So there will not be a Basel – Malmö night train from the spring of 2026. Switzerland’s parliament did not approve the subsidy to allow it to run. Without the 10 million CHF the parliament refused to grant to get this going (from a wider fund of 47 million CHF […]
It has been something in the back of my mind for more than a decade: how could railway passengers be better represented to campaign for improvements in international rail? Here’s a piece I wrote in 2014 about the topic. And the issue very much came to a head in 2021 […]
I was sent this a few hours ago in a messenger group, and it’s brilliant: Geo Racers, a kind of web based version of Race Across the World the TV series. It’s made by Chris Pattle – more about him here, and you can donate here. You have a limited […]
Dear Alberto, It is a little odd for me, a blogger and campaigner, to be writing an open letter to you as Executive Director of Community of European Railways (CER). But the combination of circumstances I have faced today on a cross border journey involving trains operated by two of […]
*** This post is an adapted version of one part of my #CrossChannelRail Project Final Report *** Let’s get one thing out of the way first: the problems here are nothing to do with the Avelia Horizon trains being double deck. The loading gauge in the Channel Tunnel and HS1 […]
After three weeks of research on the ground in spring 2025, dozens of follow conversations, and plenty of desk research, today I finally published the conclusions report from my #CrossChannelRail project – you can download the PDF of the report here. The stations map is also available in a zoomable […]