Jon Worth - Stories Contributed
Rough notes about the longest train journey in the world – in 2025
EU | May 31 2025 14:0634
Finale Summer 2025 – crowdfunding open
EU | May 23 2025 10:0615
8am on the slow train to Paris
EU | May 13 2025 02:3327
Railway work: what I am doing has some ethical purpose, but is anyone listening?
EU | May 12 2025 06:4316
A high speed rail plan for Europe? Let’s start with a high speed rail plan for France’s borders
EU | May 08 2025 11:0721
Can’t deliver packages in crowded cities? Put more… err… passengers on your trams
EU | Apr 30 2025 11:3317
Solar panels between the tracks on an active railway line: a dreadful idea
EU | Apr 30 2025 09:0649
New Channel Tunnel entrant? You need a plan for what happens if you fail, so you can actually succeed
EU | Mar 14 2025 12:0925
The really simple guide to what we need to fix in EU wide rail ticketing, and how
EU | Mar 14 2025 07:0525
Want to rival Eurostar on Channel Tunnel routes? How do you differentiate yourself?
EU | Feb 19 2025 10:0618
Solving the Valence-Armentières Problem – the gold standard for railway trip planning and ticket sales
EU | Feb 12 2025 06:2535
The rail planning tool we need in Europe
EU | Feb 11 2025 06:2231
Bundling trip planning and ticketing together – it’s not in the passengers’ interest
EU | Feb 07 2025 07:0127
What should be in an EU High Speed Rail Action Plan?
EU | Jan 31 2025 13:0618
Assumptions
EU | Jan 31 2025 13:0617
Introducing the Rail Story Bullshit Meter
EU | Jan 31 2025 13:0629
“here’s what a joined-up 21st-century [train] network needs” – trying to give some answers
EU | Jan 31 2025 13:0624
More passengers are a problem for the railways
EU | Jan 31 2025 13:0621
In this peculiar world of cross border railways, the new slow Bruxelles-Paris OUIGO train makes sense
EU | Jan 31 2025 13:0615
Assumptions
EU | Jan 22 2025 08:0624
Introducing the Rail Story Bullshit Meter
EU | Jan 14 2025 06:0635
“here’s what a joined-up 21st-century [train] network needs” – trying to give some answers
EU | Jan 02 2025 07:4343
More passengers are a problem for the railways
EU | Dec 30 2024 12:0733
In this peculiar world of cross border railways, the new slow Bruxelles-Paris OUIGO train makes sense
EU | Dec 19 2024 14:1222
No Eurostar isn’t the worst performing train company in Europe. But if you’re T&E does it matter?
EU | Dec 09 2024 10:1227
“We can’t transport more passengers because our planes are already full” – said Michael O’Leary. Never. So why are rail companies saying essentially that?
EU | Nov 04 2024 04:271134
Only EU law is going to solve cross border rail ticketing problems
EU | Oct 30 2024 09:2725
Tzitzikostas at his EP hearing 4th November: it’s time to hear HOW he wants to fix EU-wide rail ticketing
EU | Oct 25 2024 12:1019
Berlin’s problem with dumped cars
EU | Oct 25 2024 12:1073
International rail ticketing that is customer unfriendly – that is the system working as intended. We need EU law to change the system.
EU | Oct 25 2024 12:1032
The Stadler RS Zero: the new solution to save the smallest branch lines
EU | Oct 25 2024 12:1025
Deutsche Bahn has an amazing opportunity in ticket sales, but is too blinded by Flixtrain to seize it
EU | Oct 25 2024 12:1015
How to not fall foul of SNCF’s luggage rules
EU | Oct 25 2024 12:1024
Berlin’s problem with dumped cars
EU | Sep 02 2024 08:52173
International Rail Ticketing Which Is Customer Unfriendly – That Is the System Working as Intended - We Need EU Law to Change the System
EU | Sep 02 2024 04:0464
The Stadler RS Zero: the new solution to save the smallest branch lines
EU | Aug 29 2024 16:1043
Deutsche Bahn has an amazing opportunity in ticket sales, but is too blinded by Flixtrain to seize it
EU | Aug 19 2024 06:2537
How to not fall foul of SNCF’s luggage rules
EU | Aug 17 2024 10:1245
Somewhere between hell and hype(r-loop) – where our railway discussion ought to be
EU | Aug 16 2024 08:1227
Peel back the rhetoric and state railways are naked on Europe-wide ticketing – only EU law is going to fix this mess
EU | Aug 16 2024 06:0926
So long Berlin. I’m off to a Bourgogne village
EU | Aug 06 2024 10:0946
Note to the new EU Transport Commissioner: fixing cross border rail ticketing will help millions of Europeans, and can secure your legacy
EU | Jul 28 2024 14:0828
Schlimmer geht immer – rumours about the transport portfolio in the next European Commission
EU | May 23 2024 13:4422
SNCF is stopping sales of most international tickets – a decision rooted in incompetence, and communicated with malevolence
EU | May 18 2024 16:0653
Railways and the Enrico Letta report on the future of the Single Market
EU | Apr 18 2024 04:4324
A report for Jakop Dalunde MEP and a follow up event about rail and multimodal ticketing in the EU
EU | Apr 11 2024 06:2233
Abandoned luggage on trains, and the presumption of innocence
EU | Apr 08 2024 09:0680
No amount of investment in infrastructure can save rail companies from themselves
EU | Mar 29 2024 13:2266
If you reduced track access charges in European passenger rail, very little would happen – at least short term
EU | Mar 28 2024 10:2228
Should Deutsche Bahn be obliged to sell tickets of private rivals in DB Navigator?
EU | Mar 28 2024 07:4327
Yield management and compulsory reservation – how much of each should we tolerate in railways?
EU | Mar 23 2024 13:0660
#CrossBorderRail South East Europe – crowdfunding now open
EU | Mar 11 2024 14:2234
“Europa spoort niet” – reflections on appearing in vpro’s documentary about European railways
EU | Mar 10 2024 10:2228
What good is live tracking data if I cannot act on it?
EU | Mar 07 2024 10:0632
How green are Europe’s railways?
EU | Feb 19 2024 05:1982
Bad Muskau – Łęknica, and the joys and tensions at the Germany – Poland border
EU | Feb 16 2024 03:4034
Mannheim-Bruxelles in 1972, and what it tells us about Mannheim-Bruxelles today
EU | Feb 14 2024 10:5953
Trainline, Rail Europe and Omio – only inadvertently solving cross-border rail ticketing headaches
EU | Feb 14 2024 06:5928
A hydrogen tram for Görlitz: about the worst idea I can imagine
EU | Feb 07 2024 12:59103
Please look after your activists when they are alive – the Natenom case
EU | Feb 06 2024 05:5965
There’ll be a new European Commissioner for Transport in 2024 – but I’m not hopeful for change
EU | Jan 31 2024 07:0331
What Analysis would you like to read? Send me your ideas, and I will have a go
EU | Jan 22 2024 12:5536
Interrail tips and tricks
EU | Jan 22 2024 08:5918
Deutschlandfunk and Süddeutsche Zeitung about railway ticketing, and a niche slow train in Croatia
EU | Jan 22 2024 08:2042
The future of long distance train services through the Channel Tunnel
EU | Jan 17 2024 11:0485
Why Berlin can’t just do as Paris does on cycling and parking policy
EU | Dec 11 2023 12:4143
Stuck between an undeveloped market and the hangovers of state monopolies, rail passengers face the worst of both worlds
EU | Dec 11 2023 10:5938
NEWAG’s digital sabotage of Koleje Dolnośląskie (Dolny Śląsk) trains – what were they thinking?
EU | Dec 07 2023 10:0570
Budapest to Belgrade by train – from 28 November 2023
EU | Nov 27 2023 14:5679
Why the European Commission’s cross border pilot projects are a good idea – but not the way the Commission communicates it
EU | Nov 27 2023 06:2123
So party politics did not work. It’s time to solve Europe’s railway problems some other way
EU | Nov 25 2023 12:2133
Why bother with sensible transport policies when you can propose a Maglev instead?
EU | Nov 20 2023 06:42101
Budapest to Belgrade by train – maybe from 28 November 2023
EU | Nov 14 2023 06:0048
If Spain wants to introduce a short-haul flight ban, here’s how to avoid the traps of France’s ban
EU | Nov 10 2023 14:0080
Why DB Reiseasukunft on the web is still my main train planning tool
EU | Nov 06 2023 05:2130
The Berliner Ostbahn – a railway project with potential for commuters, for the region, for connections to Poland, and even for freight from the Baltic states
EU | Nov 03 2023 08:4828
Problems with the Cheb-Nürnberg passenger service – and no-one knows what’s going on
EU | Nov 02 2023 07:32421
If you wanted a massive increase in night train routes in Europe, how could you do it?
EU | Nov 01 2023 13:1658
How to actually build Europe-wide multimodal public transport booking platforms
EU | Oct 31 2023 12:0514
When the only way from Wissembourg to Strasbourg is… through Germany (with 3 changes of train)
EU | Oct 12 2023 14:0632
Simple international trips, and the failures of ticket booking platforms
EU | Oct 04 2023 08:0120
Kulturzug slides – Kulturzug Folien – Slajdy Kuulturzug
EU | Sep 30 2023 04:0514
Policy proposals to fix Europe’s railways
EU | Sep 20 2023 12:1817
We know what’s wrong with European railways. Mostly. But how do we fix it?
EU | Sep 20 2023 08:0624
The #CrossBorderRail plans for autumn 2023, and some press coverage
EU | Aug 24 2023 08:0523
How do you even say “Takt” for a timetable in English?
EU | Aug 16 2023 06:0616
Running for the European Parliament election list for the German Grüne
EU | Aug 02 2023 02:0119
If there’s to be a rival to Eurostar through the Channel Tunnel, it’s not going to be Mobico with new trains in 2025
EU | Jul 31 2023 10:0534
Where is the sense of urgency in international rail in the EU? I can’t see it
EU | Jun 19 2023 11:4335
Turning it around – could you make the use of Berlin’s streets better for everyone?
EU | Jun 16 2023 07:4334
Strasbourg? Karlsruhe? No – Saarbrücken? Where the future Paris-Berlin ICE stops is not the issue
EU | Jun 14 2023 10:0426
The personal is political. Have you ever been to Seifhennersdorf, Zgorzelec or Ormenio?
EU | Jun 14 2023 08:0529
Explaining complexity in my usual way – with a diagram! This time: Deutschlandticket
EU | May 01 2023 01:1832
DeutschlandTicket as a tourist? Buy it from mo.pla
EU | Apr 30 2023 05:3476
New trains for France-Germany regional services to be delayed 2 years – now 2026 not 2024
EU | Apr 29 2023 10:0515
Events planned, routes adjusted, and crowdfunding ongoing – #CrossBorderRail is 2 weeks away!
EU | Apr 17 2023 15:4342
Toute l’Europe – a future night train map that’s very, very bad
EU | Apr 12 2023 16:0452
Crowd-funding for #CrossBorderRail 2023 – all of Germany’s borders – is now open!
EU | Mar 15 2023 09:0124
Quoted in the FT “‘We are full’: the rebirth of Europe’s sleeper trains”
EU | Mar 13 2023 07:2577
Will there be a direct train from [insert city] to London through the Channel Tunnel? Probably not
EU | Mar 13 2023 05:4338
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