Rail liberalisation - Jon Worth

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Rail liberalisation

A collection of 2 posts

The EU should place a blanket ban on trains being scrapped

This week we learned that part of Europe's night train renaissance is going to be built on... some couchette carriages that date from 1965. Yes you read that right - some 56 year old carriages are going to be deployed by ÖBB for its new Wien-Paris night train.

The prerequisites to make a liberalised EU rail market work

After having been stuck again this morning due to lack of collaboration between EU rail firms, I started to wonder: can liberalisation of EU rail actually ever work? And, were it to ever work, what are the prerequisites to making it work? The blog entry tries to at least pose