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so apparently only 19% of americans are still #pureblood with zero covid jabs
that's a catastrophic stat.
Not sure. Some won't get the chance, others will cut a deal and sing like a canary.
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Welcome to today's thread - 2025 #CrossBorderRail Finale Day 45 - 5 August - Wien - Zürich - Dijon - Ravières
Today's new borders:
None
Borders map, inc. borders re-crossed:
umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/c…
Today's trains on the routes map:
umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/c…
The final big #CrossBorderRail tour - to the eastern borders of the EU, and missing intra-EU borders. In June-July 2025.uMap
The long route home. Hopefully without mishap!
Fingers crossed a crucial 14 min change in Zürich works!
Here's today's #CrossBorderRail music track
Welcome Home
Selina & Hanspeter
Thanks @K1ngdaKa88 & @krist for this one - a SBB commissioned song.
youtube.com/watch?v=4OARVJUQB1…
Welcome Home -- Selina & Hanspeter (OFFICIAL)Agency: Rod KommunikationYouTube
#CrossBorderRail Finale Train 166 of 169
REX 3
04:57 Wien Praterstern - Wien Meidling 05:14
ÖBB
Train type: Siemens Desiro ML EMU, 2x 3 carriages
⚡️ (15kV ac)
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (step free, hefty on board lift if not)
🛜: ✅ (and it works)
🍽️: ⛔️
🧳: 🙂
🧽: 🙂
🎫 Interrail: 🙂 (accepted)
REX 3
04:57 Wien Praterstern - Wien Meidling 05:14
Distance: 8.5km
Average speed: 32km/h
6 stops:
Wien Mitte
Wien Rennweg
Wien Quartier Belvedere
Wien Hbf (Bahnsteige 1-2)
Wien Matzleinsdorfer Platz
Wien Meidling
This train, mapped: umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/c…
The final big #CrossBorderRail tour - to the eastern borders of the EU, and missing intra-EU borders. In June-July 2025.uMap
Here’s this morning‘s intro video peertube.netzbegruenung.de/w/o…
4 trains today and a long trip back to Ravières
#CrossBorderRail Finale Train 167 of 169
RJX 368
05:35 Wien Meidling - Zürich HB (diverted via Schwarzach) 15:20
ÖBB
Train type: Siemens 1116 Taurus locomotive, fixed 7 carriage formation, driving control car
⚡️ (15kV ac)
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (lift on board)
🛜: ✅
🍽️: ✅
🧳: 🙂
🧽: 🙂 (spotless - Railjet cleanliness is generally excellent)
🎫 Interrail: 🙂 (accepted)
Top score!
RJX 368
05:35 Wien Meidling - Zürich HB (via Schwarzach) 15:20
Distance: 836km
Average speed: 86km/h
15 stops:
St.Pölten Hbf
Linz/Donau Hbf
Salzburg Hbf
Bischofshofen
Schwarzach im Pongau-St.Veit
Wörgl Hbf
Innsbruck Hbf
Ötztal
Landeck-Zams
St.Anton am Arlberg
Bludenz
Feldkirch
Buchs SG
Sargans
Zürich HB
This train, mapped: umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/c…
The final big #CrossBorderRail tour - to the eastern borders of the EU, and missing intra-EU borders. In June-July 2025.uMap
Ah ha
Perfect! 😀
The only #CrossBorderRail line with passenger traffic, sort of, that I am now missing is...
Roma San Pietro 🇮🇹 - Citta Vaticano 🇻🇦
There's probably no god, now stop worrying and enjoy your #CrossBorderRail! 🎉
umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/c…
(and yes, it is temporarily closed, and yes, it only runs once a week normally)
All of Europe's rail borders - categorised by type, and whether I (Jon Worth) have been to the location.uMap
And there are four active #CrossBorderRail lines where the track is legally active, but there are no passenger trains, that I am missing
Eglaine 🇱🇻 - Obeliai 🇱🇹
Renge 🇱🇻 - Mažeikiai 🇱🇹
Rybnitsa 🇲🇩 (Transnistria) - Klymentove 🇺🇦
Uzhhorod 🇺🇦 - Maťovské Vojkovce 🇸🇰
So I have been to all bar 5 active railway #CrossBorderRail lines between all of these
ALL 🇪🇺 countries (except 🇲🇹, 🇨🇾 that have no railways)
🇳🇴
🇨🇭
🇱🇮
🇬🇧
🇷🇸
🇧🇦
🇲🇰
🇲🇪
🇦🇱
🇲🇩
🇺🇦
I am missing
🇻🇦
🇬🇪
🇦🇲
🇦🇿
For political reasons I won't go to
🇷🇺
🇧🇾
so those aren't counted
🇹🇷 to 🇪🇺 is covered, to 🇬🇪🇦🇲 it's not
There are however still 67 disused and dismantled #CrossBorderRail lines I have not yet been to...
Although only a handful have any prospect of re-activation
So I am not going to try to go to those!
So I have used the long trip today, and reasonable WiFi, to update my map of all of Europe's rail borders - of all sorts
Pink pins are where I have been, grey pins are the ones I am missing
Zoomable map: umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/c…
All of Europe's rail borders - categorised by type, and whether I (Jon Worth) have been to the location.uMap
I have changed how I list these borders now
A line that crosses a border multiple times (like Bihać 🇧🇦 - Knin 🇭🇷) is listed only once, and there is a new category of markers called Transit Markers that simply shows the border crossings, with a different icon, and there are 35 such Transit Markers
If there is a junction somewhere along the way (as there is Hagenwerder 🇩🇪 - Krzewina Zgorzelecka 🇵🇱 - Hirschfelde 🇩🇪) then those are still counted separately
Stats are as follows:
Active passenger line - visited by 🚆 (135)
Active passenger line - visited by 🚲 (42)
Active passenger line - visited by 🚌🚙 (4)
Active passenger line - visited total (181)
Active passenger line - not yet visited (1)
Active line, no passenger service - visited by 🚆 (3)
Active line, no passenger service - visited by 🚲 (44)
Active line, no passenger service - visited by 🚌🚙 (13)
Active line, no passenger service - visited total (70)
Active line, no passenger service - not yet visited (4)
Dismantled or disused line - visited by 🚲 (85)
Dismantled or disused line - visited by 🚌🚙 (4)
Dismantled or disused line - visited total (89)
Dismantled or disused lines - not yet visited (66)
Narrow Gauge or Other Special Lines - visited (10)
Narrow Gauge or Other Special Lines - not visited (28)
Tramways - visited (20)
Tramways - not visited (23)
Other (18) - visited
So that gives a total of
3️⃣8️⃣8️⃣
#CrossBorderRail lines visited!
🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉
(Edited: found I had counted a Czech border wrong, so it's 388 not 390!)
#CrossBorderRail Finale Train 168 of 169
TGV 9226
15:34 Zürich HB - Dijon Ville 18:00
TGV Lyria
Train type: Alstom TGV Euroduplex, 8 short double deck carriages
⚡️ (15kV ac, 25kV ac, 1.5kV dc)
🚲: ⛔️
🦽: ✅ (step free then lift down inside)
🛜: ⛔️ (installed but won’t work)
🍽️: ✅
🧳: ☹️ (TGV Duplex so awful)
🧽: 🙂
🎫 Interrail: 😐 (needs compulsory reservation, costs €29 - which is a scandalous price)
TGV 9226
15:34 Zürich HB - Dijon Ville 18:00
Distance: 327.6km
Average speed: 135km/h
3 stops:
Basel SBB
Mulhouse Ville
Dijon Ville
This train, mapped: umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/c…
The final big #CrossBorderRail tour - to the eastern borders of the EU, and missing intra-EU borders. In June-July 2025.uMap
We’ve now had 6 or 7 announcements warning us about pickpockets and keeping an eye on our belongings
But on a TGV Duplex it’s hard as luggage racks are beyond the end doors of carriages
I *could* lock my bag to the luggage rack, but I imagine that’s not allowed as it’s a terrorist risk?
Ok, I checked. In TGV Lyria anyway they’ve got no problem with you locking your bag to a luggage rack (note this is one SBB Lyria train manager’s opinion - don’t consider it a hard rule!)
And his SNCF counterpart was excellent and friendly and acknowledged it is a design problem (racks badly placed)
#CrossBorderRail Finale Train 169 of 169
TER 91358
18:33 Dijon Ville - Nuits-sous-Ravières 19:19
SNCF for TER Mobigo
Train type: Bombardier AGC Bi-mode MU 4 short carriages
⚡️ (1.5kV dc)
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (step free if station allows)
🛜: ⛔️
🍽️: ⛔️
🧳: 🙂
🧽: 🙂 (clean today)
🎫 Interrail: 🙂 (accepted)
TER 91358
18:33 Dijon Ville - Nuits-sous-Ravières 19:19
Distance: 89.4km
Average speed: 117km/h
3 stops:
Les Laumes-Alesia
Montbard
Nuits-sous-Ravieres
This train, mapped: umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/c…
The final big #CrossBorderRail tour - to the eastern borders of the EU, and missing intra-EU borders. In June-July 2025.uMap
Aaanndd SNCF’s loathing of Interrail hits new heights!
SNCF Connect hasn’t been able to sell Interrail / Eurail seat reservations for some while, but it worked at SNCF Grandes Lignes ticket machines
I’ve just checked at Dijon Ville: that has NOW BEEN REMOVED AS AN OPTION
I wanted to check I wasn’t at fault so I went to find a staff member
By luck they were helping a Spanish Interrailer at that moment and couldn’t get him the reservation and were likewise perplexed
I explained to all of them they’ll just have to use the third party Rail Europe website instead!
As far as I have experienced it as a tourist, french railway ticketing is a nightmare from top to bottom.
I ride trains because I like trains.
TER ticket machines and the sncf-connect website however put that to the test in many ways.
what??? seriously? 🤦
from my notes, taken a few weeks ago: > when the machine asks “do you have a reduction or pass?” select “other” then pick “interrail or eurail”
on the french screen (your pic) you should tap “autres réductions” for them to show. Did that really disappear?
Before trainwide door locking was a thing (because there was no cable connecting the carriages), there was a thing called "wagenautarke Türsicherung", which locks the carriage doors when it is moving faster than 5km/h.
I do not know the internal SNCF procedures but I would guess that this maybe is a historical remnant because there are still carriages with this technique (or the trainwide locking is broken).
There used to run some trains from there to the Papal gardens, but since the beginning of this year this is gone. Maybe forever. Deo volente (how ironic) it will return so us mortals can go on a pilgrimage for this international railway line.
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« Ce n'est pas Dieu qui a créé l'homme, mais l'homme qui a créé Dieu. » Voltaire
Même si on aurait ici plus besoin des chemins de fer que de Dieu...
In listened to Drop Site News' interview with Mahmoud Khalil (which was quite good) and this book came up.
Seems like a very interesting read, on how decentralized mass protests against authoritarian regimes tends to fail in recent decades.
The book is titled
If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution by Vincent Bevins
Interesting review of the book:
newrepublic.com/article/175314…
The demonstrations of the last decade were vast and explosive—and surprisingly ineffective.The New Republic
Invest the time to listen to these podcasts; then do your own research if you want to know what is going on because it isn't what is being reported. Per DJT: "We Have It All"
The Hidden Truth Behind the Epstein List - Who is on it? | Lt Col Riccardo Bosi
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Obama's Treason Exposed - The Movie We're Watching
Hosted by John Michael Chambers with retired SO Lt Col Bosi, Michael Jaco, Seal Team 6, Col Tom Lennox, Derek Johnson
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Nothing Can Stop What Is Coming | Ep. 991 The Daily Dose - RedPill Project, Josh Reid
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Will die BILD etwa mehr Sturmfluten wie die historische Hollandflut? Wie dich Axel Springer mit dem "Panikmache"-Narrativ in die Irre führt.
Hendrickson to headline wrestling event as Hulk Hogan's venture continues after his death
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Just looked up Iris W early photos. She was almost kinda cute as a young woman & def. looks like a female in earlier photos & her wedding pix.
Guess gaining weight and getting older has made her look more masculine. But she's a woman after all.
Zagreb: journée anarcha-queer de la foire du livre anarchiste au squat Postaja
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"Vrrrane, en collaboration avec le collectif de la Foire du livre anarchiste de Zagreb, organise au squat Postaja le 6 septembre 2025 la première journée de la foire du livre comme forum pour aborder des sujets spécifiquement anarcha-queer ! Un événement similaire a déjà eu lieu à Postaja en septembre
The Starmer regime's failure to defend the Handala along with the mistreatment of the Leonardo 3 in Scotland are both examples of a diseased doctrine of unquestioning U.K. support of Israel. By Craig Murray CraigMurray.org.Consortium News
TIPS FOR GETTING A CAKE TO RELEASE OUT OF A PAN
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Here's how to remove a stuck cake from its pan: Reheat the pan, loosen the edges of the cake with a spatula, then flip onto a rack for a mess-free release.Allison Arnold (Yahoo Life)
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http://vok.rep.kp/index.php/detail_com/comde/iee250708008/57/en The Jungphyong Greenhouse Farm, a large-scale vegetable greenhouse farm, has residential quarters for its employees and all the wonderful facilities for their living.Dermot Hudson (KFAUK.com)
Un bon panorama rapide...
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Trump says EU could face 35% tariffs if it fails to meet $600bn investment promises, threatens with pharma tariffs.
The EU has exposed itself as being spineless, and the Americans will now keep making increasingly draconian demands. This is why every nation with a shred of sovereignty stood firm in face of the threats.
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Ukrainian president says ‘President Trump’s determination can change a lot’ as leaders speak about Russia increasing severity of strikesJakub Krupa (The Guardian)
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AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive
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From Voice of Korea. http://vok.rep.kp/ind…/detail_com/comde/iee250702005/57/en There is a tableland called Unryong (Silvery Dragon) Hill in the Komdok area in the northern part of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.Dermot Hudson (KFAUK.com)
Genie 3: A new frontier for world models
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Today we are announcing Genie 3, a general purpose world model that can generate an unprecedented diversity of interactive environments. Given a text prompt, Genie 3 can generate dynamic worlds...Google DeepMind
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A decade-long infiltration campaign by the Chinese Communist Party has penetrated the Federal Reserve—coercing employees, stealing sensitive data, and compromising America’s financial core.Natalie Winters
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Tänään kävi kyllä kotimatkalla ihan käsittämätön juttu. Olin menossa lietsussa ratikkaan ja siellä makasi juopunut mies lattialla, hänet oli ohjattu kylkiasentoon. Häkeen oli soitettu ja lanssi tulossa. Oli oksennellut verta. Mun kanssa kyytiin tullut vanhempi nainen ilmotti olevansa ammatikseen hoitaja, että hän voi hoitaa tän asian. Kyseli perusteellisesti että pystytkö hengittään, nouseen ylös istuun, ottaan tangosta tukea. Maha oli niin kipeä ettei pystynyt kun hengittään ja puhuun.
Ihmiset ihan tosissaan huuteli sit sille ratikan ohjaajalle joka oli tän miehen vieressä, että heitetään ukko kyydistä pois et päästään lähteen. Yks ehdotti et tää on muutenki menos taysille tää ratikka ni jatketaan vaa matkaa. Onneks tää hoitaja piti sen miehen puolia, ei menny ku pari minuuttia ni lanssi oli paikalla. Paareilla hänet veivät ja joutuivat avustaan hänet siihen pedille. Siinä sit päiviteltiin ääneen tilanteen ohi mennessä ja ratikan kulkiessa että kyllä kaikilla ihmisillä on ihmisarvo ja kaikkia pitää auttaa. Totesin siihen et ihmisten suhtautuminen olisi ollut eri jos olisi oikeasti saanut jonkun sairaskohtauksen. On kyllä itsekästä porukkaa, ei voi muuta sanoo 😡
ABYAN, Aug. 04 (YPA) - The United Nations' International Organization for Migration announced that at least 68 African migrants drowned, while 74 others are still missing, after the boat they were traveling on sank off the coast of Abyan Governorateذكرى (Yemen Press Agency)
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"He sows division in our communities, and like last summer race riots, it puts the lives of people seeking sanctuary in danger"Bill Curtis (The London Economic)
House committee issues subpoenas for Epstein files, depositions with Clintons and other officials
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Rwanda accepts up to 250 deportees from the US under Trump's third-country plan
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Nebraska congressman Flood gets an earful over Trump's tax cut law in raucous town hall
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The spirit of Biden lives on at the White House
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Build Your Own Lisp
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