Welcome to the #LongestTrainEU #CrossBorderRail record breaking thread!
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@jon And a note to random reader: Yes, that is a quite slow average speed. But this is a night train. It is in no hurry. Also, car carrier wagons are attached in Rovaniemi, and ample time is allocated for that.
@tml Right, totally. They do not try to rush those shunting manoeuvres!
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Off on time from Kemijärvi, after having presented a small plaque to the city administration.
And I have a timer running the whole trip as well - from the moment the door closed at Kemijärvi to the moment it opens in Lagos!
@jon Bon voyage!
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@tml Right, totally. They do not try to rush those shunting manoeuvres!
@jon At least in the Helsinki end apparently a single person handles it all: Drives the remote controlled locomotive and performs the actual coupling. Must have required some long and tedious negotiations (in a sauna, haha?) with the unions for this to be acceptable…
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Safe travels!
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Off on time from Kemijärvi, after having presented a small plaque to the city administration.
And I have a timer running the whole trip as well - from the moment the door closed at Kemijärvi to the moment it opens in Lagos!
@jon Safe travels!
We’re all out here, rooting (routing?) for you.
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Here's the whole playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQfeggpU3vqAHmmm 🤨
The live tracking thinks I have barely left Rovaniemi
But I most definitely have, and am two thirds of the way to Kemi
I simply cannot get any decent GPS signal here, even between carriages
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Welcome to the #LongestTrainEU #CrossBorderRail record breaking thread!
This train journey starts in Kemijärvi
and ends in Lagos 
18 trains, 100 hours 9 minutes, 4008km as the crow flies, 6281 route-km
The background to this project is here:
https://longestjourney.crossborderrail.eu/And the live tracking throughout is here:
https://longestjourneylive.crossborderrail.eu/Have a good trip!
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Hmmm 🤨
The live tracking thinks I have barely left Rovaniemi
But I most definitely have, and am two thirds of the way to Kemi
I simply cannot get any decent GPS signal here, even between carriages
@jon Maybe next time you could use live data from operators retrieving your train numbers to more reliably update the pin across your ..checks notes.. 7 countries travelled
(Please don’t kill me I promise I won’t suggest this again.)
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Hmmm 🤨
The live tracking thinks I have barely left Rovaniemi
But I most definitely have, and am two thirds of the way to Kemi
I simply cannot get any decent GPS signal here, even between carriages
@jon I think you've derailed, Jon.
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Hmmm 🤨
The live tracking thinks I have barely left Rovaniemi
But I most definitely have, and am two thirds of the way to Kemi
I simply cannot get any decent GPS signal here, even between carriages
Can some Finn please explain this road sign seen in Kemijärvi earlier?
Is it "you will only hit elk on the roads in half of Finland"? Is there some elk wall across the middle of the country?
EDIT: OK, it's a reindeer herding area
But I have questions!
The antlers on that sign are wrong.
And given I was a LONG way into the area, why do I need the map?
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@jon Maybe next time you could use live data from operators retrieving your train numbers to more reliably update the pin across your ..checks notes.. 7 countries travelled
(Please don’t kill me I promise I won’t suggest this again.)
@stefanlindbohm Ha. And how hard is it going to be to code that?
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@jon I think you've derailed, Jon.
@thisislieven See the later posts! Somehow GPS is just not working.
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Can some Finn please explain this road sign seen in Kemijärvi earlier?
Is it "you will only hit elk on the roads in half of Finland"? Is there some elk wall across the middle of the country?
EDIT: OK, it's a reindeer herding area
But I have questions!
The antlers on that sign are wrong.
And given I was a LONG way into the area, why do I need the map?
Reindeer herding area.
Of course the wikipedia article is only in Finnish: https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poronhoitoalue.
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Can some Finn please explain this road sign seen in Kemijärvi earlier?
Is it "you will only hit elk on the roads in half of Finland"? Is there some elk wall across the middle of the country?
EDIT: OK, it's a reindeer herding area
But I have questions!
The antlers on that sign are wrong.
And given I was a LONG way into the area, why do I need the map?
@jon I think this marks the southern boundary of the area where reindeer flocks are tended: https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poronhoitoalue
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Can some Finn please explain this road sign seen in Kemijärvi earlier?
Is it "you will only hit elk on the roads in half of Finland"? Is there some elk wall across the middle of the country?
EDIT: OK, it's a reindeer herding area
But I have questions!
The antlers on that sign are wrong.
And given I was a LONG way into the area, why do I need the map?
@jon This is about reindeer. They roam freely in the marked area. Elk you find mostly in the south.
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@stefanlindbohm Ha. And how hard is it going to be to code that?
@jon I actually don’t think it’s currently possible
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Can some Finn please explain this road sign seen in Kemijärvi earlier?
Is it "you will only hit elk on the roads in half of Finland"? Is there some elk wall across the middle of the country?
EDIT: OK, it's a reindeer herding area
But I have questions!
The antlers on that sign are wrong.
And given I was a LONG way into the area, why do I need the map?
@jon It shows where reindeers are herded. I guess the regulations related to collision with a reindeer are different in that area or something? And maybe means ”we won’t bother putting up separate warning signs all over the place, you just have to be aware”
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@thisislieven See the later posts! Somehow GPS is just not working.
@jon Do you have access to Galileo? Maybe that works - and is our own European system to boot!
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Reindeer herding area.
Of course the wikipedia article is only in Finnish: https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poronhoitoalue.
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@jon I think this marks the southern boundary of the area where reindeer flocks are tended: https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poronhoitoalue
@davidjamesweir @jon 36% of Finland’s territory! (Much less of its public roads, of course.)
