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Damn, there's always some new #CrossBorderRail headache... 😡 New timetable for 2026 means a better connection from Berlin to Nuits-sous-Ravières Or so I thought 07:06 Berlin-Strasbourg 12:51 on ICE 9590 13:05 Strasbourg-Dijon 15:11 on TGV 9879 15:35 Dijon-Nuits 16:21 on TER 17760 DB shows this to me:

So the Basel-Malmö night train did not get a subsidy to even get it started But a 3x a week service with knackered carriages is not much good anyway Small pots are cash are no solution here - we need to look at the fundamentals of European night trains! #CrossBorderRail Blog post 👇

Jon Worth

A little short term subsidy for this or that route is no way to support night trains – lessons from the end of Basel-Malmö before it even started

So there will not be a Basel - Malmö night train from the spring of 2026. Switzerland's parliament did not approve the subsidy to allow it to...

🎉 Some important #CrossBorderRail news! 🎉 After thinking about the idea for more than a decade (yeah, this is later than a DB train!) I am finally starting to plan building a railway organisation for lobbying work, and @Patrick Dersjant RCX @npub19er8...p8au & @npub1djpe...rt24 are in from the start. We're sort of soft launching today Details 👇

Jon Worth

European Rail Passengers Union: lobbying for passengers, cross border

It has been something in the back of my mind for more than a decade: how could railway passengers be better represented to campaign for improvement...

OK, let's try this test with another link!

Jon Worth

Geo Racers: the most fun web travel game since GeoGuessr

I was sent this a few hours ago in a messenger group, and it's brilliant: Geo Racers, a kind of web based version of Race Across the World the...

24 of the 27 European Commissioners are still posting on X Leaving ought to be a moral imperative, especially after what has happened in the past week A little overview on my blog:

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Musk wants to abolish the EU, while European Commissioners keep posting on X

Transatlantic geopolitical battles came to a head this past week, as the European Commission finally fined X €120 million under the Digital Servi...

Euronews versucht zu erklären, was DB und Eurostar diese Woche vereinbart haben. Und verdammt, das ist völliger Unsinn.

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In fünf Stunden von Frankfurt nach London: Wann starten die Direktzüge

Anfang des Jahres stellte man Pläne für direkte Zugverbindungen zwischen Deutschland und dem Vereinigten Königreich vor. Wie weit ist das Projek...

Warum sind die Medien nicht in der Lage, grundlegende Fakten zu überprüfen? #CrossChannelRail

Further to that “why are French railway station platform numbers so confusing” I present you: Laroche Migennes 3 platforms with a 1 2 platforms with a 2 And J Obviously! Oh and 1Bis on the sign is 1B in the app. Which is helpful!

- Terrible timetables - Under utilisation of cross border infrastructure - Compulsory reservation - Issues with language regime for train drivers - Total pain with Interrail - Sky high prices on international routes - The biggest headaches with approval of rolling stock - Under investment in non high speed infra - Super slow move to ETCS - Sour relations with neighbouring railways Pretty much ALL the problems of European rail are problems with FRANCE