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No Villa Opicina - Divača - Pivka - Rijeka trains in 2025, no re-launch date known

Launched with some fanfare in the summer of 2024 (see The Times and Kurier that covered it for example), the "Trieste" - Rijeka international train service is no more. The train will not run in 2025, and there is no known date for the resumption of the route.

From Turmantas to Nova Gorica - #CrossBorderRail improvements due in 2025

From Turmantas to Nova Gorica - #CrossBorderRail improvements due in 2025

All of the borders listed are places I have been, and are among my priority borders where problems need to be fixed. I cannot claim credit for having solved any of these, but I am quite sure me repeatedly talking about them - especially Turmantas! - has likely not been

Somewhere between hell and hype(r-loop) - where our railway discussion ought to be

Somewhere between hell and hype(r-loop) - where our railway discussion ought to be

Another day, and another stream of railway news pops up in my social media feed. On the hell side - unsurprisingly from Germany - comes news that the situation for passengers at München Hbf continues to worsen, while DB has closed the Hamburg-Berlin line for 4 months for works, something

#CrossBorderRail South East Europe - crowdfunding now open

#CrossBorderRail South East Europe - crowdfunding now open

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 -

Deutschlandfunk and Süddeutsche Zeitung about railway ticketing, and a niche slow train in Croatia

Deutschlandfunk and Süddeutsche Zeitung about railway ticketing, and a niche slow train in Croatia

Warum Bahnfahren in Europa oft so kompliziert ist Mal eben schnell mit ein paar Klicks buchen, das funktioniert nicht. Aber ein paar Tricks gibt es doch, um schneller oder zumindest maximal günstig an eine Fahrkarte zu kommen. "Man sollte die Planung von der Buchung trennen", sagt Jon Worth.

The best #CrossBorderRail lines to visit

The best #CrossBorderRail lines to visit

#CrossBorderRail is a very political project - to push for better international railway connections between European countries. But one of the things that makes the project so fun is that it has taken me to some wonderful places amongst the 130 borders I have crossed in the past 12 months

Skyscanner for rail? Before we can even build such a thing we need a European rail timetable

Skyscanner for rail? Before we can even build such a thing we need a European rail timetable

In as far as there is a debate about the problems of cross border railways in Europe, one question crops up over and over: "why is there no Skyscanner for rail?" If one website can aggregate all the flights in Europe and allow a customer to compare prices

How to repair Serbia's railways? A report

How to repair Serbia's railways? A report

On 30th June 2021 I was a speaker at the Transport Community and Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Rail Summer School in Belgrade. There's just one caveat, I told Matej Zakonjšek the Director of Transport Community who invited me: I am going to make the trip to Belgrade from Berlin