Maybe it’s the winter season, or perhaps it’s just bad luck, but two friends of mine are currently wrestling with airline customer services to get compensation – one for luggage lost for a fortnight, and another for a long delay. There is one clear lesson from my huge Wizzair delays […]
Analysis
The demise of CityNightLine
A goods train derailed in southern Jutland on Friday last week and, as can be seen from the picture from the local newspaper, it was on a single track line section between Padborg and Kolding, meaning the whole connection between Hamburg and Jutland is blocked. The wagons were dragged between […]
OK, so Schengen is a myth. Systematic checks on the train leaving France are OK according to the Commission.
Back on 9th October I documented a non-Schengen compliant border control that took place on a train between St Jean de Maurienne and Modane – see the full details here. I put all that information into a full and official complaint to the European Commission, and today (about 2 weeks […]
A little Nordic rail trip
I will be making what should be a reasonably simple rail trip in early December – the 600km journey between Copenhagen (station: København H) and Oslo (station: Oslo S). So how do I do it? Well, it turns out that it is all nowhere as simple as it should be. […]
Non-Schengen compliant border control between St Jean de Maurienne and Modane, 9th October 2012, 1240
Four French police boarded the front carriage of the 0749 Paris Gare de Lyon – Milano Garibaldi TGV at St Jean de Maurienne on 9th October. The train was running with a delay of around 55 minutes, hence departing from St Jean at around 1230. At 1240 the four police […]
Schengen: what can they ask, and what am I obliged to tell?
Bleary eyed and grumpy last week due to a delayed night train, I was nevertheless rather surprised when a Danish policeman demanded to see my passport abord the night train to København H at Padborg (border station from Germany). When I asked him why and how he was demanding this […]