EU Year of Rail - Jon Worth

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EU Year of Rail

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Europe's empty publicity train - the Connecting Europe Express - reaches the end of the line

Europe's empty publicity train - the Connecting Europe Express - reaches the end of the line

On Thursday 7th October the EU Year of Rail "Connecting Europe Express" reaches its final stop in Paris after a month criss-crossing Europe. If ever a tweet summed up the emptiness, the hollowness, of this train, it was this by Community of European Railways' Yann Seimandi: https:

How to repair Serbia's railways? A report

How to repair Serbia's railways? A report

On 30th June 2021 I was a speaker at the Transport Community and Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Rail Summer School in Belgrade. There's just one caveat, I told Matej Zakonjšek the Director of Transport Community who invited me: I am going to make the trip to Belgrade from Berlin

Turning the Connecting Europe Express into a Conversation Europe Express

I'm just back from speaking at a Transport Community event in Belgrade. The trip to and from Serbia, and some of the discussions at the event I was attending, were quite an eye opener (I documented much of it on Twitter here). But seeing the problems with Serbian