Jon Worth

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Italo in Germany. Nice idea, but many open questions.

Leo Express Przemyśl - Frankfurt train to start in 2026

Jon Worth exclusive! 25% off Paris - Berlin train tickets! (Really, sort of)

Screaming down the tracks

Baku - Tbilisi train to restart this month

Cross-border railway problems are annoyingly universal

EU railway ticketing proposals are out. What now?

Berlin - Oslo ICE direct train in 2028

State railways, what's wrong? CER's perplexing response to the European Commission's Passenger Package

How to make the rail ticketing aspects of the European Commission's Passenger Package more workable

How the gospel - the Political Guidelines - left the European Commission with a ticketing proposal both radical and unworkable

EU rail ticketing reform proposal is out next week: this is what to look out for

Albania's shoddy new railway

Skopje commuter train service to start 1st September

The longest train journey in the EU

We now know the scale of EU rail ticketing issues. Commission, over to you!

Italo to run high speed trains in Germany

Launch of the new #CrossBorderRail database of international railway lines

Kyiv - Bulgaria trains to start in summer 2026

I'm not that bothered if SNCF Connect is forced to sell Trenitalia tickets, but someone has to be able to offer me both

My railway work: no shortage of meaning, but for the EU institutions that can be uncomfortable

A tram-train for Nijmegen - Kleve: the option with the fewest downsides

Monocab as a solution for rural rail lines

Chancers to the left of me, malevolent incumbents to the right, stuck in the middle with... what?

ÉcoTrain: €3 million to answer the wrong question

There is a solution to connect Saarbrücken and Luxembourg by train. But France has to play its part too.

Direct Eindhoven - Bruxelles Train

Rising fuel costs due to the Iran conflict give European railways an opportunity - can they seize it?

Paris-Stuttgart, and Stuttgart-Budapest: two railway worlds

SNCF and Bourgogne-Franche-Comté: a railway that has given up

Remind me, why are we trying to fix rail ticketing in the EU?

Zagreb-Sarajevo trains to re-start

Transport & Environment tries to come up with a position on rail ticketing, but it's very imprecise

A silly idea to prove a point? The European Railway Ticketing Championship

Quick notes on Trenitalia's new maintenance facility at Maisons-Alfort Pompadour

New trains are not necessarily good trains

Eurostar is not going to maintain 67 trains at Temple Mills

Bundling up tickets and booking horizons: railways are making a problem for themselves

Rail path dependency: how the oil crisis and the British government left SNCF with a problem in Italian tunnels

Confirmed: SNCF's Alstom built TGV-M Avelia Horizon trains are too large for some Italian rail lines

Rail in Slovenia: only new lines can improve it from here

Crossrail 2 starts to be built in 2026

IRJ tries to explain the EU rail ticketing reform, so I will try to decipher what they were trying to say

Hungary-Serbia by train, before Orbán's section of the Chinese built line opens

TGV Les Laumes-Alésia? Astérix is having a laugh

Berlin to build a maglev to Tegel

Who is to benefit from the forthcoming reform of the railway ticketing regime in the EU?

Positive talk about the future of rail between Netherlands and Belgium

One ticket, or more than one ticket, for my international train trip? More than one, with passenger rights, is the simpler solution

Bulgaria - North Macedonia Tunnel by 2028

Somebody in France has to want to run night trains

Chinese investment in European railways

Norway launches panoramic glass roof train to see northern lights

Railway churnalism: how many stories do I need about some new seats and a bit of carpet?

Dear European leaders: here's a little idea for your competitiveness agenda

How to safely overload a high speed train (and why it matters for the debate about ticketing reform in the EU)

How to fix railway ticketing in the EU

Loop line to connnect British and Irish cities

Five "innovative" projects in France to save branch lines, but what's the point?

Sofia-Thessaloniki trains to return

A February trip to Berlin: to systematically document my #CrossBorderRail work

Finally some progress for France-Germany regional rail

Hungary to buy 100 Chinese InterCity Trains

Up and running on Ghost

How do I overcome my railway Groucho Marx problem?

Ebbsfleet or Ashford? It has to be one or the other, not both, and it needs to be Ashford

I've been wrong all these years about printed train timetables (the lessons from a Montbard - Nuits-sous-Ravières train that doesn't run)

Radical enough to see purpose in my work, sensible enough to propose something that can be done?

If you were to build a depot for Channel Tunnel passenger trains, where would you build it?

Flat rate national ticketing: public transport policymaking through shock

A creative solution to serve Köln Hbf en route from Frankfurt (Main) to London

Now we're going to get a Bruxelles and Amsterdam to Milano night train. Or are we?

A little short term subsidy for this or that route is no way to support night trains - lessons from the end of Basel-Malmö before it even started

European Rail Passengers Union: lobbying for passengers, cross border

Geo Racers: the most fun web travel game since GeoGuessr

An open letter, and an invoice for €59.94, to Alberto Mazzola, boss of Community of European Railways

The Avelia Horizon trains Eurostar has ordered from Alstom are not compliant with Channel Tunnel evacuation rules – what can be done about it?

The Avelia Horizon trains Eurostar has ordered from Alstom are not compliant with Channel Tunnel evacuation rules - what can be done about it?

#CrossChannelRail final report released, and the next steps

Renfe, why should we trust a word you say about ticketing?

“News” that Régiolis cross border trains cannot operate in Germany is actually nothing new

We have no intellectual space for big but implementable ideas about railways

When a plan’s not a plan, and a revolution isn’t a revolution – European High Speed Rail

Not being allocated depot space at Temple Mills: blessing in disguise?

News stories, and social media posts for context: from Elvas to Nagykereki

All about 2 metres? The importance of the difference between a 200m and a 202m train is scarcely plausible

ORR grants Virgin Trains access to Temple Mills: the low risk option

Working out what Eurostar is going to do – based on the numbers, not what the company says

Eurostar ordering just 30 Alstom trains: pragmatism, and a lack of ambition

What train other than Alstom Avelia Horizon could Eurostar even consider?

Constraints on future Channel Tunnel operators

Why you probably should not re-gauge railways in Europe

SNCF’s half hearted effort to support international night trains in danger of hitting the buffers

Building a machine-translated railway news aggregator

Connecting the everyday user experience with the big picture politics of French railways

Green Signals podcast about rivals to Eurostar, and some further thoughts about the challengers

Does a railway operator need to know about all the legs of my journey so as to offer me passenger rights?