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Sep 19

I really do wonder how much (little?) we’re learned from COVID

I declined to attend a 2 hour meeting Thursday this week, as getting there would involve an 8 hour trip each way, and because I *wrongly* assumed video participation would be possible

But no, now presence only 🤯

Really, I get why we’re all tired of Zoom

I get why meeting in person can make sense

But hell, we learned how digital meetings can work as a second-best alternative. And I really don’t want to go back to as much travel for work purposes as I used to do…

(And also FWIW the room where the meeting will take place has equipment in it already to allow the meeting to be hybrid. But a decision has been taken to oblige attendance in person instead. Absence of tech in meeting rooms might sometimes still just be an OK excuse)

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Sep 17

@anthonyzach

Earlier this week I investigated the Givet 🇫🇷 - Dinant 🇧🇪 #CrossBorderRail missing link

This old route along the Meuse is a wonderful area, and it’d be excellent if trains could run here once more

But why is it so hard my old friend @anthonyzach asked me? The 🧵 answers this!

First, where is this line? These maps show the area.

Breaking it down in rail terms there are 3 sections:
Charleville-Mezieres - Givet (⚫️ on map - 63km, active double track, diesel)
Givet - Anseremme (gap on map - 22km, not active, was single track, diesel)
Anseremme - Dinant (🔵 on map - 2km, active double track, electrified)

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Sep 14

twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Welcome to #CrossBorderRail the autumn trips! This thread covers all the journeys between mid September and the end of October 2022 twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Bit of a different start this morning!

Here’s the route map from today until Sunday

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Sep 12

OK, so I am going to use the channel I know - Twitter - to help me address something I’ve no idea about, namely whether I should write a book

This morning I was asked, for at least the 10th time, would I write a book about #CrossBorderRail

The answer was “maybe” - but how?

🧵

First of all: what do I know?

After having crossed 95 borders, travelled 30000km by train, having taken thousands of photos and hundreds of videos I have more than enough material. And I feel like I have not even begun to address many of the issues I discovered

What do I not know?

Should I write a book? If people are suggesting it, perhaps I should. But maybe they are more confident in this than I am?

Were I to write a book, how am I possibly going to finance the time such a massive undertaking would require? Who publishes this?

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Sep 9

I want to set aside the problems I have with the monarchy for the moment, and examine something else that’s nagging at me regarding the death of the queen - the extent to which many people have a strong emotional reaction to her death.

This is not in any way to deny this reaction exists - it most definitely does.

It is also not to downplay the sorrow of the moment - for that is definitely the case, as the death of any human is sad.

I am instead fascinated by the strength of emotion people manage to express for someone they have never met and did not know and - in comparison to the deaths of someone like Gorbachev or Thatcher - someone who probably had comparatively marginal direct impact on their lives.

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Jon Worth

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Sep 4

@mrak

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So it’s Jon vs. Croatian Railways HŽPP

As @mrak @totalcroatia1 Silvana Mendusic & Dora Koretić know… this tends to not end well

A quick thread…

I want to go from Split to Rijeka on 4th October

That’s Croatia’s 2nd city to its 3rd city

There’s a railway line - shown in orange

So it ought to work..? Via Ogulin (roughly)

Here’s a zoom in on the bit around Ogulin

If there is no direct train, changing in Ostarije ought to work, or possibly Ogulin, or both

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