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Could Vienna/Budapest - Belgrade direct trains really start running from 13 December? After so many rumours and false starts, timings for the two loco-hauled trains (though not ticket sales) are appearing on the MAV website:

Crying wolf is smart. Unless you’re the wolf.

Thus began The Great Fuckoffening ™️

I have been experimenting with the free Baldinger Map Animator mapanimator.baldinger.se to make videos about #CrossBorderRail routes 3 so far… Racławice Śląskie - Kędzierzyn-Koźle, Třemešná ve Slezsku - Osoblaha - Missing Link Explainer www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdjlXt…

“Neurodivergents are too early with their warnings and that’s the problem” is often portrayed as the intellectual interpretation of why normies go into overshoot and mass collapse. “Normies are too slow and too dumb to realise what’s happening” is never portrayed as the problem. Chop chop normies.

So good 🎉 I’m so really looking forward to my next trip there (once the new railway line from Budapest opens)

Important for the pessimistic german crowd who believe the AfD success is inevitable. Go where the people are, most people want a good future.

I understand the “yes, but…” takes about Serbia. The country has been kleptocratic for years, has a lot of unprocessed anger and complexes. Reform, progress are hard. But look at Budapest 6 months on from Magyar’s victory. You can start to turn it around with determination and hard work!

I had not really thought of it this way until a friend prompted me earlier this week, but I am basically analysing railways with a Brexit diagram in my head Connecting my previous and current work in a quick blog post 👇 jonworth.eu/analysing-rail…

Number one on this week’s Climate News Weekend Watchlist is from At The Water’s Edge discusses the difference between a global war and a world war 3. Professor Robert Pape explains the difference in detail. Worth watching.

OK, it had to be done Heuro Train to run Amsterdam - Paris trains in 2030 Complete 🐂 💩 Bullshit meter with an explainer👇 jonworth.eu/bullshit-meter…

Everything was rather late this week 😭 But my newsletter is finally out jonworth.eu/timetable-chan… This week: Analysis: Timetable Change 2027 Part 1: lines (re-)opening Bullshit Meter: Heuro to run Paris-Amsterdam trains in 2030 Good week: Other European railways step up to help Ukraine (a bit)

Company without any trains and no ability to get any by 2030 thinks they will run trains in 2030 #CrossBorderRail 🐂💩 www.treinreiziger.nl/heurotrain-ver…

They’re white. They’re men. They’re wealthy. They adore capitalism. If any of that is you - what’s wrong with everything about your soul? Why are you pretending to be a human?

No it is not that simple. Obama incompetents wrecked the U.S. economy. Clinton incompetents wrecked the U.S. economy. Biden incompetents wrecked the U.S. economy That’s why Trump got elected.

("Bloomberg) -- Three CoreWeave Inc. co-founders have sold $3.3 billion in company shares since last year's initial public offering, taking money off the table as rising credit risks and investor wariness around AI spending spark volatility in the stock." 😀 They know.

And *of course* 🇵🇹 building a broad gauge high speed line got all the whingeing going Here’s why re-gauging lines probably makes no sense: jonworth.eu/why-you-probab… And *were* Portugal to build a 1435mm HSL, then they’re going to need gauge changing trains, and look at Talgo’s mess currently

Today's newsletter is prepared, ready to go at 14:00 CEST Signup at jonworth.eu This week: Analysis: Wunderline turns to farce, and accountability collapses Bullshit Meter: Croatia - Greece trains on an EU funded coast line Good week: Battery trains for Niedersachsen, new tracks for Brandenburg

And today we have an *extra* bullshit meter, although this is more like gaslighting than bullshit Talgo claims its trains for DSB are reliable, while in reality they are the least reliable trains in the company’s entire fleet jonworth.eu/bullshit-meter…

Of Cross-border rail relevance, I yesterday crossed the Ponte Internacional Tuy-Valença on foot as there are no trains crossing it this year! As part of a journey from León to Porto, I walked from Guillarei 🇪🇸 to Valença 🇵🇹, 7km. Was quite pleasant but would have been nicer by train.

A pair of Taurus locomotives this evening on the ÖBB InterCity over to Velden am Wörthersee. I get a private four seat Business Class compartment for this 11 minute journey - not bad really! 😅

Turkey’s new high-speed railway has opened, bringing Çerkezköy and Edirne within 54 minutes of each other. Three trains run in each direction daily, with connections towards Istanbul at Çerkezköy. Our latest news: shorturl.at/Ht0j8

Get rid of the intelligentsia at an early stage = dictator playbook page 1. In the AI development, similar trends can be observed with regard to wealth, income, social status and political influence. This plays right into the hands of those who oppose democracy. A technology of control. Regulate.

Number 2 on the Climate News Weekend Watchlist is from Nate Hagens explaining how we are stupidly saving up for when we won’t be able to use our money: when we’ve reached climate collapse and our economies don’t exist anymore. Are you saving up for retirement after 2035? Maybe watch this:

My first ride on Etihad Rail is on this CAF unit from #AbuDhabi to #Dubai in the 2+2 layout Comfort / Second Class 🚆 This 1 hour trip starts from just €9.50 and even includes food, water & coffee! 🇦🇪 The ride quality is somewhat bumpy, but everything else is comfortable enough! #NonstopEurotrip

Heading through to Villach now, on the MICOTRA service through the alps! This smart looking high-speed locomotive is registered to a company known as "I-FUC". 🥴

Given 🇩🇰 & 🇩🇪 double decker push pull trains look *very similar*, and locomotives hauling them can (e.g. Siemens Vectron) can handle multiple voltages, I was asked: Can a DSB double deck train run Kolding 🇩🇰 - Padborg 🇩🇰 - Flensburg 🇩🇪? #CrossBorderRail ‼️ NO ‼️ Explained: jonworth.eu/how-alstoms-in…

With timetable change on the horizon 13 December, I am starting to systematically analyse what will change with #CrossBorderRail This first 🧵 is about lines that will change their status - places that had no service and will now get some passenger service Any I am missing, do tell me!

So even if England had the exact same amount of rain in year X as in year Y on the exact same days of the year, then year X would not be a drought and year Y would be an extreme drought; simply by year Y being 3 degrees Celsius warmer than year X.

Doubling by 2030 is really pathetic. India should be increasing its solar and wind power by 10x over the next 4 years. Pakistan did 10x in 24 months. India - why are you so slow? Can’t you guys match the Pakistanis?

When you need police protection to remove infrastructure used by people with disabilities, you know you are on the wrong side of history. #Bill212

Breaking News! Code UFB!!! As of October 13, Antarctic sea-ice extent is more than 5.0 standard deviations below the 1991-2020 daily average. Under "normal" circumstances, the likelihood of this happening just by chance would be about 1-in-5,800,000.

One of the ugliest trains in the world? This afternoon, I'm catching a Trenord ETR.421 unit out of Milan - with a garish colour scheme and a bizarre shape! What were they thinking? 😂

What luck - a newly refurbished Railjet set for the ride to Villach! Here's the fresh look of First Class, in a similar style to the new-build Railjet 2 sets, despite a few differences. Not bad! 😁

Socialists understand economics and investment far better than capitalists.

Yaaawwnnn... Sorry, 5am start this morning! On my way to the Yorkshire dales to give a talk.

The Sofia-Istanbul sleeper has been diverted over this new line, arrival now 07:21 vice 09:56. Departure westbound now 23:13 vice 20:00. Details at www.seat61.com/trains-and-r...

This week there have been a couple of cases of politically inappropriate stock photos of trains being used to illustrate stories Why this matters, and the most common ones to avoid, I have explained in this article: jonworth.eu/how-to-avoid-u…

That Flensburg 🇩🇪 - Padborg 🇩🇰 #CrossBorderRail would be a problem in 2027 could have been foreseen since 2024 Because DSB is incompetent, they did not act, and now propose a bus replacement for at least a year, likely much longer How the mess arose, what to do about it 👇 jonworth.eu/how-alstoms-in…

So here’s the solution - and even a timetable! - to fix Flensburg 🇩🇪 - Padborg 🇩🇰 (- Tinglev 🇩🇰) Aim high! The Vectron Sandwich solution! jonworth.eu/how-alstoms-in… (How you can make a connection every hour, using one train, with a locomotive on either end) #CrossBorderRail

First bike lane removal truck blocked.

A beautiful and exceptionally clear description of the narcissistic supply Donald needs daily and where he gets it from.

Angels Flight — Los Angeles Built in 1901 and still trundling passengers up & downhill in downtown Los Angeles to this day.

Does anyone need to know if the FT is in favour of Saudi Arabia’s chopping up of journalists? Somehow the intellectual giants working at the FT have not noticed that the Saudi crown moron is the barbaric guy wearing flip flops with no military to show for his wasted oil wealth fund.

You could - at a stretch - imagine how #CrossChannelRail trains to London could depart Gleis 5 at Köln Hbf In this article - with loads of photos and plans - I explain how you could do it: jonworth.eu/trains-to-lond… Whether you would actually WANT to is rather harder to answer!