On Wednesday 14th January at 1100, 3 members of the Bundestag from Die Linke – Sabine Leidig, Herbert Behrens and Caren Lay – are organising a public hearing about long distance rail in Europe. The title of this is “Rückzug der Deutschen Bahn AG bei Nacht- und Autoreisezügen stoppen – […]
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How to organise a rail replacement bus service (Schienenersatzverkehr)
ICE36 train, departing 0944 from København H to Hamburg Hbf will not be able to run any further than Rødby on the Danish side of the Fehmarn Belt, and all passengers will have to board the ferry on foot instead of in the train, and take a replacement bus on […]
More from that little Nordic rail trip… Liberalisation doesn’t work
The theory of liberalisation of European railways is all very well. At one level the cross border service between København and Malmo, the Øresundstog, is a good example of it – a rail service running every 10 minutes across the bridge between Denmark and Sweden, and run by neither Swedish […]
A knock on the door telling you to get off in Dortmund – not the best rail comms
By popular demand here’s the story on my return from Billund (getting to Billund is here). It all started fine. I waited for the bus to Kolding at a freezing cold bus stop outside Lego HQ but the bus arrived, departed, and got me to Kolding with enough time for […]
Brussels-Billund – everything goes wrong and I arrive literally 2 minutes late
I knew my Brussels-Billund train journey would be an interesting story (it’s prompted a previous blog entry already), but yesterday I actually was on the rails of Europe, at a time of some of the heaviest snowfall in early December for many years. There was snow on the ground the […]
Bruxelles Midi (Belgium) to Vejle st (Denmark) by train
I need to get to Billund in Denmark for work in December, and as I’m trying to be green this year I’m going to take the train. I’m in Brussels the day before, so will leave from there, and I need to get to Vejle, the town closest to Billund […]