Swiss #NightTrains Basel - Copenhagen/Malmø canceled.
The Finance Committee of the Swiss Council of States voted 8-3 against subsidizing the #CrossBorderRail connection which now looks set to fail. Rail operator SBB had declared the subventions necessary for launching. They expect to refund already sold tickets.
Bevis 154 på at norske #Jernbanedirektoratet egentlig ikke liker å holde på med tog.
https://jarnvagar.nu/inga-svenska-direkttag-till-trondheim/
De har sagt nei til at SJ skal kunne kjøre til direktetog til #Stockholm og at #Norrtåg skal kunne kjøre direkte mellom #Trondheim og #Sundsvall på den elektrifisert #Meråkerbanen.
@Squig @jon I would split the ticket at "Roosendaal Grens" and "Essen". I had 40% off in the Netherlands (voordeelurenkaart), 50% in Belgium (because I am from a large family) and for Essen - Aalter used a Go-Pass....
Its not as if international train travel was trivial then either. One issue then was the short cross border trips were disproportionally more expensive because of how the tariff worked. And that is a facter in why so many closed. #crossBorderRail
Ich bin noch nicht über die deutsche Grenze, habe aber schon 5 (!) Bahn-eMails zu Verspätungen bekommen.
Jetzt #Nachtzug nach Malmö retten!
Die Finanzkommission des Ständerates der #Schweiz hat die CHF 10 Mio. für die Förderung gestrichen!😭😭😭😭
Unterschreibe jetzt den offenen Brief an die Bundesversammlung!
#NightTrain #Nattåg #Nattog #ZugStattFlug #Bahnzeit #CrossBorderRail #EuropeByRail #NettoNull
Jetzt Nachtzug nach Malmö rett...
The Dutch province of Groningen are completely fed up with the operational qualities of governance in Niedersachsen around the #CrossBorderRail Wiederlinie Groningen - Leer - Bremen. Politicians do not communicate clearly about delays, DB InfraGo is making a mess of everything and is qualifying everything including installing switches and signals a “technical challenge”.
Article in Dutch: https://nos.nl/l/2590164
This might be interesting for you @jon
https://kun.uz/en/news/2025/11/12/almaty-tashkent-talgo-train-to-operate-daily-from-december
:european_sleeper: European Sleeper to run night train between Paris and Berlin after :oebb: OEBB and :sncf: SNCF suspending their :nightjet: - let's see whether it's gonna happen.
No! It's braking AND Eurobalises, and it dates from LAST WEEK https://www.grandest.fr/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/11-06-25-cp-regiolis-transfrontalier-france-allemagne.pdf But this was not on the Actualités section of the Grand Est site, so I had missed it. #CrossBorderRail
Oh f*** off, really
Can you make up your mind please, Grand Est, what your bullshit reason is for the #CrossBorderRail Régiolis delay is?
Last week it was emergency brakes, now it's Eurobalises 🤷♂️
Really, this Thibaud Philipps (Vice President of Grand Est) is talking absolute garbage about the Régiolis problems, and France 3 is just regurgitating it all
Blog post update: https://jonworth.eu/news-that-regiolis-cross-border-trains-cannot-operate-in-germany-is-actually-nothing-new/#philipps
I still don't believe anything at all changed German side to stop the Régiolis running, but Alstom (then CAF) made a manufacturing error that was spotted too late
#Bahnbubble I need your help with more of the Régiolis stuff
Philpps - vice president of Grand Est - claims a November 2024 change to emergency brake rules in Germany (needing electromagnetic brakes) rendered Régiolis incompatible:
https://france3-regions.franceinfo.fr/grand-est/bas-rhin/strasbourg-0/pres-de-400-millions-d-euros-plus-tard-les-ter-transfrontaliers-prives-d-allemagne-par-berlin-3245092.html
But the linked VDV PDF doesn’t say that. And is that even possible as a reason? #CrossBorderRail
Today's #CrossBorderRail starts poorly. My domestic UK train from Oxford to London Paddington gets delayed 66 minutes. The following train to London is cancelled, as are several others leaving from Oxford. For almost an hour, Great Western was unable to even quantify the delay, and the station's screen reported "delayed" with no further information. This was a new one to me!
Might miss my connection to the Eurostar.
Bulgaria and North Macedonia are making progress on the #CrossBorderRail line that was part completed in 1913 (yes that’s not a typo)
But these sums look rather optimistic given the complexity of the terrain
https://www.railjournal.com/infrastructure/bulgaria-and-north-macedonia-agree-cross-border-tunnel/
This is working out well! 😀
28 signed up in person for Brussels (we've space for 50), 78 signed up for the web stream - for the launch of my report about the future of the Channel Tunnel on 17th November #CrossBorderRail
All welcome!
crossborderrail.trainsforeurope.eu/projects/cro...
#CrossChannelRail Report Launc...
This is working out well! 😀
28 signed up in person for Brussels (we've space for 50), 78 signed up for the web stream - for the launch of my report about the future of the Channel Tunnel on 17th November #CrossBorderRail
All welcome!
https://crossborderrail.trainsforeurope.eu/projects/crosschannelrail/crosschannelrail-report/
Ok, credit where it's due
On my last Interrail trip I had two hefty delays - 122 mins Paris to Marktredwitz, and over 400 mins Hegyeshalom to Sighisoara
And Eurail BV (the company behind Interrail) has processed the delay compensation within 15 mins
Amazing 🎉
ICYMI
I recently went on a trip to Budapest, Bucharest, Transylvania, and Vienna, and blogged about it. It covers a lot of my favourite things:
- (Sleeper) trains
- Craft beer & specialty coffee
- (Roman) history, archaeology, and art
- Hash House Harriers and trail running
If any of those things interest you too, or you just like pretty pictures, check out https://www.martijn.be/tag/TT202510/?order=asc
#FlightFree #craftbeer #romanhistory #TransylvaniaHalloweenHashTrip #CrossBorderRail
In for a (easy) weekend of #CrossBorderRail . Today's menu: Bruxelles Midi-London St Pancras, then London Paddington-Oxford. The waiting room of the Eurostar in Brussels is a disgrace, low, oppressive ceilings, no daylight, overcrowded. Border control was relatively painless though.
