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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 -

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

A previous trip to Gorizia - Nova Gorica

One of the joys of preparing the website for this project has been to look back over the pictures taken at previous trips to some of these borders within the EU. Gorizia (IT) - Nova Gorica (SI) is one of the most fascinating, not least because the border between the

#BerlinBledBerlin trip report

#BerlinBledBerlin trip report

I am writing this blog post at the end of a 5 day trip from Berlin to Bled in Slovenia by train and back, through the 4th wave of the COVID pandemic and crossing Austria in lockdown. I've been tweeting about the trip as I went along on

Europe's empty publicity train - the Connecting Europe Express - reaches the end of the line

Europe's empty publicity train - the Connecting Europe Express - reaches the end of the line

On Thursday 7th October the EU Year of Rail "Connecting Europe Express" reaches its final stop in Paris after a month criss-crossing Europe. If ever a tweet summed up the emptiness, the hollowness, of this train, it was this by Community of European Railways' Yann Seimandi: https:

I'll be on the #ConnectingEurope Express - Kraków to Ljubljana

I'll be on the #ConnectingEurope Express - Kraków to Ljubljana

2021 is the EU Year of Rail, and so the European Commission DG MOVE and Community of European Railways are running the "Connecting Europe Express" in September and October to try to show what rail can do for Europe and for the green transition. The train departed from

More transparency needed - an EU citizen can't currently know when and where Schengen is suspended

On Thursday 29th October I am taking the train from Berlin to Vienna, via Nürnberg. This means I will cross the German - Austrian border at Passau. But what is the status of that border at the moment? Is Schengen suspended there, or not? This is a valid question to

Ljubljana

A dusting of snow covered the peaks at Jesenice after crossing the border from Austria into Slovenia yesterday lunchtime. A 1970s Yugoslav coach on the Eurocity from München, replete with pee-onto-the-tracks toilets, creaked and groaned over the old lines through Lesce Bled and Kranj and a warm afternoon sun softened