Tornio - Haparanda might finally open after 10 August 🎉 https://yle.fi/a/74-20226999

But that's AFTER the special summertime weekend trains on Kemijärvi - Kemi stop, adding 8 hours to the trip time of the longest train ride in the EU 😭 https://jonworth.eu/the-longest-train-journey-in-the-eu/

#CrossBorderRail

Uusi arvio aikataulusta: junamatkustus Suomen ja Ruotsin välillä voisi alkaa elokuussa

Traficomin ja VR:n välinen sopimus on vielä allekirjoittamatta. Myös rajan ylitykseen liittyviä yksityiskohtia täytyy vielä selvittää.

RE: https://gruene.social/@jon/116606431699138560

All of this proves a point I have made many times over the years: a good rail journey STARTS WITH A GOOD ROUTE

Once you have the route, work out how to sell it

SNCF Connect lacks the basic building blocks for planning, and only serves up limited options it can sell

So even though it CAN sell to Germany again, DO NOT USE IT, because it's STILL a shit show

#CrossBorderRail

You'd think that two reasonably well run countries - Sweden 🇸🇪 and Finland 🇫🇮 - could manage to fix a #CrossBorderRail line in a timely fashion

But no they can't

Wherever I go these sorts of sagas seem universal

A rant about Haparanda 🇸🇪 - Tornio 🇫🇮, and some nice photos:
https://jonworth.eu/cross-border-railway-problems-are-annoyingly-universal/

Cross-border railway problems are annoyingly universal

At the time of writing, my #CrossBorderRail project has taken me to 419 international railway lines since 13 June 2022.One of the very first borders I went to - on 19 June 2022 - was Haparanda 🇸🇪 - Tornio 🇫🇮 (OpenRailwayMap) at the very northern end of the Baltic Sea.Little

And going via Besançon-Viotte - La Chaux-de-Fonds and a bit of Chemins de Fer du Jura 🎉 #CrossBorderRail

So I have a spare Interrail day to use before 10th June

That means #CrossBorderRail day trip Train pour Bonfol! 🇨🇭🇫🇷

Border:
Bonfol 🇨🇭 - Pfetterhouse 🇫🇷

Close enough to link to the classic song, right? 😂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2ueOo1jE2w

Train pour Bandol

It’s now mid May. Are we going to still see Tornio - Haparanda #CrossBorderRail opening this summer still? 🤔 https://www.railwaygazette.com/railtech-archive/2026/04/16/finland-says-long-delayed-cross-border-rail-link-to-sweden-set-for-summer-launch/

Time for what ought to be a simple bit of #CrossBorderRail - Bruxelles to Paris

What?

Berlin - Oslo direct in a Talgo? 🤔

https://www.deutschebahn.com/de/presse/pressestart_zentrales_uebersicht/Schiene-verbindet-Europa-neue-Direktverbindung-von-Berlin-ueber-Kopenhagen-nach-Oslo-kommt-13868474

These railways with ideas for new connections with these trains before anyone knows if they run properly…

#CrossBorderRail link via @cycling_on_rails

Schiene verbindet Europa: neue Direktverbindung von Berlin über Kopenhagen nach Oslo kommt

Meanwhile on LinkedIn 😆 #CrossBorderRail

Made it. Phew 🥵 #CrossBorderRail