Competition - Jon Worth

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A collection of 3 posts

Locomore lives again - with Czech partners and support from Flixbus

I started writing this blog enty sat aboard the first Locomore / Leo Express / Flixtrain / Flixbus service, departing at 1419 on 24th August from Berlin Lichtenberg to Stuttgart. I was only going as far as Berlin Hauptbahnhof, but that's enough time to test the onboard wifi. Solid so far

Thalys IZY: market segmentation is not the same as competition

So Thalys - whose rail service always strikes me as the worst combination of anglo-saxon economics and Belgian service - has a new wheeze. A new, lower cost, but slower train between Paris and Brussels, branded IZY (Easy - geddit?) It's like Thalys's version of OUIGO,

A rail postcard from Baden Baden

Dear Violeta, Have you ever changed trains in Baden Baden (in Baden-Württemberg between Freiburg (Breisgau) and Karlsruhe)? I guess not. It's a pretty unlikely place to have to hop off a TGV and onto a ICE, but that's what I had to do there today -