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Everything about trains and trams (and subways) and tracks (rail and bicycle tracks) all across the world.
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NEW VIDEO! I'm going to be taking you on a First Class trip on the upper-deck of the TGV Lyria high-speed train, as I travel to amazing Switzerland in comfort and style, speeding through France at up to 320km/h!
WATCH: youtu.be/WNz5j48-jD4
WATCH: youtu.be/WNz5j48-jD4
November 19, 2025 at 5:30 PM
NEW VIDEO! I'm going to be taking you on a First Class trip on the upper-deck of the TGV Lyria high-speed train, as I travel to amazing Switzerland in comfort and style, speeding through France at up to 320km/h!
WATCH: youtu.be/WNz5j48-jD4
WATCH: youtu.be/WNz5j48-jD4
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One of the most controversial things I discovered in my #CrossChannelRail work is that the Avelia Horizon trains ordered by Eurostar do not comply with existing Channel Tunnel evacuation rules in the case of a controlled stop
Background, and how to overcome the issue 👇
jonworth.eu/the-avelia-h...
Background, and how to overcome the issue 👇
jonworth.eu/the-avelia-h...
The Avelia Horizon trains Eurostar has ordered from Alstom are not compliant with Channel Tunnel evacuation rules - what can be done about it? - Jon Worth
*** This post is an adapted version of one part of my #CrossChannelRail Project Final Report *** The two existing train types that operate long distance high speed services through the Channel Tunnel ...
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November 22, 2025 at 12:32 PM
One of the most controversial things I discovered in my #CrossChannelRail work is that the Avelia Horizon trains ordered by Eurostar do not comply with existing Channel Tunnel evacuation rules in the case of a controlled stop
Background, and how to overcome the issue 👇
jonworth.eu/the-avelia-h...
Background, and how to overcome the issue 👇
jonworth.eu/the-avelia-h...
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New climate degrowth song?
“Just enough makes you heavenly
If you want too much, then it's misery”
open.spotify.com/track/5UjyFZ...
“Just enough makes you heavenly
If you want too much, then it's misery”
open.spotify.com/track/5UjyFZ...
Angel Of Satisfaction (ft.JADE)
open.spotify.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:03 PM
New climate degrowth song?
“Just enough makes you heavenly
If you want too much, then it's misery”
open.spotify.com/track/5UjyFZ...
“Just enough makes you heavenly
If you want too much, then it's misery”
open.spotify.com/track/5UjyFZ...
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Since 1995, when the first Cop was held, carbon levels have increased from 360.67 parts per million to 426.68 parts now.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
As I write my last column, the facts on climate crisis speak for themselves
Since 1995, when the first Cop was held, carbon levels have increased from 360.67 parts per million to 426.68 parts now
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Since 1995, when the first Cop was held, carbon levels have increased from 360.67 parts per million to 426.68 parts now.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
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One of my students in my online comms workshop in Maastricht: "I don't know how third party apps are supposed to work, I am not a boomer" and she laughed
I was NOT laughing
If you have never asked yourself why third party apps matter, you're letting the social network itself determine what you see
I was NOT laughing
If you have never asked yourself why third party apps matter, you're letting the social network itself determine what you see
November 18, 2025 at 1:16 PM
One of my students in my online comms workshop in Maastricht: "I don't know how third party apps are supposed to work, I am not a boomer" and she laughed
I was NOT laughing
If you have never asked yourself why third party apps matter, you're letting the social network itself determine what you see
I was NOT laughing
If you have never asked yourself why third party apps matter, you're letting the social network itself determine what you see
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Some news on Nuremberg-Bayreuth. Bundestag budgeting committee is providing funds for electrification works, starting 2030. If and when the line to Cheb via Marktredwitz will be electrified as well, who knows. @jonworth.eu
www.sueddeutsche.de/bayern/frank...
www.sueddeutsche.de/bayern/frank...
November 18, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Some news on Nuremberg-Bayreuth. Bundestag budgeting committee is providing funds for electrification works, starting 2030. If and when the line to Cheb via Marktredwitz will be electrified as well, who knows. @jonworth.eu
www.sueddeutsche.de/bayern/frank...
www.sueddeutsche.de/bayern/frank...
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Do some effing research 🤬
Germany didn’t change the brake rules. The trains were ordered before 2021, not last year.
#CrossBorderRail
www.capital.fr/economie-pol...
Germany didn’t change the brake rules. The trains were ordered before 2021, not last year.
#CrossBorderRail
www.capital.fr/economie-pol...
Grand-Est : 400 millions d’euros dépensés pour des trains… interdits de rouler en Allemagne
Des rames Régiolis, achetées 400 millions d’euros pour les liaisons transfrontalières, ne peuvent pas circuler en Allemagne. Un contretemps qui pénalise les usagers et qui pousse la région Grand-Est à envisager des sanctions contre la SNCF.
www.capital.fr
November 19, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Do some effing research 🤬
Germany didn’t change the brake rules. The trains were ordered before 2021, not last year.
#CrossBorderRail
www.capital.fr/economie-pol...
Germany didn’t change the brake rules. The trains were ordered before 2021, not last year.
#CrossBorderRail
www.capital.fr/economie-pol...
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Annnnd there is *even more* bullshit in the Régiolis #CrossBorderRail saga, this time in Le Parisien
jonworth.eu/news-that-re...
This vice president of Grand Est, Thibaud Philipps, just keeps on making up more and more stuff. Which newspapers just transcribe, but do not question
jonworth.eu/news-that-re...
This vice president of Grand Est, Thibaud Philipps, just keeps on making up more and more stuff. Which newspapers just transcribe, but do not question
"News" that Régiolis cross border trains cannot operate in Germany is actually nothing new - Jon Worth
The latest setback in the entry into service of the new Régiolis fleet for France-Germany cross border services: now there is a problem with the emergency brakes, Le Republicain Lorrain reported yeste...
jonworth.eu
November 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Annnnd there is *even more* bullshit in the Régiolis #CrossBorderRail saga, this time in Le Parisien
jonworth.eu/news-that-re...
This vice president of Grand Est, Thibaud Philipps, just keeps on making up more and more stuff. Which newspapers just transcribe, but do not question
jonworth.eu/news-that-re...
This vice president of Grand Est, Thibaud Philipps, just keeps on making up more and more stuff. Which newspapers just transcribe, but do not question
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The next phase is to ask the local state monopoly operator VR with an exclusive agreement to run state funded trains until 2030 "are you interested and if so, then what are you willing to run with this money".
November 20, 2025 at 6:34 PM
The next phase is to ask the local state monopoly operator VR with an exclusive agreement to run state funded trains until 2030 "are you interested and if so, then what are you willing to run with this money".
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Neues Interrailangebot: -25% vom 25.11. - 17.12 www.sncf-connect.com/de-de/catalo... (ganz unten) #bahnbubble @zugpost.org @seatsixtyone.bsky.social @jonworth.eu
www.sncf-connect.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Neues Interrailangebot: -25% vom 25.11. - 17.12 www.sncf-connect.com/de-de/catalo... (ganz unten) #bahnbubble @zugpost.org @seatsixtyone.bsky.social @jonworth.eu
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And the transport minister of BaWü who commissioned this *is a member of the same political party as me*
Ok, I don't know him personally, but there is a member of the Bundestag I know who's also from BaWü who could have gone "there's this guy in our party who has been doing this for years already"
Ok, I don't know him personally, but there is a member of the Bundestag I know who's also from BaWü who could have gone "there's this guy in our party who has been doing this for years already"
November 21, 2025 at 1:52 PM
And the transport minister of BaWü who commissioned this *is a member of the same political party as me*
Ok, I don't know him personally, but there is a member of the Bundestag I know who's also from BaWü who could have gone "there's this guy in our party who has been doing this for years already"
Ok, I don't know him personally, but there is a member of the Bundestag I know who's also from BaWü who could have gone "there's this guy in our party who has been doing this for years already"
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“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.”
“Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath
Some costs aren’t costs.
“Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath
Some costs aren’t costs.
One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss
Copenhagen, the bicycle-friendliest place on the planet, publishes a biannual Bicycle Account, and buried in its pages is a rather astonishing fact.
grist.org
November 21, 2025 at 12:40 AM
“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.”
“Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath
Some costs aren’t costs.
“Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath
Some costs aren’t costs.
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Mamdani turns up Trump’s volume
November 21, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Mamdani turns up Trump’s volume
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We might finally get passenger trains Tornio - Haparanda next year! #CrossBorderRail
valtioneuvosto.fi/sv/-/regerin...
valtioneuvosto.fi/sv/-/regerin...
November 20, 2025 at 3:34 PM
We might finally get passenger trains Tornio - Haparanda next year! #CrossBorderRail
valtioneuvosto.fi/sv/-/regerin...
valtioneuvosto.fi/sv/-/regerin...
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this week's newsletter is titled "aren't you tired of feeling insane all the time?" and I think it speaks for itself
it is also free to read
youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
it is also free to read
youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
November 21, 2025 at 10:18 AM
this week's newsletter is titled "aren't you tired of feeling insane all the time?" and I think it speaks for itself
it is also free to read
youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
it is also free to read
youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
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This German obsession of studying everything to death instead of *acting*
And I have been working on *precisely this topic* for the past four years, and not a single person I know in this field has even mentioned BaWü is doing this
And I have been working on *precisely this topic* for the past four years, and not a single person I know in this field has even mentioned BaWü is doing this
November 21, 2025 at 1:49 PM
This German obsession of studying everything to death instead of *acting*
And I have been working on *precisely this topic* for the past four years, and not a single person I know in this field has even mentioned BaWü is doing this
And I have been working on *precisely this topic* for the past four years, and not a single person I know in this field has even mentioned BaWü is doing this
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Damn I am tired
Baden Württemberg - that is ABJECTLY INCAPABLE of fixing its own #CrossBorderRail to France...
... has conducted a study about this topic Europe wide, but has itself no way of acting on this. Nor is the study public.
FFS.
background.tagesspiegel.de/verkehr-und-...
Baden Württemberg - that is ABJECTLY INCAPABLE of fixing its own #CrossBorderRail to France...
... has conducted a study about this topic Europe wide, but has itself no way of acting on this. Nor is the study public.
FFS.
background.tagesspiegel.de/verkehr-und-...
Missing Links im EU-Bahnnetz: Noch viel zu tun
Im Schienennetz des vereinten Europas klaffen auch 80 Jahre nach dem Krieg zahlreiche Lücken. Nur ein Bruchteil von 51 grenzüberschreitenden Wunschprojekten ist bisher realisiert. Das zeigt eine Unter...
background.tagesspiegel.de
November 21, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Damn I am tired
Baden Württemberg - that is ABJECTLY INCAPABLE of fixing its own #CrossBorderRail to France...
... has conducted a study about this topic Europe wide, but has itself no way of acting on this. Nor is the study public.
FFS.
background.tagesspiegel.de/verkehr-und-...
Baden Württemberg - that is ABJECTLY INCAPABLE of fixing its own #CrossBorderRail to France...
... has conducted a study about this topic Europe wide, but has itself no way of acting on this. Nor is the study public.
FFS.
background.tagesspiegel.de/verkehr-und-...
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I see a leading voice in the climate tech world attacking teachers for not properly embracing AI in the classroom.
You know who has been trying to tell teachers he knew how to do their jobs better than them? For years? Bill Gates.
You know who has no teaching experience? Bill Gates
You know who has been trying to tell teachers he knew how to do their jobs better than them? For years? Bill Gates.
You know who has no teaching experience? Bill Gates
November 21, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I see a leading voice in the climate tech world attacking teachers for not properly embracing AI in the classroom.
You know who has been trying to tell teachers he knew how to do their jobs better than them? For years? Bill Gates.
You know who has no teaching experience? Bill Gates
You know who has been trying to tell teachers he knew how to do their jobs better than them? For years? Bill Gates.
You know who has no teaching experience? Bill Gates
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I'm being asked for takes on COP30. If anyone has a swear box then they could make a few bob.
November 21, 2025 at 11:54 AM
I'm being asked for takes on COP30. If anyone has a swear box then they could make a few bob.
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"A decade ago, science showed us a narrow window of opportunity to avert the looming planetary crisis. That window has closed. We are now in the midst of the storm"
My latest for Technosphere Earth reporting on a new paper published with the Earth League.
www.technosphere.earth/living-beyon...
My latest for Technosphere Earth reporting on a new paper published with the Earth League.
www.technosphere.earth/living-beyon...
Living beyond limits
Decades of climate policy failure means we must find ways to live in a more dangerous world
www.technosphere.earth
November 21, 2025 at 1:13 PM
"A decade ago, science showed us a narrow window of opportunity to avert the looming planetary crisis. That window has closed. We are now in the midst of the storm"
My latest for Technosphere Earth reporting on a new paper published with the Earth League.
www.technosphere.earth/living-beyon...
My latest for Technosphere Earth reporting on a new paper published with the Earth League.
www.technosphere.earth/living-beyon...
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The fossil fuel lobbyists are sitting around saying “this is fine”
BREAKING: The UN climate talks COP30 have been evacuated due to a fire breaking out inside the venue in Belém, Brazil.
November 21, 2025 at 10:16 AM
The fossil fuel lobbyists are sitting around saying “this is fine”
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It's always the ones you most expect...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Cryptocurrency backed by Farage donor is used for Russian war effort, investigators say
Tether tokens found to facilitate scheme that enables sanctions evasion and launders money for the Kremlin
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:47 AM
It's always the ones you most expect...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Why do our societies still celebrate fossil fuel climate destruction as a sport?
It’s grotesque.
It’s grotesque.
Formula 1’s Most Valuable Teams 2025
With investors racing to get into F1, the ten teams on the grid are now worth $3.6 billion on average, and the leaders of the pack even outpace some NFL and NBA franchises.
With investors racing to get into F1, the ten teams on the grid are now worth $3.6 billion on average, and the leaders of the pack even outpace some NFL and NBA franchises.
Forbes Formula 1’s Most Valuable Teams 2025 List
Ferrari, Mercedes and McLaren top Forbes' 2025 list of Formula 1's most valuable teams. See the latest valuations of the financial powerhouses on the F1 grid.
www.forbes.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Why do our societies still celebrate fossil fuel climate destruction as a sport?
It’s grotesque.
It’s grotesque.
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Was Jeffrey Epstein working for Mossad?
I used to dismiss this as a conspiracy theory.
But new revelations mean we can't ignore his extensive links with Israel.
I used to dismiss this as a conspiracy theory.
But new revelations mean we can't ignore his extensive links with Israel.
November 18, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Was Jeffrey Epstein working for Mossad?
I used to dismiss this as a conspiracy theory.
But new revelations mean we can't ignore his extensive links with Israel.
I used to dismiss this as a conspiracy theory.
But new revelations mean we can't ignore his extensive links with Israel.