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2026 112

  1. A rant about the Urda rail disaster
  2. Analysing railways with a Brexit diagram in my head
  3. Timetable Change 2027 Part 1: lines (re-)opening
  4. Bullshit Meter: Heuro to run Paris - Amsterdam trains in 2030
  5. How to (re-)open a UK station for long distance Channel Tunnel trains (and why it still should be Ashford)
  6. Avoiding another cross border route collapse in December: why Praha - München should still work
  7. Wunderline turns to farce, and accountability collapses
  8. Bullshit Meter: Croatia - Greece trains on an EU funded coast line
  9. Bullshit Meter: DSB Talgo 230 trains are "Reliable"
  10. How Alstom's inability to deliver trains on schedule, and Danish incompetence, will break an important regional train connection (and how to fix it)
  11. How to avoid using inappropriate stock photos of trains
  12. Platform numbers, finger pointing, and the end for some modern locomotives
  13. Bullshit Meter: Direct Köln - London trains will depart Gleis 5 at Köln Hbf
  14. Trains to London from Gleis 5 at Köln Hbf? It's bold
  15. Want trains to continental Europe from Stratford? Here's how
  16. "My train is even worse than your train!" and why that is quite tiring, especially from people from Great Britain
  17. 77 borders to go, but then what?
  18. Who should set connection times to allow passengers to change trains? The Czechs have it right.
  19. Your Deutsche Bahn "joke" is no longer funny (if it ever was)
  20. The film of the longest train journey in the EU
  21. In this Innotrans world all seems fine. The rail world outside, not so much.
  22. Bullshit Meter: NOX to launch first night train route 23rd March 2027
  23. A week on from the record breaking trip
  24. Bullshit Meter: New Eurostar trains to have double deck cocktail bars
  25. Press Release: Record Breaking Longest Train Journey in the EU to begin in Kemijärvi
  26. International railway connections between the Baltic states
  27. Bullshit Meter: GoVolta to run high speed trains Amsterdam - Paris
  28. Passengers can't complain about trains they cannot take because they don't exist: in defence of German rail
  29. Bullshit Meter: European Sleeper & RDC Bruxelles - Malmö Sleeper in 2028
  30. The end for Freiburg-Colmar? But was there ever a start?
  31. Bullshit Meter: Virgin Trains to run Channel Tunnel services in 2030
  32. The #CrossBorderRail method, and a post summer break round up
  33. Bullshit Meter: Arriva NL to run international high speed trains
  34. A rail journey to the outer reaches of the EU, and a record to set
  35. Forget it. The Caledonian Sleeper is not going to run through the Channel Tunnel
  36. After years of frustration, suddenly progress with France - Spain rail connections
  37. Direct trains Trieste - Beograd
  38. Oh deer. An animal strike makes my trip rather Silly
  39. Praha - Berlin - København: well at least the carriages can complete the entire journey
  40. A train trip across a roasting Europe
  41. Kyiv-Chișinău train to run every day from end of June onwards
  42. TGVs Bruxelles - France, the unloved other high speed train from Belgium
  43. NS to operate trains Amsterdam - Utrecht - Germany from 2028
  44. SNCF would sooner leave passengers stranded than make simple timetable adjustments
  45. Beograd - Zagreb - Ljubljana trains back and faster by 2029
  46. There are always more international rail lines to discover and understand
  47. Italo in Germany. Nice idea, but many open questions.
  48. Leo Express Przemyśl - Frankfurt train to start in 2026
  49. Jon Worth exclusive! 25% off Paris - Berlin train tickets! (Really, sort of)
  50. Screaming down the tracks
  51. Baku - Tbilisi train to restart this month
  52. Cross-border railway problems are annoyingly universal
  53. EU railway ticketing proposals are out. What now?
  54. Berlin - Oslo ICE direct train in 2028
  55. State railways, what's wrong? CER's perplexing response to the European Commission's Passenger Package
  56. How to make the rail ticketing aspects of the European Commission's Passenger Package more workable
  57. How the gospel - the Political Guidelines - left the European Commission with a ticketing proposal both radical and unworkable
  58. EU rail ticketing reform proposal is out next week: this is what to look out for
  59. Albania's shoddy new railway
  60. Skopje commuter train service to start 1st September
  61. The longest train journey in the EU
  62. We now know the scale of EU rail ticketing issues. Commission, over to you!
  63. Italo to run high speed trains in Germany
  64. Launch of the new #CrossBorderRail database of international railway lines
  65. Kyiv - Bulgaria trains to start in summer 2026
  66. I'm not that bothered if SNCF Connect is forced to sell Trenitalia tickets, but someone has to be able to offer me both
  67. My railway work: no shortage of meaning, but for the EU institutions that can be uncomfortable
  68. A tram-train for Nijmegen - Kleve: the option with the fewest downsides
  69. Monocab as a solution for rural rail lines
  70. Chancers to the left of me, malevolent incumbents to the right, stuck in the middle with... what?
  71. ÉcoTrain: €3 million to answer the wrong question
  72. There is a solution to connect Saarbrücken and Luxembourg by train. But France has to play its part too.
  73. Direct Eindhoven - Bruxelles Train
  74. Rising fuel costs due to the Iran conflict give European railways an opportunity - can they seize it?
  75. Paris-Stuttgart, and Stuttgart-Budapest: two railway worlds
  76. SNCF and Bourgogne-Franche-Comté: a railway that has given up
  77. Remind me, why are we trying to fix rail ticketing in the EU?
  78. Zagreb-Sarajevo trains to re-start
  79. Transport & Environment tries to come up with a position on rail ticketing, but it's very imprecise
  80. A silly idea to prove a point? The European Railway Ticketing Championship
  81. Quick notes on Trenitalia's new maintenance facility at Maisons-Alfort Pompadour
  82. New trains are not necessarily good trains
  83. Eurostar is not going to maintain 67 trains at Temple Mills
  84. Bundling up tickets and booking horizons: railways are making a problem for themselves
  85. Rail path dependency: how the oil crisis and the British government left SNCF with a problem in Italian tunnels
  86. Confirmed: SNCF's Alstom built TGV-M Avelia Horizon trains are too large for some Italian rail lines
  87. Rail in Slovenia: only new lines can improve it from here
  88. Crossrail 2 starts to be built in 2026
  89. IRJ tries to explain the EU rail ticketing reform, so I will try to decipher what they were trying to say
  90. Hungary-Serbia by train, before Orbán's section of the Chinese built line opens
  91. TGV Les Laumes-Alésia? Astérix is having a laugh
  92. Berlin to build a maglev to Tegel
  93. Who is to benefit from the forthcoming reform of the railway ticketing regime in the EU?
  94. Positive talk about the future of rail between Netherlands and Belgium
  95. One ticket, or more than one ticket, for my international train trip? More than one, with passenger rights, is the simpler solution
  96. Bulgaria - North Macedonia Tunnel by 2028
  97. Somebody in France has to want to run night trains
  98. Chinese investment in European railways
  99. Norway launches panoramic glass roof train to see northern lights
  100. Railway churnalism: how many stories do I need about some new seats and a bit of carpet?
  101. Dear European leaders: here's a little idea for your competitiveness agenda
  102. How to safely overload a high speed train (and why it matters for the debate about ticketing reform in the EU)
  103. How to fix railway ticketing in the EU
  104. Loop line to connect British and Irish cities
  105. Five "innovative" projects in France to save branch lines, but what's the point?
  106. Sofia-Thessaloniki trains to return
  107. A February trip to Berlin: to systematically document my #CrossBorderRail work
  108. Finally some progress for France-Germany regional rail
  109. Hungary to buy 100 Chinese InterCity Trains
  110. Ebbsfleet or Ashford? It has to be one or the other, not both, and it needs to be Ashford
  111. I've been wrong all these years about printed train timetables (the lessons from a Montbard - Nuits-sous-Ravières train that doesn't run)
  112. Radical enough to see purpose in my work, sensible enough to propose something that can be done?

2025 33

  1. If you were to build a depot for Channel Tunnel passenger trains, where would you build it?
  2. A little short term subsidy for this or that route is no way to support night trains - lessons from the end of Basel-Malmö before it even started
  3. European Rail Passengers Union: lobbying for passengers, cross border
  4. #CrossChannelRail final report released, and the next steps
  5. "News" that Régiolis cross border trains cannot operate in Germany is actually nothing new
  6. A Stockholm-Turku link with tunnels and bridges
  7. Two public bike tours, and a speech on board the Kulturzug Berlin-Wrocław - let's talk #CrossBorderRail this autumn!
  8. Mapy.com - the map app for everything?
  9. Deciphering the "Virgin Trains to order 12 Alstom trains for Channel Tunnel" stories
  10. The €2bn question: why has Eurostar still not ordered any new trains?
  11. Preliminary conclusions from my #CrossChannelRail project
  12. Night train to the alps - this year
  13. Eurostar trains to a theme park (no, not that one!)
  14. No Villa Opicina - Divača - Pivka - Rijeka trains in 2025, no re-launch date known
  15. Warszawa - Rijeka train to start in 3 months
  16. Trenitalia to run London-Paris in 2029 - the most serious rival to Eurostar yet
  17. The accessibility problems with Alstom's new TGV-M train - with implications for future Channel Tunnel operators
  18. London to Milan once St Pancras is rebuilt
  19. A story of two tunnels: Kriva Palanka to Gyushevo, and the Channel Tunnel
  20. Lisboa-Madrid to be a bit less painful
  21. Oslo-Malmö in the summer of 2025
  22. Subotica-Novi Sad to open in 2025
  23. Frecciarossa Milano-Ljubljana in 2025
  24. A Spain-Morocco Tunnel
  25. Tunnel under Frankfurt (Main) for long distance trains
  26. København-Oslo in Spring 2026
  27. A Helsinki-Tallinn tunnel
  28. Oslo-Göteborg in 1 hour
  29. Re-gauge Finland's railways to standard gauge
  30. Night trains combined with freight
  31. Qbuzz to run Amsterdam-Paris in 2027
  32. Dubai to build a rail tunnel to India
  33. Portugal-Spain night trains to return in 2025

2024 14

  1. No Eurostar isn't the worst performing train company in Europe. But if you're T&E does it matter?
  2. From Turmantas to Nova Gorica - #CrossBorderRail improvements due in 2025
  3. VDV on cross border re-activation of lines - nice idea, details more sketchy
  4. A partial #CrossBorderRail success - Deutsche Bahn Sparpreis cheap tickets now work to Strasbourg and to some other destination in Eastern France
  5. "Summer 2025" for the new Régiolis trains France-Germany - Leroy and Hermann are just picking dates at random
  6. 30 trains costing €376 million for France-Germany services - parked up without any prospect of operations until 2027
  7. North Macedonia's phantom rail line, and why I am worried they're repeating the error at the other end of the country
  8. Rail Baltica: better informed but none the wiser
  9. Another #CrossBorderRail success - timetables for Irun-Hendaia Euskotren are finally in international timetable searches
  10. France and Germany: united in what exactly when it comes to public transport?
  11. A report for Jakop Dalunde MEP and a follow up event about rail and multimodal ticketing in the EU
  12. Determined citizens in Breisach, rail replacement buses to Müllheim, and no clarity about new trains - France-Germany regional rail remains a mess
  13. 3 of the #CrossBorderRail Top 20 projects now solved
  14. The future of long distance train services through the Channel Tunnel

2023 5

  1. Belfort-Delémont - yes, #CrossBorderRail to France can always get worse
  2. Deutschlandticket nach / à / to Strasbourg
  3. Border stations in national tariff systems - a simple change with a meaningful impact
  4. The best #CrossBorderRail lines to visit
  5. A diagram to explain EU cross border rail passengers rights - and to push for political change

2021 1

  1. The EU should place a blanket ban on trains being scrapped

2018 1

  1. SNCF. Is this public service?

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  1. Berlin warszawa with flixtrain
  2. Gorizia nova gorica to have passenger trains
  3. Milano paris an april fool or not
  4. European sleeper amsterdam barcelona
  5. Virgin trains to rival eurostar by 2029
  6. Introducing the rail story bullshit meter
  7. Up and running on ghost
  8. Now were going to get a bruxelles and amsterdam to milano night train or are we
  9. How do i overcome my railway groucho marx problem
  10. No to scanners at railway stations
  11. Bus etiquette
  12. Deception on the way to stockholm
  13. Cyclists red traffic lights
  14. How can i reduce my emissions
  15. Pressure problems for kids in planes and will hutton
  16. Bag on the bus
  17. One railway replies to my complaint but will anything change
  18. Green line 757 price discrimination
  19. Plane pilots a uniquely male preserve
  20. Life vest under your seat
  21. Sheer incompetence from sas
  22. New iris technology and a delightfully old fashioned airline
  23. Autumn fog
  24. Motivation of london bus drivers
  25. What is it about my visits to the netherlands
  26. You carry your prejudices with you eurostar advertising
  27. Trains planes and the ethics of travel
  28. Get over the m4 coach crash paranoia
  29. So we need to go to ikea streetcar
  30. 2 near misses in a day sick of other cyclists
  31. Shielded from the underground life
  32. The underground challenge sub culture
  33. Rev your bus less
  34. Fleeced by first
  35. Stylish cycling from berlin to barcelona via zuerich
  36. De training and a first ever missed flight
  37. Streetcar plays cleverly on gender stereotypes
  38. Aiport signs the serious and the frivolous
  39. Good dutch design so im set for stylish cycling
  40. The 0805 to st pancras international
  41. Eurostar grandeur
  42. The unique challenge of a belgian junction
  43. Brussels london berlin london brussels london brussels
  44. Swedish rail transport and the market twisted signals
  45. Thalys to paris its the planes and the second seat that are the real scandal
  46. Brussels st pancras gatwick montreal and onwards
  47. Riding the railroad
  48. Customer service how you should do it
  49. You know you have a problem with your main airport when
  50. London sheffield for an early meeting how hard can it be
  51. Farmland the game not only ryanair has problems with scantily clad women
  52. Body mass index airline seat pricing
  53. In the grip of star alliance
  54. Dive lake malawi
  55. The hypocrisy of europes railways some observations after a journey from brussels to germany
  56. Photo intermission autumn in east london
  57. Koln london e66 50 or bruxelles london 121 booking today on exactly the same trains odd no
  58. Topic 1 for nl uk dialogue rail tickets london bruxelles rotterdam
  59. Eurostar rebrands suppose ill get used to it
  60. Bringing german cycle culture to the uk
  61. Driving more nails into the schengen coffin
  62. How to consistently get london brussels or brussels london eurostar tickets for e49 single
  63. Petra ticket prices
  64. The case for night trains from brussels
  65. Dubai
  66. Ljubljana
  67. The worlds 11 coolest train stations jw version
  68. My top erm coolest airports
  69. 5 stops 13 trains a little european rail diary
  70. Cheap rail tickets through germany
  71. In praise of db bahn not the railway but the twitter account
  72. Schengen what can they ask and what am i obliged to tell
  73. Non schengen compliant border control between st jean de maurienne and modane 9th october 2012 1240
  74. A little nordic rail trip
  75. Ok so schengen is a myth systematic checks on the train leaving france are ok according to the commission
  76. The demise of citynightline
  77. Goodbye benelux train the service that gave me my best ever rail story to date
  78. How to organise a rail replacement bus service schienenersatzverkehr
  79. Odd and cool videos about denmark
  80. Non schengen or non danish law compliant border control at padborg 16th january 2013 0651
  81. Non schengen compliant border control at puttgarden 21st january 2013 1244
  82. A border control dressed up as a customs control inside schengen buchs switzerland 1020 14 march 2013
  83. A little brussels london security paranoia case study this coming friday
  84. The lille loophole stop london checks on all except 3 trains
  85. Are reservation fees and private railways killing the allure of interrail
  86. Five types of railway market in europe
  87. The future of channel tunnel long distance passenger railway services
  88. Bike boxes at traffic lights a little eye witness example
  89. Torn between a retro past and an uncertain future is the sun setting on romanian rail
  90. Taking the train rather than the plane for business travel in europe does it work
  91. The worst international train service ive taken for a long time in switzerland ok with an italian train
  92. A rail postcard from hendaye
  93. A rail postcard from liege
  94. A rail postcard from goteborg
  95. Commission replies to my rzepin schengen complaint
  96. Non schengen and non french law compliant border control at perpignan 31st may 1106
  97. The great wall of china at shanhaiguan
  98. The evolution of bicycles in beijing
  99. Price discrimination in car hire belgium germany
  100. Targus replacement wheels
  101. What does it take for the commission to take a schengen complaint seriously
  102. Villo mobib 6 months of free cycling in brussels
  103. Review raleigh nightflight 8g men 2013
  104. Building an organisation to defend eu wide rail
  105. Stuck between public service and a for profit company deutsche bahn is not benefitting passengers
  106. The guardian end of the line for europes iconic night trains
  107. A rail postcard from forst lausitz
  108. How e93 million of eu money prevents polish trains being used eu wide
  109. Frankfurtoder poznan regional trains axed from 1st january 2015
  110. Bundestag hearing on long distance rail night trains autozug
  111. The extraordinary ease of drivenow gps based car sharing
  112. My attention seeking blaze bicycle light
  113. A rail postcard from mannheim
  114. Revisiting car hire price discrimination 1 step forward europcar 2 steps back hertz avis
  115. Source market pricing euphemism for car hire companies screwing customers
  116. Brits going to spain at may bank holiday youre probably paying too much for car hire
  117. Now dresden wroclaw trains are cancelled for good third piece of bad news for pl de rail this winter alone
  118. Frances lgv rhin rhone best serves paris so much for high speed lines of regional importance
  119. Beware the uic train to paris cross border rail for dignitaries only
  120. Uber returning to brussels i think this is a decent solution
  121. Non schengen complaint border control at buchs sg station 1 july 2015 0700
  122. A guide to the trains of bulgaria
  123. Should i have to pay more for a rail ticket so as to ensure i get compensation
  124. A rail postcard from berlin suedkreuz
  125. Not always the cheapest train in france and a sneaky 50 cent belgian charge
  126. A rail postcard from koeln
  127. Another blow for strasbourg no more direct brussels strasbourg trains from 3rd april 2016
  128. A rail postcard from baden baden
  129. Is a rimowa suitcase worth the money
  130. Thalys izy market segmentation is not the same as competition
  131. Walk 500m to avoid stibs security checks thats not security thats a joke
  132. Three weeks in central asia a review
  133. Taking the train is a strain newport to berlin case
  134. Why belgiums plan for pnr for rail and busescoaches must be stopped
  135. How do you book an austrian train obb nightjet from germany to switzerland
  136. The cheapest deutsche bahn sparpreis across central germany starts in czech republic
  137. Locomore lives czech partners support flixbus
  138. Berlin escooter sharing scheme join testing coup emmy
  139. Enduring mess cross border rail booking geneva berlin
  140. A rail postcard from passow uckermark
  141. A day trip to the last outpost of the soviet union tiraspol in transnistria
  142. The definitive guide to berlin multi mode mobility apps
  143. How a little openness and transparency would change eu wide rail
  144. How to book brussels amsterdam rail tickets a further example of the absurdity of cross border rail in the eu
  145. Turning a 2001 riese und muller birdy into a modern folding bicycle
  146. Why is the berlin amsterdam train so slow and why is it so hard to do anything about it
  147. The weird and wonderful world of eiffel tower replicas and derivatives geoguessr
  148. Why you should buy a bike trailer for cargo
  149. Sage of the suburbs when new york times makes a kind of political geoguessr
  150. Bloomberg publishes new interactive website about night trains in europe
  151. If theres demand for a night train on a route and a night train could be profitable how can it be that no one runs it
  152. Tough times ahead for german rail supply industry procure some night trains
  153. Germanys transport ministry makes the case for a european rolling stock pool
  154. French ministry of the ecological transition report on night trains focus on both french and international routes
  155. Its a night train but not as we know it arriva has plans
  156. Thank you meps delli and cuffe for thinking of night trains as part of smart mobility in the eu
  157. Revival of the trans europ express tee these plans are going to need some new trains
  158. More innovation in fast freight than in fast night trains in italy and new night trains with seats only in germany
  159. Von der leyen promises e85bn for sustainable transport night train rolling stock would be an ideal use for it
  160. Bawu transport minister hermann is right rail isnt always a viable alternative not yet anyway
  161. Midnight trains we wish them well but where are the carriages needed going to come from
  162. Whats an appropriate level of ambition for a project about night trains in europe
  163. Turning the connecting europe express into a conversation europe express
  164. How to repair serbias railways a report
  165. Well be on the connectingeurope express krakow to ljubljana
  166. An annual cross border rail index a means to assess whats going on with eu wide rail
  167. A trip to wendisch rietz an example of car free mobility
  168. From split to krakow by train or maybe not
  169. The next problem for night trains in netherlands the locomotives are too heavy or the track too unstable
  170. Europes empty publicity train the connecting europe express reaches the end of the line
  171. How to book a stockholm hamburg train ticket using the stockholm malmo night train
  172. What the european commission ought to do an annual index of cross border rail in europe
  173. Zuggegenflug an idea
  174. Modernising a dahon mini folding bicycle
  175. Zuggegenflug its on but not quite yet
  176. Berlinbledberlin trip report
  177. The longest train journey in the world
  178. Revisiting michael cramers missing links 6 years on meagre progress
  179. A look ahead whats in store for night trains in europe in 2022
  180. Nighttrainsberlin
  181. Skyscanner for rail before we can even build such a thing we need a european rail timetable
  182. Crossborderrail
  183. Where we stand with the need to order new night trains the eu every government every operator assessed
  184. What germany needs to do about night trains
  185. A consortium to order night train carriages
  186. Open letter trains to kaunas
  187. Reflections on rail advocacy in eu politics
  188. Decarbonise rail diagrams battery trains and a visit to stadlers plant in pankow
  189. How to use deutsche bahns de connect tickets for train trips between germany and london
  190. Night trains scale and standardisation
  191. Europes railways unable to play the role they should in the climate transition
  192. Autonomy reliability and public transport
  193. Illegal and systematic non schengen compliant border controls at frankfurt oder 31 august 2022 every train controlled every train delayed
  194. I ought to work more on european railway topics but how
  195. Germanys 49 euro ticket a faq
  196. Bruxelles koeln and decision makers disconnection from reality
  197. Why are europes railways a mess our public diagnosis of the problem falls short
  198. Autumn press coverage of the crossborderrail project 2
  199. You are invited to the funeral for the mons aulnoye aymeries train
  200. European railways and the implementation gap
  201. Deutschlandticket 49 euro ticket faq
  202. The 49 euro ticket deutschlandticket the ticket that no one really wants
  203. If covid is now endemic its time to discuss permanent changes to the way we behave like wear a mask zones on long distance trains
  204. Why interrail is structurally incapable of fixing the seat reservation problems with its passes
  205. Geo racers the most fun web travel game since geoguessr
  206. Fixing frances railways what would i do
  207. Chatgpt vs adina valean the machine does a solid job
  208. A new departure transport commentary has its own site
  209. Bike parking at berlin hbf
  210. Quoted in politiken about the european commissions international rail pilot projects
  211. Taking apart euronewss puff piece about the new tgvs
  212. When dpa gets it wrong about railways the whole of the german media gets it wrong
  213. European sleeper bruxelles amsterdam berlin you better know it exists
  214. Stadlers new day night trains for norway i have some questions
  215. Faster trains between munchen and milano and munchen and roma possible but not quite in the way merkur frames it
  216. Viral rubbish about railways this time about trains in italy
  217. Quoted in berliner zeitung about the brenner pilot project
  218. Timeout makes a right hash of the new milano munchen trains story
  219. Make international rail cheaper capacity on a route is the crucial issue
  220. Meeting michael peterson with die zeit and quoted by cnn about shift from planes to trains
  221. Will there be a direct train from insert city to london through the channel tunnel probably not
  222. Quoted in the ft we are full the rebirth of europes sleeper trains
  223. Crowd funding for crossborderrail 2023 all of germanys borders is now open
  224. Toute leurope a future night train map thats very very bad
  225. Events planned routes adjusted and crowdfunding ongoing crossborderrail is 2 weeks away
  226. New trains for france germany regional services to be delayed 2 years now 2026 not 2024
  227. Deutschlandticket as a tourist buy it from mo pla
  228. Explaining complexity in my usual way with a diagram this time deutschlandticket
  229. The personal is political have you ever been to seifhennersdorf zgorzelec or ormenio
  230. Strasbourg karlsruhe no saarbrucken where the future paris berlin ice stops is not the issue
  231. Turning it around could you make the use of berlins streets better for everyone
  232. Where is the sense of urgency in international rail in the eu i cant see it
  233. If theres to be a rival to eurostar through the channel tunnel its not going to be mobico with new trains in 2025
  234. Running for the european parliament election list for the german grune
  235. How do you even say takt for a timetable in english
  236. We know whats wrong with european railways mostly but how do we fix it
  237. Policy proposals to fix europes railways
  238. Simple international trips and the failures of ticket booking platforms
  239. When the only way from wissembourg to strasbourg is through germany with 3 changes of train
  240. How to actually build europe wide multimodal public transport booking platforms
  241. If you wanted a massive increase in night train routes in europe how could you do it
  242. Problems with the cheb nurnberg passenger service and no one knows whats going on
  243. The berliner ostbahn a railway project with potential for commuters for the region for connections to poland and even for freight from the baltic states
  244. Why db reiseasukunft on the web is still my main train planning tool
  245. If spain wants to introduce a short haul flight ban heres how to avoid the traps of frances ban
  246. Budapest to belgrade by train from 28 november 2023
  247. Why bother with sensible transport policies when you can propose a maglev instead
  248. So party politics did not work its time to solve europes railway problems some other way
  249. Why the european commissions cross border pilot projects are a good idea but not the way the commission communicates it
  250. Newags digital sabotage of dolny slasks trains what were they thinking
  251. Stuck between an undeveloped market and the hangovers of state monopolies rail passengers face the worst of both worlds
  252. Why berlin cant just do as paris does on cycling and parking policy
  253. Deutschlandfunk and suddeutsche zeitung about railway ticketing and a niche slow train in croatia
  254. Interrail tips and tricks
  255. What analysis would you like to read send me your ideas and i will have a go
  256. Therell be a new european commissioner for transport in 2024 but im not hopeful for change
  257. Please look after your activists when they are alive the natenom case
  258. A hydrogen tram for gorlitz about the worst idea i can imagine
  259. Trainline rail europe and omio only inadvertently solving cross border rail ticketing headaches
  260. Mannheim bruxelles in 1972 and what it tells us about mannheim bruxelles today
  261. Bad muskau leknica and the joys and tensions at the germany poland border
  262. How green are europes railways
  263. What good is live tracking data if i cannot act on it
  264. Europa spoort niet reflections on appearing in vpros documentary about european railways
  265. Crossborderrail south east europe crowdfunding now open
  266. Yield management and compulsory reservation how much of each should we tolerate in railways
  267. Should deutsche bahn be obliged to sell tickets of private rivals in db navigator
  268. If you reduced track access charges in european passenger rail very little would happen at least short term
  269. No amount of investment in infrastructure can save rail companies from themselves
  270. Abandoned luggage on trains and the presumption of innocence
  271. Railways and the enrico letta report on the future of the single market
  272. Sncf is stopping sales of most international tickets a decision rooted in incompetence and communicated with malevolence
  273. Schlimmer geht immer rumours about the transport portfolio in the next european commission
  274. Note to the new eu transport commissioner fixing cross border rail ticketing will help millions of europeans and can secure your legacy
  275. So long berlin im off to a bourgogne village
  276. When you peel back the rhetoric from community of european railways on ticketing theyre left naked
  277. Somewhere between hell and hyper loop where our railway discussion ought to be
  278. How to not fall foul of sncfs luggage rules
  279. Deutsche bahn has an amazing opportunity in ticket sales but is too blinded by flixtrain to seize it
  280. The stadler rs zero the new solution to save the smallest branch lines
  281. International rail ticketing that is customer unfriendly that is the system working as intended we need eu law to change the system
  282. Berlins problem with dumped cars
  283. Tzitzikostas at his ep hearing 4th november its time to hear how he wants to fix eu wide rail ticketing
  284. Only eu law is going to solve cross border rail ticketing problems
  285. We cant transport more passengers because our planes are already full said michael oleary never so why are rail companies saying essentially that
  286. When will the new subotica novi sad rail line open theres no dodging a decision now
  287. In this peculiar world of cross border railways the new slow bruxelles paris ouigo train makes sense
  288. More passengers are a problem for the railways
  289. Heres what a joined up 21st century train network needs trying to give some answers
  290. Assumptions
  291. What should be in an eu high speed rail action plan
  292. Bundling trip planning and ticketing together its not in the passengers interest
  293. The rail planning tool we need in europe
  294. Solving the valence armentieres problem the gold standard for railway trip planning and ticket sales
  295. Want to rival eurostar on channel tunnel routes how do you differentiate yourself
  296. The really simple guide to what we need to fix in eu wide rail ticketing and how
  297. New channel tunnel entrant you need a plan for what happens if you fail so you can actually succeed
  298. Solar panels between the tracks on an active railway line a dreadful idea
  299. Cant deliver packages in crowded cities put more err passengers on your trams
  300. A high speed rail plan for europe lets start with a high speed rail plan for frances borders
  301. Railway work what i am doing has some ethical purpose but is anyone listening
  302. 8am on the slow train to paris
  303. Crossborderrail finale 2025
  304. Podcasts and webinars galore about the future of the channel tunnel thanks to crosschannelrail
  305. Crossborderrail what am i trying to find and whats the goal
  306. Rough notes about the longest train journey in the world in 2025
  307. Replying to the european commissions call for evidence on revision of rail passenger rights
  308. Does a railway operator need to know about all the legs of my journey so as to offer me passenger rights
  309. Green signals podcast about rivals to eurostar and some further thoughts about the challengers
  310. Connecting the everyday user experience with the big picture politics of french railways
  311. Komoot you saved me on lithuanian dirt roads and the streets of roma but its time for something new
  312. Building a machine translated railway news aggregator
  313. Sncfs half hearted effort to support international night trains in danger of hitting the buffers
  314. Why you probably should not re gauge railways in europe
  315. Constraints on future channel tunnel operators
  316. What train other than alstom avelia horizon could eurostar even consider
  317. Eurostar ordering just 30 alstom trains pragmatism and a lack of ambition
  318. Working out what eurostar is going to do based on the numbers not what the company says
  319. Orr grants virgin trains access to temple mills the low risk option
  320. All about 2 metres the importance of the difference between a 200m and a 202m train is scarcely plausible
  321. A news story and a social media post from elvas to nagykereki this works as a means to better understand whats happening with international rail
  322. Not being allocated depot space at temple mills blessing in disguise
  323. When a plans not a plan and a revolution isnt a revolution european high speed rail
  324. We have no intellectual space for big but implementable ideas about railways
  325. Renfe why should we trust a word you say about ticketing
  326. The avelia horizon trains eurostar has ordered from alstom are not compliant with channel tunnel evacuation rules what can be done about it
  327. An open letter and an invoice for e59 94 to alberto mazzola boss of community of european railways
  328. A creative solution to serve koln hbf en route from frankfurt main to london
  329. Flat rate ticketing public transport policymaking through shock
  330. Planning with disruption in mind would you attempt this trip
  331. Good news the seifhennersdorf de varnsdorf cz line to re open
  332. The deutschlandticket when is a regional train not a regional train
  333. Mapping my crossborderrail projects
  334. Mapping all of europes crossborderrail lines
  335. Mons aulnoye belgium and france close a cross border passenger railway line
  336. A different solution for night trains a flexible leasing and operations company
  337. A previous trip to gorizia nova gorica
  338. Where is the ambition in the provision of international night trains
  339. If something is incorrect we should not repeat it even if we want it
  340. European commission action plan to boost long distance and cross border passenger rail a glass half full
  341. Djebbari announces a trains for france a missed opportunity
  342. Subsidise night train services or sort out the market conditions to enable night trains to run
  343. A swift assessment of the german grunes night train plans
  344. When the personal is political and why i am now building a campaign about railways
  345. Trains for europe gets a mention on france24 television debate about night trains
  346. Rolling stock for a new night train even sbb and obb have plenty of difficulties
  347. Sbb boss vincent ducrot talks about the future of night trains to from switzerland
  348. Rail at the forefront of smart and sustainable mobility council of the eu conclusions offer scope for night train investment
  349. Frances pm castex takes the re introduced night train paris nice but its hardly comfortable
  350. Railpro diagnoses the challenges for new operators trying to enter the long distance rail market
  351. Detailed night train research from oui au train de nuit
  352. Eib electric buses funding model the way forward to finance night train stock
  353. Germanwatch report on european trains travel
  354. Night trains are excellent but marginal how can their provision be scaled up in europe
  355. Long distance rail in europe an absence of a discernible strategy
  356. Europatakt a vision for eu wide rail
  357. Tegel airport good riddance
  358. How could the eu solve the night train conundrum procure a massive fleet of night train carriages and lease them to operators
  359. Dont be distracted by obbs shiny night train to brussels the problems of eu wide rail run far deeper
  360. The prerequisites to make a liberalised eu rail market work
  361. A rail postcard from brussels
  362. A rail postcard from aachen
  363. Why securing europes railways against terrorism shouldnt be attempted
  364. More transparency needed an eu citizen cant currently know when and where schengen is suspended
  365. Politico europe 4 things america could learn from europe when it comes to railways
  366. Non schengen compliant border control between rzepin and frankfurt oder 11th march 2014 2156
  367. More from that little nordic rail trip liberalisation doesnt work
  368. How to complain to an airline do it en masse
  369. In its quest for market share deutsche bahn has forgotten about technology and service on their frankfurt brussels route
  370. Paris 114 km
  371. Db schenker takes to the rails in the uk
  372. Carbon neutral year well lower carbon at least
  373. All 5 london airports and then the real world
  374. Feeling bad about being right
  375. Finally home journeys should not be like this
  376. Ok being community spirited is not such a good idea
  377. A small good deed in lambeth
  378. Ken livingstone and the genius of oyster
  379. The london underground some practical ways to improve it