Aug 10, 2026, 7:08 AMI am announcing all this today as this morning
Haparanda 🇸🇪 - Tornio 🇫🇮
finally re-opened, connecting Finland to the EU passenger rail network again
The last passenger trains ran here in 1988, before either Sweden or Finland joined the EU
Yle about the launch: https://yle.fi/a/74-20240125
Aug 10, 2026, 7:08 AMThere are loads of ways you can participate or help out - including meeting me en route, organising events, joining me for a leg of the trip, or making a small financial contribution - all the details on the project website!
Aug 10, 2026, 7:26 AMP.S. As the mansplaining "wouldn't Narvik be further, geodesic" (no, it wouldn't, trust me I checked) and "wouldn't southern Finland to Portugal be more route km?" (yes it would, but there are reasons why that is a complete pain to calculate and I am not doing that) sorts of replies are coming already, then have a read of this:
https://jonworth.eu/the-longest-train-journey-in-the-eu/#the-third-option-but-southern-finland-to-portugal-would-have-more-route-km
Aug 10, 2026, 8:23 AM@jon
The version where it's the Longest Train Journey but the goal is "only" to not ride on the same tracks twice, that would be the extreme version of maxing route km.
And that would be looong. And a true horror to try to calculate. Especially since one'd have to find actual train services for it all, not just look at a track map.
(more appropriate for e.g. the tram network in a city
Aug 10, 2026, 8:33 AM@Gurre And it potentially changes too often as well. It is simply too much of a pain to try to do it!
The tip link doesn't work... I just get the following message:
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Aug 10, 2026, 7:48 AM@HunterAnton I think a Ghost update broke it. I have now corrected it! https://jonworth.eu/#/portal/support