Welcome to today's thread - 2025 #CrossBorderRail Conclusions Tour Day 13 - Brugge - Bruxelles - Köln - Berlin Today's new borders: None Today's re-visited borders: Aachen 🇩🇪 - Welkenraedt 🇧🇪 Borders map, inc. borders re-visited […] [Original post on gruene.social]

We have some concrete figures on the RATP bid that won the contract for local trains around Caen against the SNCF: 50% increase in train-km for no increase in cost […]

This is lucid and excellent. Found via @prefec2 https://www.techdirt.com/2025/09/30/how-americas-business-elite-became-their-own-marxist-caricature/

Welcome to today's thread - 2025 #CrossBorderRail Conclusions Tour Day 12 - Bruxelles - Gent - Eeklo - Brugge Today's new borders: Former 1000mm tramway - Watervliet 🇧🇪 - Ijzendijke 🇳🇱 Former 1000mm tramway - Maldegem 🇧🇪 - Eede 🇳🇱 Former 1000mm tramway - […] [Original post on gruene.social]

Last minute thing : Right now I can’t benefit of my passenger rights on a connection for Christmas because the first segment, TGV, has to be booked right now, but the connecting TER bus in PACA only open much later (like on the day of the timetable change).

Good morning from a foggy Bruxelles! On today's agenda: meetings about the forthcoming legislative proposal from the European Commission about rail ticketing, and I am presenting my #CrossBorderRail work at DG Regio of the Commission

I am so effing sick of Community of European Railways blaming rail’s problems on everyone else having tax advantages rail doesn’t have. It’s not untrue. BUT rail has to get its own house in order!

As I am making a presentation to European Commission officials tomorrow, and the Commission *loves* the idea of re-gauging railways, I thought it was high time to write up why it's mostly a bad idea Explained in depth here! 👇 […]

SNCF press release on the Paris-Berlin/Vienna night train cancellation. Basically "none of it is our fault!" https://www.sncf-voyageurs.com/fr/presse/trains-de-nuit-paris-vienne-et-paris-berlin

It's always fun to witness the implicit agreement between graffiti artists and train engineers - don't screw with the important markings and we won't screw with your graffiti (on cargo trains at least).

@jon @cdamian Because high speed is shiny! And who would want to continue past Madrid to visit family in Galicia or Asturias anyway?

@jon FWIW Trenitalia have finally fixed ticketing on the Ventimiglia - Cuneo line so they can now do cabotage and sell tickets within France and between France and Italy The SNCF of course has ignored this :)

Welcome to today's thread - 2025 #CrossBorderRail Conclusions Tour Day 11 - Berlin - Aachen - Maastricht - Liège - Bruxelles Today's re-visited borders: Herzogenrath 🇩🇪 - Eygelshoven Markt 🇳🇱 Visé 🇧🇪 - Eijsden 🇳🇱 Borders map, inc. borders re-visited […] [Original post on gruene.social]

Off to speak at Back on Track‘s conference about Night Trains in Berlin. By bike of course 😀

When the PC powering the LCD screens on your building has crashed 😀

Also compare all the SNCF Nightjet stuff to what DB is doing in December https://www.deutschebahn.com/de/presse/pressestart_zentrales_uebersicht/Fahrplan-2026-Halbstundentakt-jetzt-fuer-21-Staedte-13563846 Sure, half these trains will run late, but THEY'RE TRYING. THEY *LIKE* RUNNING TRAINS […]

And I got a request yesterday to do a radio interview in French about this night train cancellation stuff, and I confirmed The interview was to happen today at 17:00 Because it is in French, the language I am least used to using for things like this I prepared And then... ... nothing. No […]

😡 The way Le Monde covers this cancellation of the Paris-Wien/Berlin night trains is so poor https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2025/09/25/les-trains-de-nuit-paris-berlin-et-paris-vienne-menaces-faute-de-subvention-de-l-etat_6642929_3234.html If was losing money, they allege, and the […]

There’s probably no, errr Gottlob. Now stop worrying and enjoy your coffee! (Cash only, because Berlin)

The rules of SNCF 1️⃣ We dislike running any train that goes at less than 300km/h 2️⃣ We dislike it *even more* if someone else would like to run trains instead of us (See reactions to RATP winning a contract for TERs in Normandie, today’s argument about Paris NightJet cancellation)

And today's bad #CrossBorderRail news: the Paris-Berlin/Vienna night train might be axed from December What's happening, and why SNCF never really cared about this train, but why alternatives are tricky, explained on my blog 👇 […]

So it was announced in September 2024 the #CrossBorderRail Régiolis fleet would enter service on France-Germany routes in "summer 2025" https://www.railwaygazette.com/grand-est-cross-border-fleet-poised-to-enter-service/67335.article It's now autumn. And we don't even have a start date 🤷‍♂️ […]

Welcome to today's thread - 2025 #CrossBorderRail Conclusions Tour Day 10 - Budapest - Wien – Berlin Today's new borders: None Today's re-visited borders: Nickelsdorf 🇦🇹 - Hegyeshalom 🇭🇺 Passau 🇩🇪 - Wernstein 🇦🇹 Borders map, inc. borders re-visited […] [Original post on gruene.social]

Welcome to today's thread - 2025 #CrossBorderRail Conclusions Tour Day 09 - Kiskunhalas - Bácsalmás - Hercegszántó - Baja - Budapest Today's new borders: Katymár 🇭🇺 - Ridjica 🇷🇸 Gara 🇭🇺 - Ridjica 🇷🇸 Hercegszántó 🇭🇺 - Backi Breg 🇷🇸 Borders map, inc. borders […] [Original post on gruene.social]

Damn this is bitter DB InfraGo not looking after its bridges, and Bayern and the Bund refusing to invest properly to upgrade and electrify the line, means Nürnberg - Bayreuth/Marktredwitz (with cross border implications to Cheb) will be closed at least until February […]

Hello from Novi Sad Today there isn’t going to be much of a #CrossBorderRail live thread throughout the day but there will be conclusions later It’s a calm late summer day here just now

Welcome to today's thread - 2025 #CrossBorderRail Conclusions Tour Day 07 - Arrival of night train, Budapest-Keleti - Szeged - Subotica Today's re-visited borders: Freilassing 🇩🇪 - Salzburg Taxham Europapark 🇦🇹 Nickelsdorf 🇦🇹 - Hegyeshalom 🇭🇺 Röszke 🇭🇺 - […] [Original post on gruene.social]

Ein #Riesbahn-Zug in Aalen -- zurzeit ein eher seltener Anblick, denn seit einigen Wochen haben die Probleme auf der Strecke ein völlig neues Level erreicht. Zu der seit 2022 bestehenden Störung im Bahnhof Lauchheim sind mehrere Langsamfahrstellen sowie aktuell […] [Original post on det.social]

Welcome to today's thread - 2025 #CrossBorderRail Conclusions Tour Day 06 - Mannheim - Karlsruhe - Wintersdorf - München, Onto night train Today's re-visited borders: Wintersdorf 🇩🇪 - Roppenheim 🇫🇷 Borders map, inc. borders re-visited […] [Original post on gruene.social]

Welcome to today's thread - 2025 #CrossBorderRail Conclusions Tour Day 05 - Bruxelles - Köln - Koblenz - Merzig - Waldwisse - Völklingen - Überherrn - Merlebach - Saarbrücken - Ludwigshafen New borders: Silwingen 🇩🇪 - Waldwisse 🇫🇷 Überherrn 🇩🇪 - Hargarten-Falck 🇫🇷 Former 1435mm tramway - […]

I need to get to Cluny (Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France) to give a speech about rural cross border public transport... ... and yeah, you guessed it, most of the trains Nuits-sous-Ravières - Dijon - Mâcon do not connect with buses from Mâcon to […] [Original post on gruene.social]

Today is not about railways Filigranes sells ATOMANIA 😍 Been wanting this book for ages

In light of @pallenberg having content about Jimmy Kimmel removed from LinkedIn, I've written about the topic of Europeans problematic use of US commercial social networks in the era of Trump […]

@jon having made a fair number of french transfers yesterday this is particularly painful to see 1) disembark your train, walk past the fenced off underpass, squeeze through the portiques to the entrance hall 2) wait 20 minutes staring at the information screens for the platform for your next […]

Welcome to today's thread - 2025 #CrossBorderRail Conclusions Tour Day 04 - Praha - Bayerisch Eisenstein - Plattling - Frankfurt - Bruxelles Today's new borders: None Today's re-visited borders: Bayerisch Eisenstein 🇩🇪 - Železná Ruda-Alžbetin 🇨🇿 Aachen 🇩🇪 - […] [Original post on gruene.social]

Welcome to today's thread - 2025 #CrossBorderRail Conclusions Tour Day 03 - Praha - Zábřeh na Moravě - Lipová Lázně - Bernartice u Javorníka - Nysa - Brzeg - Wrocław - Praha Today's new borders: Kalków Laka 🇵🇱 - Vidnava 🇨🇿 Dziewietlice 🇵🇱 - Bernartice u […] [Original post on gruene.social]

Welcome to today's thread - 2025 #CrossBorderRail Conclusions Tour Day 02 - Marktredwitz - Cheb - Praha Today's re-visited borders: Schirnding 🇩🇪 - Pomezí nad Ohrí 🇨🇿 Borders map, inc. borders re-visited […] [Original post on gruene.social]

Oh, this one is new, @jon : When buying third party tickets via DB Navigator they now explicitly say it's a through-ticket with only one transport contract. I remember railways in past always tried to argue legs with multiple ticket issuers were supposed to be […] [Original post on zug.network]

@jon have i extolled the virtues of the RFI's equivalent for Italy? https://iechub.rfi.it/ArriviPartenze/en/ArrivalsDepartures/Home extremely retro but it's the only one I have found that lists all departures and platforms.

Welcome to today's thread - 2025 #CrossBorderRail Conclusions Tour Day 01 - Ravières - Montbard - Paris - Stuttgart - Nürnberg - Marktredwitz Today's re-visited borders: Kehl 🇩🇪 - Krimmeri-Meinau 🇫🇷 (how long will Dobrindt’s ridiculous controls delay my […] [Original post on gruene.social]

#CrossBorderRail the conclusions tour is starting Monday And I’m trying to mount a camera bag on the Birdy in a way the camera at hand when I need it - it’ll go where shown in pic 3. Putting the mount here doesn’t mess with the fold But no manufacturer makes […] [Original post on gruene.social]

If you want some light entertainment today, it's tram drivers's world cup - live from Vienna on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smp0voLUgk8

Based on lots of feedback (and some pretty niche complaints!) about earlier versions of the #Schengen and borders ID diagram, I am now up to version 1.3.0 This one better covers ETA for UK, exceptions for Irish, and explains some other cases better These […] [Original post on gruene.social]

So @malte asked me how I cope when subjected to non- #Schengen compliant border controls on #CrossBorderRail Well that needs a diagram! 😀 And it is a bit complex! Generalised for all sorts of land and sea borders PNG […] [Original post on gruene.social]

So I have an extra Interrail day to use and that means... 🥁 MORE BORDERS! 😀 Should manage Kalków Laka 🇵🇱 - Vidnava 🇨🇿 Dziewietlice 🇵🇱 - Bernartice u Javorníka 🇨🇿 on Wednesday next week

I am confused about Corbigny-Clamecy in Bourgogne No info about works: https://www.ter.sncf.com/bourgogne-franche-comte/se-deplacer/info-trafic/travaux It had a bus substitution in June due to heat […] [Original post on gruene.social]

This - found via @IngaLovinde - has a little detail on extending trains from Slovakia and Austria/Hungary to Chop 🇺🇦 the 20km further to Uzhorod https://unn.ua/en/news/ukrzaliznytsia-opened-ticket-sales-for-direct-trains-to-the-eu-on-the-european-gauge-list-of-routes They will extend EC 146 […]

This is potentially very significant for the roll out of ETCS (a signaling and safety system for the whole continent for rail) Previously retrofitting old trains with ETCS has been hellish hard and/or expensive. The Signalling Company - a Belgian firm that belongs to Škoda, and has been working […]

Bit of a rant from me, in light of von der Leyen talking of "tech sovereignty" today "If you’re a “thought leader” about anything in European politics, it’s imperative you practice what you preach in terms of the tech you use" 👇 […]

Today on Mastodon I have Brits complaining at me that I don't know the problems of UK railways (I was born in the UK and still have a UK passport), and Germans writing to me assuming I do not understand German railways (presumably because I am writing in English, but I am also a German citizen […]