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Everything about trains and trams (and subways) and tracks (rail and bicycle tracks) all across the world. Plus some general transport related stuff.

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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 15h
Germany wasted so much money on fossil fuels the last 5 years when they could have invested in cheap solar and batteries. Now Germany tells the rest of Europe that because Germany is so bad with its own finances and burnt it all on overpriced fossil fuels, now all of Europe needs to spend less.
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Drastic budget cutbacks essential to fund Europe's defense, Germany and allies warn
Six European leaders have called for major cuts to a proposed 2 trillion euro budget.
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Superalbs @superalbs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
What better way to celebrate a great few days at Innotrans than riding a few locomotives around in the tunnels of Berlin Hbf? 😁
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Superalbs @superalbs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Time to head from Berlin to Kraków on the PKP Intercity EC train, a nice 7 hour trip through the country. Honestly after these intense two weeks, I think I will take a few days away from trains! 😂
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Superalbs @superalbs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A look at Končar's new long-distance unit, including their extremely luxurious First Class with massive reclining seats. These trains have just entered service on the LONG route from Zagreb to Split (8 hours), so it'll be interesting to see how well they're received on this trip! 👀
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The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
No wonder the infamous Renfe.com needs the upgrade! “The current system is based on almost 400 interconnected applications, many of them programmed in obsolete languages and having been in service for between 20 and 30 years”
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Renfe | Train tickets AVE, Avlo Low Cost (with No Booking Fees)
Buy cheap train tickets AVE, Avlo high speed Low Cost ✓ Timetables, Fares and Discounts ✅ No Booking Fees! ▷ ( Renfe.com )
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Railin EN (formerly Trenvista) @railineng.railin.net · 29/09/2026
The Spanish state operator Renfe will begin rolling out a new ticketing system in the coming months, promising to resolve shortcomings in the current platform and improve the passenger experience. We outline the key details. railin.net/en/news/r...
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Renfe unveils new ticketing system, due to launch on 28 October
The Spanish state operator Renfe will begin rolling out a new ticketing system in the coming months, promising to resolve shortcomings in the current platform and improve the passenger experience. We outline the key details.
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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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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 21h
Impressionable boomers and California wine moms watch Paramount and CNN and Warner and HBO and Discovery. Donald Trump’s media and tech billionaire groupie, Larry Ellison, is about to own all of those networks. Watch this fact-filled short video from Charles McBryde on TikTok:
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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 · 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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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yup. That’s the capitalist way. The USA and UK have been exporting that death cult to the entire world for two centuries and it shows.
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marc konijn @marckonijn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Vandaag de hele dag in de trein gezeten, ben aangeland in Barcelona, en reis morgenochtend door naar Calpe - een Mekka onder wielrenners Mijn fietsvrienden verkennen daar de streek, en ik ga mee voor de gezelligheid (voor de mensen die me niet kennen: ik heb long covid, dus 🚴‍♂️ gaat niet meer) 👇
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 17/09/2026
#LongestTrainEU article by @nathandomon.bsky.social is in European Correspondent europeancorrespondent.com/en/r/from-fi...
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From Finland to Portugal by train in just 125 hours
Last week, Jon Worth, a railway activist who advocates for better cross-border train travel across Europe, completed the longest train journey in the EU – from…
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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Good morning from King Street Station where we're getting a preview of the first new trainsets on Amtrak Cascades in nearly three decades and the first phase of a national Airo train rollout.
Bob Ferguson giving a speech in front of a new Airo Amtrak train
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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I just think it is really cool that Seattle is the home base of this entire fleet and that we need a new 100,000 square foot maintenance facility to take care of them.
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Climate change helped cancel Ed Sheeran’s concerts in Boston.
A photo of a man who supports both sides in a murder: both the murderer and the victim.BREAKING NEWS
Ed Sheeran's concerts at Robert Kraft's Gillette stadium in Boston canceled hours before showtime
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 25/09/2026
The video of #LongestTrainEU is now online, but it *still* has so many errors in it (despite me having sent a long list of factual corrections to the editor), so I am not linking to it currently. To have worked so hard to get this right, and for it to still be a fiasco makes me REALLY 🤬
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Aaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Every Renfe train scheduled in Spain on Thursday 24 September, 5,544 of them. Three in four are commuter trains (red); the purple high-speed trains fan out from Madrid. Peak is 7:51 PM, not the morning rush: 533 moving at once. Data: Renfe, OpenStreetMap #Spain #trains #dataviz
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 21/09/2026
Today‘s #CrossBorderRail - special train Bruxelles - Berlin for #Innotrans
DB EU livery ICE
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 22/09/2026
So. World‘s Longest Train Journey next year then 😅 This is the start of an intermittent #Innotrans thread
Card for Innotrans Asia
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Joanne @joannefirth.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
New Haven's Union Station to be transformed into a world-class transportation hub. Connecticut
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New Haven Union Station plans call for major upgrades and new local businesses
State and city leaders have unveiled plans to transform New Haven’s Union Station into what they describe as a world-class transportation hub, with extensive renovations to modernize the historic rail station and improve the experience for millions of passengers. The proposed upgrades would overhaul both the interior and exterior of the more than 100-year-old station, which serves nearly 4 million…
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ZN @znconsulting.com · 18/09/2026
✈️ Meet the #EUinfluencer2026 Top 5 in Travel & Tourism: 🥇 @jonworth.eu 🥈 Agnès Leroux 🥉 Nicholas Hall 🏅 @eurocentrique.bsky.social 🏅 Ourania Georgoutsakou #EUinfluencer #10YearsofEUInfluencer
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The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The new Brussels-Milan European Sleeper is up and running - I've updated Seat 61 with more photos, scenery shots and tips. London to Italy with one easy same-station change in Brussels: www.seat61.com/trains-and-r...
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Benedict Cumberbatch presents How to Live on Earth. “Living on Mars would be horrible. Let’s try to live on Earth.”
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How to Live on Earth | Feature Documentary | Presented by Benedict Cumberbatch
YouTube video by Open Planet
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𝖳𝖧𝖤 𝖦𝖱𝖤𝖤𝖭 𝖶𝖨𝖳𝖢𝖧 🌿 @magissaki.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Αφήνω για λίγο την Κβαντομηχανική, για να επιστρέψω στην Κλιματολογία και να σας πω ότι ξεφύγαμε από τον στόχο των 1,5°C και δε μιλάει κανείς γι' αυτό. Αλλά θεωρώ οτι συνιστά λόγο για τον οποίο μυρίζει μπαρούτι παγκόσμια.
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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Great to see @eurcorrespond.bsky.social covering @jonworth.eu's longest train journey project. europeancorrespondent.com/en/r/from-fi...
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From Finland to Portugal by train in just 125 hours
Last week, Jon Worth, a railway activist who advocates for better cross-border train travel across Europe, completed the longest train journey in the EU – from…
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 18/09/2026
Win! 😆 #EUinfluencer
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 20/09/2026
We just released the Mayor's Management Report for Fiscal Year 2026, and here's what we found: pothole politics is working and young New Yorkers are finding a government that serves them. Learn more at on.nyc.gov/managementreport
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Number 12 on the Climate News Weekend Watchlist is from DW News. Moscow is on fire! Ukrainian attacks on the Russian capital show that Putin is losing control. Worth watching:
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Record Ukrainian attack leaves Moscow ablaze on election day | DW News
YouTube video by DW News
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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“People may not fully grasp just how wound up the market and the economy is in all of this,” said Jim Morrow, chief executive officer of the Boston investment firm Callodine Capital Management. “There are just so many things to unravel if it starts.” So many things await us in The Great Unraveling
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AI’s Wobbly House of Cards Puts Markets and US Economy at Risk
The heads of America’s leading AI development labs have started a national conversation about tapping the brakes on a technology that’s offering so much promise for society, while at the same time sho...
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Protect Bridgeport Bicyclists @stevevance.net · 19/09/2026
My mom had this to say about the ICNG train on the high speed line (introduced just a few years ago)…
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The China-Global South Project @chinagsproject.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Thailand's $15 billion bullet train with China was due to open its first stretch in 2023; the new date is 2030, and the technician trained to run it now works for a postal service. chinaglobalsouth.com/analysis/chi...
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‘Basic’ Chinese Knowledge Sharing Dims Thai Rail Job Prospects
By Pongpiphat Banchanont A dream that is yet to arrive. That is how rail technician Komcharn Kaewprasert describes his experience under the tech transfer platform of the Thai-Chinese high-speed rail…
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Phil Marsh @marshrail.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
@signaloftheday.bsky.social @locusinpes.bsky.social will know given he was next to me but does @paulbigland.bsky.social know? Or anyone else for that matter? @trainstramstracks.bsky.social @teamgreen70020.bsky.social @railfocus.bsky.social - no chance!
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The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Finally, some 2h50 late, the inaugural European Sleeper from Brussels to Milan is on its way!
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
So cut fossil fuel emissions rapidly so that Canadians and Europeans can actually survive. What’s the point of having deep alliances of dead people?
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Brilliant 👏 www.thejournal.ie/classic-hits...
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Classic Hits Radio to remove Ed Sheeran music 'for foreseeable future' amid Macklemore row
The Irish station said it received feedback from listeners “expressing disappointment and concern regarding the events surrounding the tour”.
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The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
My report on @EuropeanSlpr’s inaugural Brussels-Milan sleeper train is now ‘live’ in the Daily Telegraph online travel section: www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/916c882...
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Europe’s newest sleeper train offers vintage vibes and spectacular scenery
It’s an environmentally sustainable alternative to budget flights, but European Sleeper’s latest route has teething problems to overcome
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 14/09/2026
Finally downloaded the photos from the Douro line Régua - Pocinho 🇵🇹 from yesterday. These turned out well! It's a stunning line. #CrossBorderRail
View from the open window heading towards Pocinho on the Douro line - train to the left, river and vineyards right, everything mostly in sunCloser view of the train - orange locomotive and two silver carriages seen. Train is in late afternoon sun before heading into a shadowy sectionView taken inside the train, showing the opening windows of the Schindler built car, with river and vineyards outsideLast light, heading back towards Régua. Train to the right, river left, dusk sky above, only the river and the carriage are lit
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Joanne @joannefirth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Make a mad dash to COSTCO NOW if your FOSSIL FUEL BURNING DEATH MACHINE needs oil!
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Costco hikes motor oil prices and puts limits on how much members can buy
Costco is limiting sales of its house brand motor oil to two units per customer per week amid rising oil prices.
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Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Really wanna take my unladen light as a feather bike for a high speed spin around MSP Union Station on this super smooth marble floor but I am sure they’d kick me out and I’d miss my train.
Large train station with marble floor
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Blij Dorper @blijdorper.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Voor je YouTube algoritme: youtu.be/b5oJxZyPhfY?... 🤓
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I Tried China’s FUTURISTIC Capsule Hotel High-Speed Sleeper Train
YouTube video by Simon Andersen
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pglux.bsky.social @pglux.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Since the start of ⚡works on Salamanca - Villar Formoso (2018), cable thefts represent 30km in total 🫣😱😭 1/4 of the total distance in-between 🤬💥☠️ EIS not expected earlier than Summer 2027, at the very best. @jonworth.eu @akalanka.masto.es.ap.brid.gy www.salamancahoy.es/salamanca/pr...
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Los ladrones hacen caja en la línea del tren entre Salamanca y Portugal y se llevan decenas de kilómetros de cobre sin miedo a las electrocuciones | Salamancahoy
Una oleada de robos desmantela buena parte de la electrificación sin que Adif logre frenarla; la obra va tarde, no está vigilada y tampoco tiene tensión eléctrica pese a los carteles, por lo que es un...
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 13/09/2026
This is a #LongestTrainEU thread of the thread 😄 Apparently trying to work out what happened, when, in the huge thread is a mess So this should help!
Jon on a bench that reads Good Trip
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Number 3 on the Climate News Weekend Watchlist: Examining the reported convergence of pressure on three critical energy routes: the Strait of Hormuz, the Bab al-Mandab Strait, and Saudi Arabia's East-West Pipeline. Vessel transits through Hormuz reportedly fell to seven on September 11.
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Iran’s Oil Trap Just Snapped Shut—YOUR Gas Prices Are Next
YouTube video by Professor Gerdes Explains 🇺🇦
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 08/09/2026
The #LongestTrainEU mega thread is below the picture All being well I should *finally* get away from Haparanda tomorrow morning at 07:40 CEST!
Tornio - Haparanda border bridge today under heavy skies
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The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
And the sleeper from Milan arrives at Brussels Midi, 10 minutes ahead of schedule…
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Ranaroth @ranaroth.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
National Tramway Museum, Crich, Derbyshire. Southampton Corporation Tramways no. 45. Hurst Nelson, Motherwell, 1903. Ex. Leeds; Blackpool; National Motor Museum, Beaulieu, Hampshire; to Crich, 10/1960. Photo: 30.06.2008. #Crich #Derbyshire #tram #railway @trainstramstracks.bsky.social
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The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I’ve a soft spot for these venerable AB30 sleeping-cars. Built in 1956 as P-types with 20 duplex single compartments, completely rebuilt in the 1990s with a more conventional 10-compartment layout usable as single double or triple. Only European sleeping car in stainless steel.
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The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Heading back on the European Sleeper from Milan to Brussels, this time in a single sleeper - Comfort Plus in European Sleeper parlance. 2h05 late start, let’s see how we get on…
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Sam @allukstations.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Time to head north! An SJ 3000 train taking me on the scenic journey from Stockholm to Umeå 🇸🇪 Interestingly the faster part of the route is further north with some new bits of 250km/h high speed line but at the moment nothing goes over 200km/h until some new trains arrive.
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