Jon Worth – Page 3 – Independent railway commentator

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Analysis, European Union, France, Germany, United Kingdom

Abandoned luggage on trains, and the presumption of innocence

08.04.2024 1 comment

Once – in all my years travelling by rail – I left a bag on a train by mistake. It was sometime between 2005 and 2007 when I was working in both London and Sunningdale (50 mins west of London), and unusually I had a bag with a suit in […]

Analysis, Portugal, Spain

No amount of investment in infrastructure can save rail companies from themselves

29.03.2024 2 comments

Wolfgang Cramer is a long time connection of mine on social media. He is obsessed about reducing his carbon footprint, and travels pretty much everywhere by train and bike, so you can see why I get along with him. He has thousands of kilometres of rail travel, Europe-wide, behind him. […]

Analysis, Belgium, Germany, Ticketing

Should Deutsche Bahn be obliged to sell tickets of private rivals in DB Navigator?

29.03.2024 1 comment

It was in the news this week that night train startup European Sleeper has contacted the Bundeskartellamt (Federal Cartel Office) in Germany over Deutsche Bahn’s refusal to sell its tickets on bahn.de and in its DB Navigator app. I can see European Sleeper’s point of view very clearly here – […]

Analysis, Austria, European Union, France, Germany

If you reduced track access charges in European passenger rail, very little would happen – at least short term

28.03.2024 6 comments

Transport & Environment, Allrail, Trainline and some private railway companies and ticket sellers have released a letter (PDF here) to the European Commission calling for a reduction in track access charges for passenger trains. They specifically mention “trains with high capacity” (whatever that means exactly – run fewer, larger trains?), […]

Analysis, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland

Yield management and compulsory reservation – how much of each should we tolerate in railways?

23.03.2024 5 comments

Is taking a train something you do every day, rivaling a car? Something flexible, you just get on and go? Or is it something you do less regularly? Something where you plan, that you know long ahead where and when you will travel? More similar to how most people take […]

Albania, Analysis, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, European Union, Greece, Hungary, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia

#CrossBorderRail South East Europe – crowdfunding now open

11.03.2024 0 comments

Since embarking on my first #CrossBorderRail tour in the summer of 2022 and follow up smaller tours in 2023, internal railway borders of the European Union have been my prime focus – and so far I have been to exactly 200 borders (you can see them all mapped here – […]

Latest Posts

Abandoned luggage on trains, and the presumption of innocence

No amount of investment in infrastructure can save rail companies from themselves

Should Deutsche Bahn be obliged to sell tickets of private rivals in DB Navigator?

If you reduced track access charges in European passenger rail, very little would happen – at least short term

Yield management and compulsory reservation – how much of each should we tolerate in railways?

#CrossBorderRail South East Europe – crowdfunding now open

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