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 […]
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Back to Valenciennes, back to where #CrossBorderRail began – for the event to mark 20 years of the EU Agency for Railways
On 14 June 2022, on a crisp summer morning, I was the only passenger on an international train from Mons to Aulnoye-Aymeries, and would go on from there to the EU Agency for Railways in Valenciennes – the official start of the #CrossBorderRail project. Josef Doppelbauer, the boss of the […]
Read MoreDetermined citizens in Breisach, rail replacement buses to Müllheim, and no clarity about new trains – France-Germany regional rail remains a mess
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 […]
Read More3 of the #CrossBorderRail Top 20 projects now solved
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. […]
Read MoreBelfort-Delémont – yes, #CrossBorderRail to France can always get worse
It was one of the weirder experiences of my #CrossBorderRail project last year. I had arrived in Belfort in eastern France from Besançon, and needed to get to Delémont in Switzerland. There is a line between the two, but Swiss trains mostly depart from the TGV station that is 10km […]
Read MoreWhere next for #CrossBorderRail? Time to take stock
In the past twelve months I have: Investigated 131 cross border railways in Europe Travelled 62716 km on 425 trains Cycled 1662 km in 62 different places Travelled 2191 km on 20 buses I’ve now updated my “All the borders” #CrossBorderRail map as well, to reflect all of that. Pink […]
Read MoreGood news! The Seifhennersdorf (DE) – Varnsdorf (CZ) line to re-open
One grey and overcast August day last year I took a New York Times journalist and photographer to Seifhennersdorf, a town in Sachsen, Germany, that is less than 2 kilometres from the border to Czechia. The town features in the resulting piece in the Times about my #CrossBorderRail project. The […]
Read MorePhotos from the main 2022 project now on Flickr, licensed for re-use
A selection of the photos from the main #CrossBorderRail Project 2022 have now been uploaded to Flickr – all the albums are here. So far there are 1154 pictures total so far, of railways, stations, and other odds and ends, from 26 countries (all European Union countries except IE, MT, […]
Read MoreAutumn press coverage of the #CrossBorderRail project
Guest on #RailNatter with Gareth Dennis – 4 Jan 2023 Han har krydset alle EU’s grænser i tog i 2022. Nu er han mest af alt bare sur Information – 3 Jan 2023 – Mathias Sonne Aktivisten Jon Worth har i 2022 kørt Europa tyndt og krydset alle europæiske […]
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