Bruxelles-Paris by Eurostar (ex-Thalys) 300km/h high speed train takes just 1 hour 22 minutes, but as anyone who has taken it in recent years can testify, the prices can be horribly high, mostly because capacity is not adequate and no one has yet entered the market against the incumbent. This […]
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In the summer of 2021, in between COVID lockdowns and needing all sorts of paperwork as a result, I made a trip from Berlin to Beograd, Serbia. I will only come to your event, I told the conference organisers, if I can make the trip by train and bus. I […]
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All of the borders listed are places I have been, and are among my priority borders where problems need to be fixed. I cannot claim credit for having solved any of these, but I am quite sure me repeatedly talking about them – especially Turmantas! – has likely not been […]
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The Verband Deutscher Verkehrsunternehmen (VDV) (Association of German Transport Companies) has a detailed new website about reactivation of railway lines, and a PDF report with more detail. And one aspect of their proposals are cross-border reactivations that they have been publicising with the little infographic that I reproduce here. So […]
Read More (Dieser Artikel wurde mit Hilfe von Deepl aus dem Englischen übersetzt und leicht korrigiert) Der Verband Deutscher Verkehrsunternehmen (VDV) hat eine ausführliche neue Website über die Reaktivierung von Eisenbahnstrecken und einen PDF-Bericht mit weiteren Details veröffentlicht. Ein Aspekt ihrer Vorschläge sind grenzüberschreitende Reaktivierungen, die sie mit der kleinen Infografik, die […]
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Innotrans is the world’s largest train fair for the railway industry – it happens every two years in Berlin, and this year it’s on 24-27 Setpember. And yes, I organised my move from Germany from France accordingly – to be able to go before departing Berlin for good! But it […]
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Credit to one of my students at TU Braunschweig, Roland Sivonen, for discovering this one – Deutsche Bahn’s cheap Sparpreis train tickets now work correctly from Germany to Strasbourg, and some other new destinations in France as well. In this blog post I am going to explain how this change can […]
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So the new Régiolis trains are going to be running on France-Germany routes in “Summer 2025” according to Transport Minister, Baden-Württemberg Winfried Hermann and President of Région Grand Est, Franck Leroy. They may as well be picking dates at random. It is all because of delayed approval of the trains […]
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Finally I am done sorting and uploading photos from #CrossBorderRail South East Europe 2024 In this post there is one photo from each of the days, and a link to the full Flickr album from that day – to give an idea of this weird and wonderful journey! Day -02 […]
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At the somewhat dilapidated border station Šíd (Serbia, border to Croatia) I sat and talked with the freelance journalist Thomas Roser – he is based in Beograd. This resulted in 5 articles in the German speaking press – 4 in Germany, 1 in Austria. Frankfurter Rundschau Bahn in Europa: Letzter […]
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