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Simple international trips, and the failures of ticket booking platforms

I am at World Passengers’ Festival in Vienna today, and four ticket vendors are here: Trip.com, Trainline, Rail Europe and All Aboard. So, I wondered, how do these platforms do with some pretty simple international journeys? And based on this research I am going to go to their stands here[Read More…]

04.10.2023 0 comments

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Kulturzug slides – Kulturzug Folien – Slajdy Kuulturzug

Due to the overcrowding of the Kulturzug, all passengers are asked to download the slides onto their own phones. Click here to download the PDF. Aufgrund der Überfüllung des Kulturzuges werden alle Fahrgäste gebeten, die Dias auf ihre eigenen Handys herunterzuladen. Klicke hier, um das PDF herunterzuladen. Ze względu na[Read More…]

30.09.2023 0 comments

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Policy proposals to fix Europe’s railways

My previous post was a kind of hopeless “well we know the problems with railways, but what do we do?” Here – and motivated by Justin Scholz who has been pushing me to write this sort of thing for months – here are a series of policy proposals to fix[Read More…]

20.09.2023 0 comments

We know what’s wrong with European railways. Mostly. But how do we fix it?

Another day, another depressing study. Greenpeace looked at rail and motorway investments across Europe, and found 66 % more budget spent to extend roads than to extend railways. Between 1995 and 2018 there was a 60% increase in the length of Europe’s motorways – more than 30,000 km – while[Read More…]

20.09.2023 0 comments

The #CrossBorderRail plans for autumn 2023, and some press coverage

So far one EU country with a railway has been missing from my #CrossBorderRail project – Ireland. Because it only has a railway border to a non-EU Member State. But this autumn I am finally putting that right! Ireland and France aim to make it possible to travel between the[Read More…]

24.08.2023 1 comment

How do you even say “Takt” for a timetable in English?

I am doing some comparative research about railways in Europe this summer and that has led me to the question: what makes a good train timetable? And that then leads inevitably to a Taktfahplan or, better still, a Integraler Taktfahplan (German language Wikipedia here) By which point I have lost[Read More…]

16.08.2023 4 comments

Running for the European Parliament election list for the German Grüne

For most of the past two years I have poured all of my political energy into transport policy topics – the Trains for Europe campaign, and the #CrossBorderRail project. And this website that has become a kind of hub for my railway commentary. At one level that has all worked[Read More…]

02.08.2023 1 comment

If there’s to be a rival to Eurostar through the Channel Tunnel, it’s not going to be Mobico with new trains in 2025

The FT reported a couple of days ago that Mobico (the new name for National Express) wants to run trains through the Channel Tunnel, rivalling Eurostar, and to do that by 2025 using new trains built by Alstom. Mobico’s share price is up this morning based on the news. The[Read More…]

31.07.2023 0 comments

Where is the sense of urgency in international rail in the EU? I can’t see it

Party! From 28 July there will be 4 trains a day each way on the Figueres – Perpignan cross border high speed line! A doubling of the services! Renfe’s entry into the French market! Eh, hang on. 4 trains a day each way on a dual track electrified line capable[Read More…]

19.06.2023 4 comments

Turning it around – could you make the use of Berlin’s streets better for everyone?

That the removal of just one car parking space can in the future be enough to stop a bicycle infrastructure project in Berlin has of course led to justifiable howls of critique. A car friendly transport policy is what you get from a city administration run by the CDU (and[Read More…]

16.06.2023 1 comment

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Simple international trips, and the failures of ticket booking platforms

Kulturzug slides – Kulturzug Folien – Slajdy Kuulturzug

Policy proposals to fix Europe’s railways

We know what’s wrong with European railways. Mostly. But how do we fix it?

The #CrossBorderRail plans for autumn 2023, and some press coverage

How do you even say “Takt” for a timetable in English?

Running for the European Parliament election list for the German Grüne

If there’s to be a rival to Eurostar through the Channel Tunnel, it’s not going to be Mobico with new trains in 2025

Where is the sense of urgency in international rail in the EU? I can’t see it

Turning it around – could you make the use of Berlin’s streets better for everyone?

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Simple international trips, and the failures of ticket booking platforms

Kulturzug slides – Kulturzug Folien – Slajdy Kuulturzug

Policy proposals to fix Europe’s railways

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A diagram to explain EU cross border rail passengers rights – and to push for political change

Germany’s 49 Euro Ticket Deutschlandticket – a FAQ

How to use Deutsche Bahn’s De Connect tickets for train trips between Germany and London

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Strasbourg? Karlsruhe? No – Saarbrücken? Where the future Paris-Berlin ICE stops is not the issue

Toute l’Europe – a future night train map that’s very, very bad

TimeOut makes a right hash of the new Milano-München trains story

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Quoted in the FT “‘We are full’: the rebirth of Europe’s sleeper trains”

Meeting Michael Peterson with Die Zeit, and quoted by CNN about shift from planes to trains

Quoted in Berliner Zeitung about the Brenner pilot project

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