Tomorrow is Brexit day. What a sad day for Europe. Whatever the pros and cons for this most British of … Read More “Simple Math: if Entry minus Exit is smaller than 0, then nothing will be left”
What a relief: after having removed most sleeping coach connections from its network, the DB is now welcoming ÖBB, the … Read More “While we Were Sleeping – the Deutsche Bahn Was Asleep at the Wheel as Well”
In mid-December the German railroad administration implements its annual schedule change, in close collaboration with its European counterparts. This is … Read More “Schedule change and the Deutsche Bahn as the “egg-laying-wool-milk-pig””
A few weeks ago, a first pilot container freight train arrived from China in Rügen, Germany. It had crossed Kazakhstan, … Read More “A Silk Road Made of Steel – a Lesson for Europe?”
For a climate activist that must sound like an oxymoron, if not outright blasphemy. Didn’t Europeans fuel massive industrialization by … Read More “Learning from the 19th century is learning to win!”
The German government just launched a multibillion Euro package to save the climate, which is being criticised by about every … Read More “A climate package for the street.”
In 1841 the preacher Thomas Cook invented mass tourism and “package tours”. The original package was an excursion by train … Read More “Poetic Justice – The Crash Landing of Thomas Cook”
Josip Broz Tito was the name Serbian railway workers uttered when they pointed at the diesel behemoth 666-003 of the … Read More “Josip Broz Tito”
Had it not been for Nikola Tesla (1856 – 1943), I wouldn’t be sitting on a train. Nobody would – … Read More “The real Tesla”
It is 3h40 AM as I am standing on platform 2 of the train station in Schwarzach-St.Veit (For ski enthusiasts, … Read More “Changing a train without changing it…”