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   Oliver Blanthorn (bovine3dom@masto.ai)'s status on Thursday, 24-Jul-2025 14:49:27 JST Oliver Blanthorn

   • Jon Worth

   Times journalist falls through the cracks in the AJC

   > Here is where cross-border travel is less fun — despite its staff having caused the delay [the Italian train was hauled by an SNCF locomotive], SNCF wouldn’t reroute me because this was an Italian train. The upshot: about £750 on new trains, a hotel and a 6am taxi to make my ferry.

   Looks like she got to the "not at all clear what happens here" part of @jon 's flowchart https://jonworth.eu/railpassengerrights/

   https://www.thetimes.com/article/9951c787-b8ba-4258-bef9-8372859982d4

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 24-Jul-2025 14:50:04 JST Rich Felker

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     • Jon Worth
     • The Man in Seat 61

     @bovine3dom @jon @seatsixtyone And then there's US: trains cost 2-5x as much as flying, min $250.

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     Oliver Blanthorn (bovine3dom@masto.ai)'s status on Thursday, 24-Jul-2025 14:50:05 JST Oliver Blanthorn

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     • The Man in Seat 61

     @jon incidentally i spotted yesterday that @seatsixtyone has this map of interrail reservation requirements which doubles up handily as a guide to which railways really would rather that you weren't there, interrail or not

     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: likes this.
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     Oliver Blanthorn (bovine3dom@masto.ai)'s status on Thursday, 24-Jul-2025 14:50:07 JST Oliver Blanthorn

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     • Jon Worth

     @jon hah just saw that you tooted about this on bluesky

     shame you couldn't get "AJC my arse" in as a quote to the article

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     Jon Worth (jon@gruene.social)'s status on Thursday, 24-Jul-2025 14:50:07 JST Jon Worth

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     @bovine3dom well it’s Italy and France. Of course it’s not gonna work.