Fun quirk of UK rail industry slow-motion nationalisation: Lumo, owned by First, is starting an open access service on the WCML where it will compete with Avanti, owned by First https://www.railmagazine.com/news/lumo-gears-up-for-wcml-debut-whilst-eyeing-further-opportunity (£)

love a good demographic surface plot to play with but what's this nonsense about only being allowed to view 15 a minute i should be allowed 30Hz at least https://demoscapes.org/

This week's newsletter is out https://jonworth.eu/screaming-down-the-tracks/ In this edition: Rant: Screaming down the tracks Event: Passenger Package Webinar - 28 May Bullshit Meter: Baku - Tbilisi train to restart Good week: Turku will get its tram Also […] [Original post on gruene.social]

this is so cool https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/worldmap/ makes me want to print out some of my population maps

And now a little sub-thread about the bicycle garage at Utrecht's Central Station. One cannot write about cycling & rails in the Netherlands without mentioning it! The main garage open in 2019 has 12500 parking spots, making it the largest in the world! See the official description on the […]

according to Mozilla, On Voie Tous has had _zero_ downloads since April is there anything obviously wrong with the page? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/on-voie-tous/ it's not necessarily something i want to get ultra popular because serving the predictions could become annoying […]

given the general, shall we say, unreliability of crt.sh, I've been considering doing our own CT monitor at the @mpiinf so, dearest security research community, what would you like to see in a CT monitor? pls boost!

Typical Dutch brick streets, and bricks ready to install on a construction site. #urbanism #netherlands

RE: https://gruene.social/@jon/116606431699138560 New CER amendment to European Commission proposal on regulation of ticket sellers just dropped: "to ensure a level playing field between state operators and the evil US big tech companies, search results for destinations must be ordered […]

You better hope you're not trying to book on SNCF Connect from France to any of the German towns or cities called Müllheim 😳

Customer service, SNCF at Bercy It’s 08:47 on a Tuesday and the SNCF ticket office isn’t open SNCF runs trains to Centre Val de Loire. But the SNCF ticket office can’t sell you those tickets Oh and there’s a lunch break too

Maybe you'll be my new boss? Come work for #shure doing #fpga #modem development in our #wireless lab. I've been here 20 years. It's not bad. Ask me anything. https://careersus-shure.icims.com/jobs/4766/engineer-staff-managing%2c-fpga/job?mode=view Put down my name and I'll get a referral […]

First version of PebbleConduct! A Pebble app showing my train data on my wrist ready to depart on time! Currently just displaying my last shift, coupled from the employee portal! (Yes there will be an open data based fan version) Feels so nice to revive this […] [Original post on blahaj.social]

RE: https://mapstodon.space/@WorldPopProject/116521533172882521 📅 This survey closes on 30 May. 🔗 If you haven't done so already please follow the link https://southampton.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_820s1m3SBUFEEqq and let us know what you think. 💭

I think there’s nothing that demonstrates the decay of French rail quite like Paris Bercy. Somehow it’ll be used to illustrate this week’s newsletter.

Nationalisation of UK rail update: central government cuts intercity service between London and the northwest by 15% https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c74r1xxexveo

Today we add the full range of Deutsche Bahn tickets, incl. all Sparpreis offers, to Railfinder Best of all, we built some smarts to automatically pick the best combination of tickets were multiple are available. For example, we show you Gothenburg - Milan on just one ticket, in just one search ⤵️

Good morning #trainbubble #BahnBubble 👋 This week I'll be in the Netherlands, and planning to do a bit of scouting about the #cyclingonrails situation in the area (without bicycle but with the photo equipment 📸). Anything I should be aware of? Any recommendations? Benelux is one of the […]

Nominations are now open for the Lorena Abad Crespo Award for Innovation in Spatial Data Science! 🎉 Know someone doing outstanding work in spatial data science, GIS, or geocomputation? Nominate them here: https://spatial-data-science.github.io/award.html […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

That state owned railways trade body CER would not like the #passengerpackage was to be expected That they'd be quite so incoherently critical was interesting and worrying too Time for a course correction, as I explain here 👇 […]

@jon @bovine3dom @stefanlindbohm I also liked the latest report from Réseau Action Climat on cross-border ticket booking from France: https://reseauactionclimat.org/voyager-en-train-vers-leurope-un-cauchemar-pour-les-passagers-en-correspondance/ As all French things it's very France-centric and […]

BE/DE/NL/CZ/...: here is a real time application to follow your train path as measured by us up to a the second France: here is a piece of paper with your path and look out of the window to see of you are punctual

I meant to post this on Sunday when it happened but I got distracted. Major respect to Zlatka at Slovenske železnice #SŽ for responding to an email about #train #travel#SŽat 21:08 on a Sunday night. Screenshots of timetables, red highlighter markings, fare information and detailed how-tos. Above […]

LOL 😂 CER is throwing its toys out of the pram about the #passengerpackage Later on I will take this one apart, piece by piece It's fantastically awful, amusingly so […]

Earlier today I explained how the European Commission's proposals on rail ticketing are both radical and, in their current form, unworkable Now I have started to work out what European Parliament and Council would have to do to make things more workable from here #passengerpackage […]

I had most of the #passengerpackage leaked to me yesterday afternoon, and that allowed me to prepare my response, getting it out in a timely fashion: https://jonworth.eu/how-the-gospel-the-political-guidelines-left-the-european-commission-with-a-ticketing-proposal-both-radical-and-unworkable/ I […]

One implementation detail that directly affects us as a booking portal is that the MDMS directive proposal would mandate exactly which filters and sorting options we should and can have. This would effectively prohibit Railfinder’s ”Best” sorting which takes overall comfort, not time or speed […]

This is not going to work. #passengerpackage There is a SINGLE TRANSACTION obligation to get rights - see https://transport.ec.europa.eu/document/download/fc019827-59c9-400f-a530-4d7d21957a7d_en?filename=COM_2026_233_Proposal_on_the_protection_of_passengers_with_single_tickets.pdf BUT that […]

Right now there is a briefing going on for journalists about what will be in tomorrow's EU ticketing #passengerpackage, but the person who has written most about this - me - is not allowed to listen as I am not an accredited media 🎉 I am open to receiving leaks! 😀

> I am efficient with budget, people and everyone’s time (19 minute read) https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/ more seriously i think closing lots of smaller country "offices" is symptomatic of one of the big failures of the EU: it should be as easy to employ someone on the other side […]

Hello les Niçois ! Pour ma prochaine vidéo sur tunnel rue du Congrès , j’aurais besoin de quelques illustrations, ça rajouterait pas mal à l’immersion ! Je suis disponible en DM, et n’hésitez pas à me dire directement comment vous souhaitez être crédités !

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@nathandyer/116553199114385177 i published my first open source package when i was about 15 it was/is a script for a multiplayer mod for a game with an 18 rating and as far as i know still has a few hundred users trust humans to make good choices and assess their own […]

SBB, SNCF and Eurostar have signed something about trying to run direct trains Switzerland - UK https://news.sbb.ch/de/019e081f-eebb-78a6-834a-e1e1048c5959/absichtserklaerung-fuer-direktverbindung-schweizlondon-unterzeichnet #crosschannelrail I suppose this means Eurostar will then not stand in […]

@stefanlindbohm @bovine3dom Very confusing, I've added some info here https://trainfo.eu/land/sverige/interrail-in-sweden/

another lazy #bahnbubble question for you all: has anyone had success changing the destination of a blue Eurostar interrail passholder supplement? if it is possible, presumably one needs to contact customer support because their web form only lets me change the date

is it really true that the seated carriages on nightjets between Amsterdam and Zurich reservation optional? and if i were to want a reservation where would i best get one? ÖBB don't seem to offer them (i am aware that seats are worse than beds. but there are no beds available) 1/2 #bahnbubble

This week’s newsletter is out https://jonworth.eu/eu-rail-ticketing-reform-proposal-is-out-next-week-this-is-what-to-look-out-for/ Analysis: EU rail ticketing reform proposal is out next week: what to look out for Bullshit Meter, retrospective: Berlin-Warszawa with Flixtrain Good week […]

RE: https://datasci.social/@nerdsitu/116535048648476763 Very happy this paper is published! Great+deep work led by Clément Sebastiao. We systematically study strategies to grow a transport network step by step - motivated by #bicycle networks which need to be functional as soon as possible […]

This is brilliant. A lovely small waiting room at Rannoch station with various kinds of food on offer. So-called honesty box principle, you pay by yourself, using a contactless payment machine.

hey @wrzlbrnft i remember you saying somewhere that you used GTFS to help make your TGV Kurzbuchs but I can't remember if you ever said what tool you used other than https://bsky.app/profile/wrzlbrnft.bsky.social/post/3mbpgbv2odc2u have you ever written up your process? @moof was hoping to do […]

@wnd you popped up in my bluesky feed https://bsky.app/profile/nilo.bsky.social/post/3mla5u5zt722q (requires login) people want updated maps :(

Excellent piece on French regional trains from Simon Calder > I assumed my search had gone awry when it served up the first train of the day from Avranches to Granville at two minutes to noon. On what is a short route with surely a fair amount of demand, that seemed nonsensical [...] > [...] I […]

I have updated my article on the longest rail trip in the EU: https://jonworth.eu/the-longest-train-journey-in-the-eu/ It now adds a third variant: the most route-km in the EU where there is no shorter route available I *think* this in the end is Savonlinna 🇫🇮 - Vila Real de Santo António 🇵🇹 […]

Oooh. There's been minor UI deshittification of the hateful #SNCF Connect experience and departure and arrival stations are in the right order. With dates and everything. So while the experience of booking a train is still like smacking yourself in the face with a […] [Original post on rail.chat]

@jon Their report on high-speed rail infra for reference: https://www.eca.europa.eu/en/publications?did=46398

I have a friend who is very fond of this mindmelting example of wayfinding at West Ham station. To the extent that she takes family and friends there to take selfies. So come on the internet, what other examples of mad signage are there out there?

Thank you to the SNCF for reminding me that there's no point being a perfectionist when this is the quality of the source data

5:30am on a French train. Announcements every 2 minutes about labelling your luggage and that the doors that are closing are closing, and that once they're closed you shouldn't exit the train through them. I think anyone who specifies these announcements should also be subjected to them in […]

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