Notices by Jon Worth (jon@gruene.social)

@nafmo I know, so I am taking a bus to Magnor and cycling across the border 🙂 And I need to take a Flixbus to Sweden on Sunday to get around the mess. I think it's all connected to the re-building of Karlstad station.

@SaareMartha No, this is all (badly) pre planned. And I have spent enough time in Sweden to know the importance of Midsommar. The problem here is they closed the Oslo-Göteborg AND Oslo-Karlstad(-Stockholm) on the same weekend 🤷♂️ @nafmo

#CrossBorderRail Finale Train 46 of 155
406
23:17 Trondheim - Oslo S 06:50
SJ Nord

Train type: ADTranz El 18 locomotive, 8 carriages (Inc 3 sleeping cars)
⚡️ (15kV ac)
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (on board lift)
🛜: ⛔️ (installed but broken)
🍽️: ✅
🧳: 🙂
🧽: 🙂

🎫 Interrail: 😐 (needs compulsory reservation, costs €)

406
23:17 Trondheim - Oslo S 06:50

Distance: 548.7km
Average speed: 73km/h

19 stops:
Heimdal
Stoeren
Berkaak
Oppdal
Kongsvoll
Hjerkinn
Dombaas
Otta
Vinstra
Ringebu
Kvitfjell
Hunderfossen
Lillehammer
Moelv
Brumunddal
Hamar
Oslo Lufthavn Gardermoen
Lillestroem
Oslo S

This train, mapped: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2025-finale_1163738#7/61.672/8.943

Aaaannndd some #CrossBorderRail news from the Slovenia-Croatia border

Instead of a daily summertime train Pula 🇭🇷 - Divača 🇸🇮, they're now offering... 🥁 Zagreb 🇭🇷 - Ljubljana 🇸🇮 - Divača 🇸🇮 - Pula 🇭🇷...

BUT

ONLY ONCE A ‼️ WEEK ‼️ in each direction!

Which renders it pretty much un-useable https://potniski.sz.si/direktni-vlak-zagreb-ljubljana-pula/

EDIT: no, there is to be a “border shuttle” Divača-Buzet that’s to be daily. This isn’t as quite as bad as I’d feared!

And this comes after the Villa Opicina 🇮🇹 - Pivka 🇸🇮 - Rijeka 🇭🇷 #CrossBorderRail was ditched for this year https://crossborderrail.trainsforeurope.eu/no-villa-opicina-divaca-pivka-rijeka-trains-in-2025-no-re-launch-date-known/

What a total cock up

And Friday there are events in Oslo but there’ll be no #CrossBorderRail thread

Saturday morning I’m going to the Charlottenberg 🇸🇪 - Magnor 🇳🇴 border, so there will be a thread in the morning

And then the extreme trips start again Sunday 😀

As my train heads steadily towards Oslo, final call for the two #CrossBorderRail events there tomorrow, 20 June!

11:00-12:00 - presentation of my work at an event at Fridtjof Nansen Institute (Room: Spisestuen), Fridtjof Nansens vei 17A, 1366 Lysaker

15:00 until at least 20:00 - informal gathering organised by the Togferie activists at Prindsen Hage, Chr. Krohgs gate 15, 0186 Oslo

Details 👇
https://crossborderrail.trainsforeurope.eu/projects/crossborderrail-finale-summer-2025/crossborderrail-finale-2025-events/

My host at FNI tomorrow - Sid Sareen - has written about the need for more rail investment in Norway here:
https://www.altinget.no/artikkel/overhaling-av-toginfrastrukturen-i-norge-er-et-energispoersmaal

And my slides for tomorrow's event at FNI in Oslo are here:
https://bit.ly/CrossBorderRailFNI

And I will try to live stream it as well, internet at the venue permitting! 11:00-12:00 tomorrow

Ah great

A month ago I pitched the idea to present #CrossBorderRail at a big rail event and was told no, only industry speakers. I even wrote a blog post about it https://jonworth.eu/railway-work-what-i-am-doing-has-some-ethical-purpose-but-is-anyone-listening/

And now an activist I know has approached me to ask if he can use my materials from the #CrossBorderRail project… because he’s been asked to give a presentation at *the event that turned me down*

WTF?

(It’s not the activist’s fault, he wasn’t to know)

This #CrossBorderRail has gone from Hel 🇵🇱 to Hell 🇳🇴

Here’s today’s #CrossBorderRail summary video thanks to cameraman @sebwilken in Trondheim! https://peertube.netzbegruenung.de/w/b4fhBSemgRgjJYm7aLEMsT

R 472
13:16 Fauske - Trondheim 22:13

Distance: 670.4km
Average speed: 75km/h

21 stops:
Rognan
Roekland
Loensdal
Mo i Rana
Bjerka
Drevvatn
Mosjoeen
Trofors
Majvatn
Namsskogan
Lassemoen
Harran
Grong
Snaasa
Joerstad
Steinkjer
Verdal
Levanger
Stjoerdal
Vaernes (Trondheim Lufthavn)
Trondheim S

This train, mapped: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2025-finale_1163738#7/65.409/12.943

Welcome to today's thread - 2025 #CrossBorderRail Finale Day 11 - 19 June - Narvik - Fauske - Trondheim, onto night train

Today's new borders:
None

Borders map, inc. borders re-crossed:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-all-the-borders_935041#8/68.467/18.344

Today's trains on the routes map:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2025-finale_1163738#7/67.176/19.578

It's time to head south again, but this time on the Norwegian side - but between Narvik and Bodø or Fauske there is no train. So it's onto two buses first of all and then - if there are enough locomotives running! - a train south via Trondheim to Oslo. Testing the Norwegian airline style "beds".

Here's today's #CrossBorderRail music track

Main Theme Song - Polar Express
Alan Silvestri

Thanks @trantion for this suggestion - geographically appropriate!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdZvwzU7HoA

Here’s today’s intro video

https://peertube.netzbegruenung.de/w/7UE9WfZLi7mRvW9EfdTsyk

Meanwhile no company wants to run the night trains to northern Sweden in 2026

Link via @acb

https://jarnvagar.nu/ingen-vill-kora-nattag-till-norrland/

07:05 Narvik - Storjord 09:08
Nordland fylkeskommune

Bus type: Scania Higer Touring, 3 axle
⛽️
🚲: ❓(not sure if officially supported but hold is huge)
🦽: ✅
🛜: ⛔️
🍽️: ⛔️
🧳: 🙂
🧽: 🙂

#CrossBorderRail Finale Bus 8 of 21

09:17 Storjord - Fauske 12:01
(Guaranteed connection in Storjord)
Nordland fylkeskommune

Bus type: Scania Higer Touring, 3 axle
⛽️
🚲: ❓(not sure if officially supported but hold is huge)
🦽: ✅ (lift on board)
🛜: ⛔️
🍽️: ⛔️
🧳: 🙂
🧽: 🙂