“I Don’t Want to Belong to Any Club That Will Accept Me as a Member” Groucho Marx is supposed to have said. And I have come to the view that I am facing something similar in my railway work. “Why would any company in the railway sector consider me to […]
Discussion about re-opening Kent stations on HS1 between London and the Channel Tunnel is getting more interesting. The Bring Back Euro Trains campaign has been gathering public support to re-open the stations, Ashford’s MP says re-opening the station in his constituency is his highest priority and is building political support, […]
I am a child of the digital era. When I planned a first Interrail trip in 1999 Deutsche Bahn’s website already had a timetable search for pretty much everything (I still have the printouts from back then). I have never bought a European Rail Timetable book, although somewhere on a […]
I find myself buffeted from both sides at the moment in my transport work. Am I radical enough, or too radical? Based on who’s lecturing me on social media it is both, simultaneously. This quandary most importantly crops up regarding the future of the Channel Tunnel. The question I am […]
When it was announced that Virgin Trains was successful in being allocated maintenance depot capacity at Temple Mills in east London, there was a sort of reaction “we’ll that will mean that Virgin will be the competitor to Eurostar then.” But no sooner had the decision been made that I started […]
A post by UITP Secretary General Mohamed Mezghani caught my eye on LinkedIn – it’s about Spain’s plan to introduce a €60 a month flat rate national public transport ticket next year, along the lines of what Germany did with Deutschlandticket. “While this plan will certainly make public transport more […]