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Taking apart Euronews’s puff piece about the new TGVs

One of the aims of this new “Quick takes” category here is for me to write things something longer than a toot or tweet, but not as well thought out as longer-form blog posts. So here goes. This toot – boosted into my Mastodon home feed by Aarne Granlund this[Read More…]

18.02.2023 0 comments

Why securing Europe’s railways against terrorism shouldn’t be attempted

So apparently this morning Ségolène Royal, Minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy, has announced that security gates will be built to access Thalys trains: https://twitter.com/jul_mm/status/669058150729957377 De Telegraaf interprets this as meaning bag scanners, going further than La Voix du Nord does (although their story also says the gates (portiques)[Read More…]

24.11.2015 2 comments

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We now have no idea what’s happening with Brussels-Strasbourg TGVs

This blog entry was published on 2nd November, and remains intact below. However, two things have happened since then. First, the Eckwersheim Derailment has led to the suspension of all TGV tests, and will mean the part of the LGV Est that the Brussels-Strasbourg service will use will not open[Read More…]

02.11.2015 0 comments

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Not always the cheapest train in France, and a sneaky 50 cent Belgian charge

A couple of weeks ago Seat61 had the splash that booking cross-border France-Spain TGVs would cost you more on French language websites than anywhere else (Seat61’s news page here – you have to scroll down as he has no link to individual stories). After a bit of a furore that[Read More…]

07.10.2015 0 comments

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France’s LGV Rhin-Rhône best serves… Paris. So much for high speed lines of regional importance!

Back when the Rhine-Rhône high speed TGV line (in French: LGV Rhin-Rhône) was being planned it was described that “In contrast to France’s other high speed lines — apart from the bypass round the east of Paris — LGV Rhin-Rhône was conceived primarily as an inter-regional route and not as[Read More…]

20.04.2015 1 comment

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Taking the train rather than the plane for business travel in Europe: does it work?

Anyone who follows me on Twitter will know I take the train for almost all my journeys, and many of these are business trips. Sean Hanley has asked me to sum up my experiences in a blog entry, so here goes. This post should be read in conjunction with the[Read More…]

25.07.2013 4 comments

Paris, 114 km

The early spring sunshine is setting behind a straggle of clouds strewn across the agricultural plains of that non-descript part of France somewhere between Bourgogne and Paris. In the blink of an eye we’ll be looping around Paris and heading north to Brussels. But before that, a pause, for this[Read More…]

03.04.2010 0 comments

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Taking apart Euronews’s puff piece about the new TGVs

Why securing Europe’s railways against terrorism shouldn’t be attempted

We now have no idea what’s happening with Brussels-Strasbourg TGVs

Not always the cheapest train in France, and a sneaky 50 cent Belgian charge

France’s LGV Rhin-Rhône best serves… Paris. So much for high speed lines of regional importance!

Taking the train rather than the plane for business travel in Europe: does it work?

Paris, 114 km

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