Just had a survey from EU Commission - #Pods4Rail.
They seem serious.
“A railway-based intermodal pod system, autonomously operating, electrically driven homologated transport units designed for people or goods”
pods4rail.eu
But one for @jonworth.eu #BullshitMeter?!
Also at one level, #BullshitMeter is just lightly poking fun at people
But at another level it's really depressing
How supposedly serious people can - with a straight face! - put out this abject rubbish, and even put some budget behind it
And each edition of the newsletter is going to have a #BullshitMeter in it
Here are all the previous Bullshit Meter posts:
jonworth.eu/tag/bullshit...
Send me your WORST rail stories, over-promises, hype and I will assess whether it is 🐂💩 or not!
And each edition of the newsletter is going to have a #BullshitMeter in it
Here are all the previous Bullshit Meter posts:
https://jonworth.eu/tag/bullshit-meter/
Send me your WORST rail stories, over-promises, hype and I will assess whether it is 🐂💩 or not!
Introducing…. IronLev.
Magnetic levitation on existing tracks.
Got to be on the #BullshitMeter
www.ironlev.com
With my new newsletter launching tomorrow, I am firing up the #BullshitMeter again
Calling out the silliest ideas that crop up rail news
And so I am re-organising all my old Bullshit Meter posts
The 15 oldest, all from January 2025, are online here:
jonworth.eu/tag/bullshit...
Many more to come!
With my new newsletter launching tomorrow, I am firing up the #BullshitMeter again
Calling out the silliest ideas that crop up in the railway news
And so I am re-organising all my old Bullshit Meter posts
The 15 oldest, all from January 2025, are online here […]
Damn!
Trump just broke another #BullshitMeter
Trump is a Pathological Liar:
He is literally incapable of telling the truth
www.newportinstitute.com/resources/co...
Damn!
Trump just broke another #BullshitMeter
Trump is a Pathological Liar:
He is literally incapable of telling the truth
www.newportinstitute.com/resources/co...
Damn!
Trump just broke another #BullshitMeter
Trump is a Pathological Liar:
He is literally incapable of telling the truth
www.newportinstitute.com/resources/co...
Jon Worth's Rail Story Bullshit Meter 170km fixed link (tunnels, bridges) between Turku *= & Stockholm = to be built Complete Bullshit Bullshit Meter Not Bullshit VERDICT Bullshit There is supposed to be a study on it by 2028, but it will conclude it's not viable. Too far, too complex, and not enough people live either side anyway. It makes the Tallinn-Helsinki tunnel look sensible! Verdict date: 05.09.2025
#Bullshitmeter No, there is not going to be a Turku 🇫🇮 - Stockholm 🇸🇪 fixed link (tunnels, bridges)
Too far, too expensive, not enough people living either side
Maybe instead Sweden could complete its high speed railway south of Stockholm *that does make sense* but they can't find money for?
Jon Worth's Rail Story Bullshit Meter 170km fixed link (tunnels, bridges) between Turku *= & Stockholm = to be built Complete Bullshit Bullshit Meter Not Bullshit VERDICT Bullshit There is supposed to be a study on it by 2028, but it will conclude it's not viable. Too far, too complex, and not enough people live either side anyway. It makes the Tallinn-Helsinki tunnel look sensible! Verdict date: 05.09.2025
#Bullshitmeter No, there is not going to be a Turku 🇫🇮 - Stockholm 🇸🇪 fixed link (tunnels, bridges)
Too far, too expensive, not enough people living either side
Maybe instead Sweden could complete its high speed railway south of Stockholm *that does make sense* but they can't find money for?
Verdict that the idea there will be a Eurostar station in Bedford is bullshit
Hey BBC!
My #Bullshitmeter beat you *by a whole 6 months*
There will be no Eurostar station in Bedford 😀
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Jon Worth's Rail Story Bullshit Meter New theme park in Bedford to get trains to continental Europe eurostar 4002 000 Bullshit. Complete Bullshit Meter Not Bullshit Verdict date: 25.04.2025 VERDICT Bullshit Not a hope in hell. You'd need either bespoke rolling stock, or loading gauge works on 75km of track. Eurostar could serve Disneyland now but doesn't. Why would Bedford fare better? Dream on. Story: https://www.bbc.com/news/articlos/cjdx9mgr1n2o.amp
Hey BBC!
My #Bullshitmeter beat you *by a whole 6 months*
There will be no Eurostar station in Bedford 😀
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0r7dvdxyq4o
To counter #Grok4 biasing outputs as sloppy word games, researchers have developed a way to gauge a 'Truth of Statement'.
Now we are getting useful AI. Definitely use it on humans too. The meter pinned 100 can just be a Trump laughs w/ Elon modifier.
#BullshitMeter
#XAi
arxiv.org/abs/2411.15129
Jon Worth's Rail Story Bullshit Meter New Travelski PaVellut - Gare SNCF @ Passage à niveau @ La Roche-sur-Foronplete Bullshit B Allshit Meter VERDICT Good idea, don't believe it Running a night train to the French Alps for skiing holidays is a fine idea. But the economics of night trains, especially seasonal ones, are complex. SNCF is unlikely to help, and Travelski has no suitable carriages, and no one else does either. Verdict date: 07.05.2025 Photo: Guilhem Vellut - Gare SNCF @ Passage à niveau @ La Roche-sur-Foron - CC BY 20 - https://flickr.com/photos/o_0/51723314212
There was quite some fuss a few weeks ago about a company called Travelski claiming to run a night train Paris to the Alps ⛰ for skiiers, and from the coming season https://www.travelski.com/travelski-night-express
But I can find no evidence HOW they can do this, so I made a #BullshitMeter for it
Jon Worth's Rail Story Bullshit Meter New Travelski Paris-Alps night train for ski holidays from winter 2025 61 plete Bullshit B Allshit Meter VERDICT Good idea, don't believe it Running a night train to the French Alps for skiing holidays is a fine idea. But the economics of night trains, especially seasonal ones, are complex. SNCF is unlikely to help, and Travelski has no suitable carriages, and no one else does either. Verdict date: 07.05.2025 Photo: Guilhem Vellut - Gare SNCF @ Passage à niveau @ La Roche-sur-Foron - CC BY 20 - https://flickr.com/photos/o_0/51723314212
There was quite some fuss a few weeks ago about a company called Travelski claiming to run a night train Paris to the Alps ⛰ for skiiers, and from the coming season www.travelski.com/travelski-ni...
But I can find no evidence HOW they can do this, so I made a #BullshitMeter for it
I'd like to kindly point out that this 1) is story from a month ago, re-hashed, 2) there is no detail now to indicate it will happen any more than then, 3) I made a #BullshitMeter about it already
Basically: good idea, but this will not happen 1 July this year
The proposed Newcastle to Brighton service would call at: Newcastle, Durham, Darlington, Northallerton, York, Doncaster, Sheffield, Derby, Burton-on-Trent, Birmingham New Street, Warwick Parkway, Banbury, Oxford, Reading, Wokingham, Guildford, Redhill, London Gatwick, Haywards Heath and Brighton
Yes it's UK only but I'd like to see @jonworth.eu #BullshitMeter for this. #Brighton-#Newcastle sounds attractive - "Yes, #Thameslink route via #CanalTunnels onto #ECML" I thought.
Then I saw the proposed #Arriva route, incl reversing at Redhill 🤔 news.arriva.co.uk/news/arriva-...
Bullshit Meter saying the bedford idea is bullshit
And at @kentindell.bsky.social 's suggestion, here is a #BullshitMeter for the idea that a theme park in Bedford might get trains through the Channel Tunnel
The "story"
www.bbc.com/news/article...
@jonworth.eu can we get a #BullshitMeter for how likely the Renfe Barcelona-Toulouse service will be for Summer 2025 please? The April launch has been and gone and it has me wondering if the pause will extend into the summer period now…
Jon Worth's Rail Story Bullshit Meter Warszawa - Rijeka night train to start 1 July 2025 ACCS PKO INTERISTTY 5 370 024 FIEMENS Bullshit Somplete B Ilshit Meter Not Bu! VERDICT Good idea, don't believe it The idea is fine - there would be a summertime market for a Warszawa-Rijeka night train, and the proposed trip time of c. 18 hours is correct. But I cannot see how this can start in 2025. Verdict date: 11.04.2025 Story: https://www.rynak-kolejowy.pl/wiadomosci/pociagiem-z-polski-do-chorwacji-juz-w-lipcu--122836.html
Here's a new #BullshitMeter that @theisdg.bsky.social requested
A Warszawa 🇵🇱 - Rijeka 🇭🇷 summertime night train is a good idea, but I cannot see how this can start 1 July this year!
News story: www.rynek-kolejowy.pl/wiadomosci/p...
Super curious to se what @jon 's #BullshitMeter would have to say on a SBB/ÖBB sleeper to Malmö in relative near future.
See www.tagesanzeiger.ch/sbb-2024-stiegen-die-pas... buried a bit down in the article
I love the #Bullshitmeter <3
Jon Worth's Rail Story Bullshit Meter yovkusa - Duomo Milano - Navemberancras expansion Bullshit Meter Not Bullshit VERDICT Bullshit There might be capacity at St Pancras. But Milano is 8 hours 30 from London, has no secure platforms, and no-one has any trains to run there or any on order. Verdict date: 21.02.2025 Roel Hemkes - Eurostar e320 4013-4014 met de inaugurele rit (9114) London-Amsterdam op 4 april 2018 - April 4, 2018 - CC BY 20 yovkusa - Duomo Milano - Navember 5, 2009 - CC BY-SA 20
Time for another #Bullshitmeter
Or merda di bufalo d'acqua perhaps, and I can smell it from here
No, there are not going to be trains to Milano 🇮🇹 when St Pancras station is expanded
Response to this Times story […]
[Original post on gruene.social]
Jon Worth's Rail Story Bullshit Meter London to Milan direct after St Pancras expansion Bullshit Meter Not Bullshit VERDICT Bullshit There might be capacity at St Pancras. But Milano is 8 hours 30 from London, has no secure platforms, and no-one has any trains to run there or any on order. Verdict date: 21.02.2025 Roel Hemkes - Eurostar e320 4013-4014 met de inaugurele rit (9114) London-Amsterdam op 4 april 2018 - April 4, 2018 - CC BY 20 yovkusa - Duomo Milano - Navember 5, 2009 - CC BY-SA 20
Time for another #Bullshitmeter
Or merda di bufalo d'acqua perhaps, and I can smell it from here
No, there are not going to be trains to Milano 🇮🇹 when St Pancras station is expanded
Response to this Times story www.thetimes.com/uk/transport...
Designer anarchy!!!
Shitbag MAGAenabling Trump.
PURGING Counter Terrorism Task Force MEANS WHAT exactly????
Being the arsonist AND the fire department does make you the superhero ["we"] ALL PRAYED FOR!!!
#DesignerANARCHY
#CUltMAGA
#BULLSHITmeter
@olbermann.bsky.social
Jon Worth's Rail Story Bullshit Meter Lisboa - Madrid with 1 change of train in 6 hours 30 mins from December 2025 ren/e Complete Bullshit Bulls Mete t Not Bullshit VERDICT Should happen Barring last minute crises Elvas-Evora line will be open in 2025. A CP IC train Lisboa-Elvas (or Badajoz) and a Renfe Alvia onwards to Madrid should complete the trip in about 6 hours 30 mins. Verdict date: 15.01.2025 Photo: Pablo Nieto Abad - Alvia. Viaducto del Barbantiño - October 6, 2023 - CC BY-SA 2.0
New #BullshitMeter this morning
Rather surprisingly I think this one might happen: Lisboa-Madrid will likely improve once the Elvas-Evora line opens
The story: www.dn.pt/edicao-impre...
