Jump to: Updates | Summary videos | Borders & background | Music track | Route map | Photos Text updates There was a thread on Mastodon from this day of #CrossBorderRail – you can find the whole thread here Jump to: Updates | Summary videos | Borders & background […]
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Preliminary conclusions from my #CrossChannelRail project
OK, I have to face it: I bit off more than I could chew. When I conducted the research for my #CrossChannelRail Project in March and April this year I thought I would be done with the report from the project by the end of May. And it is the […]
Read MorePodcasts and webinars galore about the future of the Channel Tunnel (thanks to #CrossChannelRail)
As I am still finalising the report from my #CrossChannelRail project in March and April, it has not stopped me getting the message out about the future of long distance through services through the Channel Tunnel, and examining the sort of lingering feeling of the tunnel somehow being an amazing […]
Read MoreLive Blog – #CrossChannelRail Day 8 – 24 March – Delémont – Bern – Zürich – München
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 & #CrossChannelRail) Today’s live text updates Link to the archive of today’s […]
Read MoreLive Blog – #CrossChannelRail Day 7 – 23 March – Delémont – Freiburg – Basel – Zürich – Delémont
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 & #CrossChannelRail) Today’s live text updates Link to the archive of today’s […]
Read MoreLive Blog – #CrossChannelRail Day 6 – 22 March – Lyon – Genève – Neuchâtel – Glovelier – Delémont
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 & #CrossChannelRail) Today’s live text updates Link to the archive of today’s […]
Read More#CrossChannelRail is GO! The future of long distance services through the Channel Tunnel
For the past three summers, #CrossBorderRail journeys have happened every summer. So far I have been to 288 international railway lines in Europe, and – with a bit of experience now! – I know how to run these projects. But, I wondered, why not apply the same method to one […]
Read More#CrossBorderRail looks at the Channel Tunnel – #CrossChannelRail will be the first project for 2025
A full project page about #CrossChannelRail is now available here! Little did I know when I wrote it! My long analysis of through trains through the Channel Tunnel written a year became an unlikely hit – it’s the most read blog entry I have ever written. However there is […]
Read MoreVDV on cross border re-activation of lines – nice idea, details more sketchy
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 little infographic that I reproduce here. So […]
Read MoreVDV zur Reaktivierung grenzüberschreitender Bahnstrecken – schöne Idee, Details noch unklar
(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 ihrer Vorschläge sind grenzüberschreitende Reaktivierungen, die sie mit der kleinen Infografik, die […]
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