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Credit to one of my students at TU Braunschweig, Roland Sivonen, for discovering this one – Deutsche Bahn’s cheap Sparpreis train tickets now work correctly from Germany to Strasbourg, and some other new destinations in France as well. In this blog post I am going to explain how this change can […]
on Sep 5
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The campaign to scale up night trains Too few night trains run in Europe right now. Our demand: that the EU organise the procurement of a new fleet of night trains. This will allow cross-border overnight services to be swiftly scaled up. Why we need more night trains and how […]
on Tue, 10AM
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Back in 2015, the then chair of the Transport Committee in the European Parliament, Michael Cramer examined 15 so-called “missing links” – places where trains used to cross borders within the European Union, but no longer do. 7 years on I (Jon Worth) wondered: what has come of those missing […]
on Tue, 9AM
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(Dieser Artikel wurde mit Hilfe von Deepl aus dem Englischen übersetzt und leicht korrigiert) Der Verband Deutscher Verkehrsunternehmen (VDV) hat eine ausführliche neue Website über die Reaktivierung von Eisenbahnstrecken und einen PDF-Bericht mit weiteren Details veröffentlicht. Ein Aspekt...
on Oct 17
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VDV on cross border re-activation of lines - nice idea, details more sketchy - #CrossBorderRail
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The Verband Deutscher Verkehrsunternehmen (VDV) (Association of German Transport Companies) has a detailed new website about reactivation of railway lines, and a PDF report with more detail. And one aspect of their proposals are cross-border reactivations that they have been publicising with the...
on Oct 17
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#CrossBorderRail goes to Innotrans (only six new borders en route!) - #CrossBorderRail
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Innotrans is the world’s largest train fair for the railway industry – it happens every two years in Berlin, and this year it’s on 24-27 Setpember. And yes, I organised my move from Germany from France accordingly – to be able to go before departing Berlin for good! But it […]
on Sep 9
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So the new Régiolis trains are going to be running on France-Germany routes in “Summer 2025” according to Transport Minister, Baden-Württemberg Winfried Hermann and President of Région Grand Est, Franck Leroy. They may as well be picking dates at random. It is all because of delayed approval of...
on Aug 27
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What next for #CrossBorderRail? - #CrossBorderRail
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At the time of writing the #CrossBorderRail project has taken me to 258 international railway lines in Europe (all mapped here). Not bad for a small crowd funded project that has been going for just over two years. Through sheer perseverance and energy invested, I have somehow become the go […]
on Aug 14
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Valenciennes 🇫🇷 - Mons 🇧🇪 - #CrossBorderRail
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Missing Link Valenciennes (France) – Mons (Belgium) is a nightmare by train currently, requiring long detours via either Lille or Maubeuge. The more direct route between the two cities and onwards to Bruxelles – via Crespin and Quiévrain – is currently not possible as 2km of track are missing at […]
on Aug 10
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At the somewhat dilapidated border station Šíd (Serbia, border to Croatia) I sat and talked with the freelance journalist Thomas Roser – he is based in Beograd. This resulted in 5 articles in the German speaking press – 4 in Germany, 1 in Austria. Frankfurter Rundschau Bahn in Europa: Letzter […]
on Aug 8
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Regional rail services between France and Germany are poor, but change is supposed to be around the corner. A fleet of new Régiolis trains for the these services has been ordered and built (and I set out to find them) but when the operations of these trains will start, and […]
on Aug 3
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The railway line from Thessaloniki (Greece) to Bitola (North Macedonia) via Florina has a long history. It was completed in 1894, before the Balkan Wars in 1913 resulted in the final 17km ending up in Yugoslavia. Trains continued to run on the cross border section until 1987, and then ceased, […]
on Jul 9
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The research phase of #CrossBorderRail 2024 is done, so now it is time to start to assess what I learned. The first conclusions will be presented in a public webinar at 19:00 CEST on 9th July. You can login from 18:45, the webinar will start 19:00 sharp, and everything will […]
on Jul 9
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Rail Baltica: better informed but none the wiser - #CrossBorderRail
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There is was. The sign in the middle of nowhere: Kaisma. The village of 119 inhabitants that is to get a Rail Baltica station. The village – if you can call it that – was a little further on. A cluster of houses and a bus stop. And then even […]
on Jun 3
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Jump to: Text updates | Summary videos | Latest photos | Today’s background | Today’s route The best way to follow #CrossBorderRail as the trip develops is on social mediaThere are always posts on Mastodon (@jon@gruene.social & #CrossBorderRail) Today’s live text updates Text updates are...
on Jun 2
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Aachen 🇩🇪 - Welkenraedt 🇧🇪 - #CrossBorderRail
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Poor timetable These are the times of the main RegionalExpress (RE) trains arriving in Aachen Hbf in the middle of the morning (the same times repeat every hour all day): D. Düsseldorf Hbf 10:21 A. Aachen Hbf 11:35 RE4 via Neuss Hbf, Mönchengladbach Hbf, Herzogenrath D. Köln Hbf 10:15 A. […]
on May 26
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#CrossBorderRail South East Europe starts 26 May - how to follow the project - #CrossBorderRail
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Sunday 26 May, at about 6am, I will hop on the faithful Birdy folding bike and cycle from Ravières to Montbard – the first of about 125 stages of #CrossBorderRail. Over the 5 weeks that follow I will travel more than 13000km, and investigate 35 new railway borders, most of […]
on May 23
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6 hours by bus, or 6 hours 45 minutes by train? I’d take the train every time. More space, more comfort, freedom to move around. But were my route Zagreb to Beograd – two of the most significant cities in South East Europe – then I would be out of […]
on May 3
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A key message in all of my #CrossBorderRail work has been that some problems ought to be really easy to solve. The really, really, really easy ones ought to be the places where trains run, and even run with decent timetables, but there are data sharing problems – meaning the […]
on May 2
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With #CrossBorderRail South East Europe now just over a month away, my thoughts are turning to what (not) to take with me. This year I am going to be much more radical in terms of packing – I am not going to take a laptop with me. That’s 1.4kg removed […]
on Apr 23
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France and Germany: united in what exactly when it comes to public transport? - #CrossBorderRail
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I spent yesterday at the France-Germany border – I started in Freiburg, cycled to the human chain protest at Breisach, and cycled onwards to Colmar in France. The Association Trans Rhin Rail has been working for twelve years to try to re-open the cross border section of the Freiburg-Colmar line. […]
on Apr 15
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Previously in Yugoslavia, and today in Serbia, North Macedonia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina these locomotives are known as class 441. In Croatia they are class 1141. In Romania class 43 and 46. They are operated by Srbija Voz, TENT, MŽ, ŽFBH, ŽRS, HŽ, CFR and some private freight operators too. […]
on Apr 12
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Please use this form for general and press requests. There are different forms for events, and contributions in kind to #CrossBorderRail. For the press: I am available for interview to talk about the issues of cross border rail before, during and after the project. I can also be commissioned to […]
on Apr 10
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It’s quite rare that anyone organises a kind of protest for the re-opening of an international railway line, but that is exactly what is happening on Sunday 14 April at Breisach-Volgelsheim, the part of the Freiburg-Colmar cross border railway line that is missing. You can find out all about the […]
on Mar 27
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Jump to: Text updates | Summary videos | Latest photos | Today’s background | Today’s route The best way to follow #CrossBorderRail as the trip develops is on social media – there are always posts on Mastodon (@jon@gruene.social & #CrossBorderRail) and Bluesky (@jonworth.eu & Custom Feed) ...
on Mar 21
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Jump to: Text updates | Summary videos | Latest photos | Today’s background | Today’s route The best way to follow #CrossBorderRail as the trip develops is on social media – there are always posts on Mastodon (@jon@gruene.social & #CrossBorderRail) and Bluesky (@jonworth.eu & Custom Feed) ...
on Mar 20
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Postcards during #CrossBorderRail South East Europe 2024 - #CrossBorderRail
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During my #CrossBorderRail projects in 2022 and 2023 I sent postcards throughout the trips. In 2022 European Commissioner for Transport Adina Vălean even received a postcard from me every single day of the project! For #CrossBorderRail 2024 I am going to be repeating the postcards, with a...
on Mar 13
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Jump to: Text updates | Summary videos | Latest photos | Today’s background | Today’s route The best way to follow #CrossBorderRail as the trip develops is on social media – there are always posts on Mastodon (@jon@gruene.social & #CrossBorderRail) and Bluesky (@jonworth.eu & Custom Feed) ...
on Mar 3
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You have to give credit to the people that have kept the campaign for the re-activation of the Freiburg – Breisach – Volgelsheim – Colmar railway line alive. For a decade they’ve been campaigning, and the next step is a day of action on 14th April – where they aim […]
on Feb 7
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3 of the #CrossBorderRail Top 20 projects now solved - #CrossBorderRail
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The motivation for the whole #CrossBorderRail project was to assess why there had been such meagre progress fixing the 15 missing links Michael Cramer had proposed in his 2015 report. Only 1 of the 15 from Cramer’s list – Selb-Plößberg (Germany) to Aš (Czechia) – has so far been fixed. […]
on Feb 5
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The Top 20 - the first conclusions from 2022 - #CrossBorderRail
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The first conclusions of the 2022 #CrossBorderRail project were presented on 29th August 2022 in Berlin. The most important document is the PDF that summarises the “Top 20” projects where there is the most potential. Also potentially useful are the slides that were presented, and the press...
on Feb 5
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South East Europe 2024 - #CrossBorderRail
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In 2022 (Main project) and 2023 (Germany borders, Autumn project) my focus was on internal borders of the European Union. In 2024 I will instead look at non-EU Europe, starting in South East Europe in May. The borders of Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Montenegro, North Macedonia and...
on Jan 9
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In the summer of 2022 I crossed every internal border of the EU you can cross by train. Every pair of countries where there is or was a railway line, I crossed it at least once. That was a total of 83 borders. Since then with follow up Extra Days, […]
on Jan 3
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#CrossBorderRail The Board Game - #CrossBorderRail
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In mid December 2023 I was working on a documentary with a Dutch film crew and the producer asked me “Jon, did you ever think of making a board game to explain the problems with international rail in Europe?” I had not ever thought of that, but then my mind […]
on Dec 21
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South East Europe 2024 - #CrossBorderRail
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In 2022 (Main project) and 2023 (Germany borders, Autumn project) my focus was on internal borders of the European Union. In 2024 I will instead look at non-EU Europe, starting in South East Europe in May. The borders of Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Montenegro, North Macedonia and...
on Dec 5
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I’m writing this blog post at my desk in Berlin, back home after the final part of my Autumn 2023 #CrossBorderRail journey. The past 10 days have taken me to Slovenia’s borders, then via Karlsruhe through France to Spain and Portugal, and then via Santiago to Compostela and Portugal again, […]
on Oct 30, 2023
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Live Blog - Autumn 2023 Day 29, 29 Oct, Hendaye - Paris - Mannheim - Berlin - #CrossBorderRail
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Jump to: Text updates | Summary videos | Latest photos | Today’s background | Today’s route The best way to follow #CrossBorderRail as the trip develops is on social media – there are always posts on Mastodon (@jon@gruene.social & #CrossBorderRail) and Bluesky (@jonworth.eu & Custom Feed) ...
on Oct 29, 2023
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Jump to: Text updates | Summary videos | Latest photos | Today’s background | Today’s route The best way to follow #CrossBorderRail as the trip develops is on social media – there are always posts on Mastodon (@jon@gruene.social & #CrossBorderRail) and Bluesky (@jonworth.eu & Custom Feed) ...
on Oct 28, 2023
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Jump to: Text updates | Summary videos | Latest photos | Today’s background | Today’s route The best way to follow #CrossBorderRail as the trip develops is on social media – there are always posts on Mastodon (@jon@gruene.social & #CrossBorderRail) and Bluesky (@jonworth.eu & Custom Feed) ...
on Oct 27, 2023
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Jump to: Text updates | Summary videos | Latest photos | Today’s background | Today’s route The best way to follow #CrossBorderRail as the trip develops is on social media – there are always posts on Mastodon (@jon@gruene.social & #CrossBorderRail) and Bluesky (@jonworth.eu & Custom Feed) ...
on Oct 26, 2023
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Live Blog - Autumn 2023 Day 25, 24 Oct, Lisboa - Nine - Vigo-Guixar - #CrossBorderRail
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Jump to: Text updates | Summary videos | Latest photos | Today’s background | Today’s route The best way to follow #CrossBorderRail as the trip develops is on social media – there are always posts on Mastodon (@jon@gruene.social & #CrossBorderRail) and Bluesky (@jonworth.eu & Custom Feed) ...
on Oct 24, 2023
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Jump to: Text updates | Summary videos | Latest photos | Today’s background | Today’s route The best way to follow #CrossBorderRail as the trip develops is on social media – there are always posts on Mastodon (@jon@gruene.social & #CrossBorderRail) and Bluesky (@jonworth.eu & Custom Feed) ...
on Oct 23, 2023
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Jump to: Text updates | Summary videos | Latest photos | Today’s background | Today’s route The best way to follow #CrossBorderRail as the trip develops is on social media – there are always posts on Mastodon (@jon@gruene.social & #CrossBorderRail) and Bluesky (@jonworth.eu & Custom Feed) ...
on Oct 22, 2023
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Jump to: Text updates | Summary videos | Latest photos | Today’s background | Today’s route The best way to follow #CrossBorderRail as the trip develops is on social media – there are always posts on Mastodon (@jon@gruene.social & #CrossBorderRail) and Bluesky (@jonworth.eu & Custom Feed) ...
on Oct 20, 2023
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Jump to: Text updates | Summary videos | Latest photos | Today’s background | Today’s route The best way to follow #CrossBorderRail as the trip develops is on social media – there are always posts on Mastodon (@jon@gruene.social & #CrossBorderRail) and Bluesky (@jonworth.eu & Custom Feed) ...
on Oct 19, 2023
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Jump to: Text updates | Summary videos | Latest photos | Today’s background | Today’s route The best way to follow #CrossBorderRail as the trip develops is on social media – there are always posts on Mastodon (@jon@gruene.social & #CrossBorderRail) and Bluesky (@jonworth.eu & Custom Feed) ...
on Oct 18, 2023
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Jump to: Text updates | Summary videos | Latest photos | Today’s background | Today’s route The best way to follow #CrossBorderRail as the trip develops is on social media – there are always posts on Mastodon (@jon@gruene.social & #CrossBorderRail) and Bluesky (@jonworth.eu & Custom Feed) ...
on Oct 17, 2023
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This one has been long in the planning, and we’ve now only finally got everything together a week ahead, but I am happy to announce the #CrossBorderRail event at the Slovenian Railway Museum, Ljubljana, on Wednesday 18 October from 17:00 CEST (map). The event is organised together with the British […]
on Oct 11, 2023
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Jump to: Text updates | Summary videos | Latest photos | Today’s background | Today’s route Text updates Text updates are auto-generated from Mastodon – follow me on Mastodon here: gruene.social/@jon Jump to: Text updates | Summary videos | Latest photos | Today’s background | Today’s route ...
on Oct 5, 2023