Welcome to the #LongestTrainEU #CrossBorderRail record breaking thread!

[jon@gruene.social]

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/

[cdamian@rls.social]

@jon
An average of 63 km/h doesn't sound too bad.

[jon@gruene.social]

#CrossBorderRail #LongestTrainEU Record Attempt Train 1 of 18
274
19:00 Kemijärvi - Kemi 22:27
VR

Train type: SLM, ABB Sr2 Lok 2000, 9 double deck sleeping cars, 2 double deck carriages, 1 single deck restaurant, 2 car wagons
️ (25kV ac)
:
🦽: (ramp if station not step free)
🛜:
️:
🧳:
🧽: (spotless inside, windows a little grimy)
Interrail: (accepted)

[jon@gruene.social]

274
19:00 Kemijärvi - Kemi 22:27

Distance: 198km (11th of 18)
Avg speed: 57km/h (16th of 18)

3 stops:
Misi
Rovaniemi
Kemi

mapped: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/eu-longest-train-journey_1427743#9/66.235202/25.965020

#CrossBorderRail #LongestTrainEU

[toxy@mastodon.acc.sunet.se]

@jon Good luck Jon! I’ll be watching. I apologise in advance from Sweden. Make a blood sacrifice to SJ when you can.

[eq@mas.to]

@toxy @jon Good luck and yes, apologies for the Swedish railway is probably in place. I'll be waving when you pass Umeå

[samcage@rail.chat]

@jon Sod's law dictates that when you pass through Copenhagen, I'll be in France. We will eventually coincide! And good luck - great project.

[jon@gruene.social]

@eq @toxy I have enough buffers planned in for the Swedish legs. I think

[jon@gruene.social]

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!

[adipoeserpursch@troet.cafe]

@jon Good luck!

[giggls@karlsruhe-social.de]

@jon Ah is this EEST? Thus 18:00 CET?

[eq@mas.to]

@jon I was sitting for 6 hours at a station but that was 10 years ago. My train neighbour was in a 12 hour stop a couple of months earlier. But I'm sure the railroads are much better now!

[jon@gruene.social]

@giggls Indeed. Start is 19:00 EEST.

[ilmari@social.treehouse.systems]

@jon Good luck! I just noticed that the live map resets the zoom every time the location updates, which is quite annoying.

[jon@gruene.social]

@ilmari Even if you have auto zoom off? (click the magnifying glass icon to turn it off)

[pikka@nerdculture.de]

@jon Viel Glück und gute Reise!

[gregoa_@chaos.social]

@ilmari looks like you can disable "auto zoom" in hamburger menu -> options. or with the button on the right near the bottom.
@jon

[ilmari@social.treehouse.systems]

@jon ah, that works. I didn't think to dig into two levels of mystery meat navigation.

[jon@gruene.social]

@ilmari it’s not a perfect system I admit. But it’s the best I could cobble together.

[rollotreadway@beige.party]

@jon Good luck! Hope none of the trains fail too badly.