eu/longestjourn... Total delay caused by Germany in the record bid: none! Really.
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Record attempt: Longest train journey in the EU
The record is set: 125 hours 31 mins 7-11 September: follow the record attempt live! Trip massively disrupted in Haparanda Timetable and all details below now being revised! New: technical data for th...
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 25/09/2026
I have 55km on the bike tomorrow around Košice 😀 And more on Sunday at Opava and Osoblaha! But the combination of the tough trip to Finland, the stress of the record trip, then the madness of Innotrans and it is all a bit much. 1 October I am finally home :-)
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 25/09/2026
Although to be fair this Spanish Youtuber went all the way from Portugal to Singapore by train, and started in the wrong place 😀 www.youtube.com/watch?v=kB0C... Background and explanation why if it is Singapore it is Cascais not Lagos jonworth.eu/the-longest-... #LongestTrainEU
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Hice El Viaje En Tren Más Largo Del Mundo En 25 Días
YouTube video by Ramilla de Aventura
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 25/09/2026
100 hours 9 minutes - my initial timetable - is for now the fastest you can do it. I expect new timetables from December will make it faster. And it is not Germany, but Sweden, Spain and Portugal that are the main constraints.
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 25/09/2026
Comment under the #LongestTrainEU video "Awesome journey - but I think Narvik to Lagos will be a longer journey than the one shown" Well you did not think or research very much did you! And do you really think I went to all that effort and had not checked that? 😄
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 25/09/2026
FINALLY we have the right version of the Kemijärvi 🇫🇮 - Lagos 🇵🇹 #LongestTrainEU film up on Youtube! 😀 Watch me battle my way past cancellations, delays, and have good luck at Badajoz 🇪🇸 The record is: 125 hours, 31 mins Who wants to have a go at doing it faster? 🤔 www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAJd...
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125 Hours - Longest Train Journey in the EU: From the Arctic to the Atlantic
YouTube video by Simply Railway
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