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No Eurostar for Stratford International – good

By Jon on May 28, 2010

Scandal! The new Stratford International station might well not have any international trains stopping there. Among others the Mayor of Newham and investors building a shopping centre at Stratford are up in arms, as reported by the Evening Standard. Actually it’s no scandal. It’s just sensible. And I say this as a Eurostar frequent traveller who, [...]

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European rail passengers’ rights – time to do something? But what..?

By Jon on February 17, 2010

I have a reputation as a blogger that gets things done – I don’t just have opinions on things, I try to transform my thoughts into practical action. Campaigns such as Gender Balanced Commission and the Atheist Bus Campaign have grown from posts on this blog. So when @kattebel stated in a tweet that it was time for [...]

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One tradgedy doesn’t mean Thalys needs to mess up everyone’s lives

By Jon on February 15, 2010

Tragedy hit the Belgian railways today with the crash of two commuter trains at Buizingen. There’s nothing I can add to what has been written about that already – any loss of life is always devastating, and I just hope this crash was not caused by linguistic issues. But instead I would like to focus on what the [...]

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The hypocrisy of Europe’s railways: some observations after a journey from Brussels to Germany

By Jon on January 20, 2010

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 Yoshio Ishida (president of UIC) beaming at Gare du Midi, Bruxelles, in front of the Climate Express, a special day long train organised in December [...]

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Abject Eurostar communications and technological failure

By Jon on December 19, 2009

Last night at 2202 a newsletter arrived in my inbox entitled ‘Europe: the ideal Christmas gift’, urging me to offer friends and family a trip on Eurostar. At the same time Eurostar knew a difficult situation was developing on its services – BBC reported on it at 0400 this morning. When temperatures are very cold either side of [...]

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