The demise of CityNightLine
A goods train derailed in southern Jutland on Friday last week and, as can be seen from the picture from the local newspaper, it was on a single track line…
Tag Archives: Deutsche Bahn
A little Nordic rail trip
I will be making what should be a reasonably simple rail trip in early December – the 600km journey between Copenhagen (station: København H) and Oslo (station: Oslo S). So…
In praise of @DB_bahn (not the railway, but the Twitter account)
This is for you Torsten, Simon, Norman, Marc, Kai, Danny, Janice, Matthias, Maik, Filiz, Jana, Christian, Christian and Nicole: a huge thanks from a regular DB traveller for helping to…
Cheap rail tickets through Germany
So you want a one-off rail ticket through Germany, and you want it as cheap as possible. You’re doing a journey like Belgium (- Germany -) Austria, or Denmark (-…
In its quest for market share, Deutsche Bahn has forgotten about technology and service on their Frankfurt-Brussels route
The Intercity-Express (ICE) connecting Brussels with Frankfurt/Main via Köln is probably the least reliable train I’ve ever experienced. The catalogue of problems I have had with this service stretches back…
Topic 1 for NL-UK dialogue: rail tickets (London-Bruxelles-Rotterdam)
I’m lucky enough to have received an invite to The Apeldoorn Conference on UK-Netherlands dialogue, taking place 6-8 March in Rotterdam. An easy and high speed train journey – perfect!…
Some lessons learnt from Europe’s travel chaos (and some tips to help you get home)
5 days into the volcano mess and the finger pointing is starting, some of it more and some of it less well argued. Charlemagne has an elegantly penned argument of…
The hypocrisy of Europe’s railways: some observations after a journey from Brussels to Germany
In the January edition of ‘Mobil’, the magazine of Deutsche Bahn there’s a picture of Guillaume Pépy (head of SNCF), Rüdiger Grübe (chair of the board of Deutsche Bahn) and…
