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Looking at https://www.bahn.de/ you can now book (some) tickets within Great Britain using their website. Would be fun to know how well their implementation is. I can hardly imagine anyone at DB knows the ins and outs of British ticketing restrictions and so on. Maybe someone with more expertise...

Hi, I'm trying to visit the regular Thameslink website from Germany, but I cannot find a way to do it. Whichever browser or link I use (I tried a few here posted on the forum), I'm always redirected to the Thameslink airport website https://airport.thameslinkrailway.com/?locale=de Even when I...

Italo and its parent organisation NTV have very serious plans to enter the German high-speed rail market and compete with DB Fernverkehr. They have a contract ready to buy 30 Siemens Velaro for 3.6 billion euros and intend to start running 56 daily trains in 2028. It would be an hourly service...

The Bulgarian transport ministry has tendered out all the passenger train services in the country for 12 years starting this December, and the contracts have been recently signed. State-owned incumbent BDŽ has won lot 1 - West, comprising train services in the west of the country, and also all...

Republicans in the state of Pennsylvania are blocking funding for transit in the state. For Philadelphia's SEPTA this means a big reduction in service and a big increase in fares, with the first phase of cuts starting tomorrow, 24 August. Copying the summary from the SEPTA website (...

Since 5:57 this morning, the fast Marseille-Nice TER trains are the first in France in no longer being operated by SNCF, but Transdev Sud Inter-Métropoles, who won Région SUD-PACA's public tender. Two-hourly Corail push-pull trains have been replaced by hourly trains using 16 new Régio 2N...

Flix, the company behind Flixbus and Flixtrain, have ordered 65 Talgo 230 trainsets, the same as the ICE L that DB and DSB ordered. The volume is EUR 2.4 billion, with 30 units worth EUR 1.06 billion firmly committed. The locomotives will not come from Talgo, instead these will be provided by...

The European Commission has announced it's fining ÖBB and ČD over colluding to prevent RegioJet from purchasing second-hand coaches from ÖBB in order to compete with them both: ČD and ÖBB coordinated their actions in sales processes related to used ÖBB wagons for long-distance passenger...

Austrian Federal Railways announced today they bought Go-Ahead Verkehrsgesellschaft Deutschland GmbH, so Go-Ahead's regional railway operations in Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria. The price is being kept secret. ÖBB already tried to enter the German market with their subsidiary "Allegra" which...

From Sunday 1 October 7:08, the first new battery train of the modern generation will enter service in Germany: on the RB76 line Kiel Hbf - Kiel-Oppendorf, operated by erixx Holstein. Nah.sh, the state's rail authority announced this on Instagram. Considering it's a very short line of 11 minutes...

Hi, just a small question: a friend of mine is travelling to London soon and I want to give them the two oyster cards I have (we don't live in the UK). Both are registered to my TfL account I registered a few years ago and thus to my name and address. Can they use my Oyster Cards even though...

Today the EC announced they would support 10 cross-border rail projects, that responded to a request for proposals for support. These include: - Vienna - Budapest - Oradea/Arad (Hungarian Ministry of Transport) - Germany - Denmark - Sweden with various services: SJ night train Stockholm-Berlin...

On the one hand, the transport ministers of the states and their federal counterpart generally agreed on introducing a 49€ ticket as a successor to the 9€ ticket "as soon as possible". The states altogether and the federal level are supposed to give 1.5 billion € each for that. There are no...

Due to staff shortage, all S-Bahn lines (S11, S12, S13/19) in Cologne have been cancelled until Monday. The S6 has already been cancelled within Cologne since 28 June until 5 August. Also, the S8 and S9 (which don't run in Cologne but elsewhere in NRW) and a number of regional services are at...

Three passenger services in northern Brandenburg are very likely to be axed by the end of the year: RB63 between Joachimsthal and Templin (27.5 km, 5 intermediate stops, operator: NEB): This was only reactivated in 2018 on a trial basis (after having closed in 2006), and the state says with...

Today, the main part of the €1.5b "Kombilösung" project, the tram tunnel under Kaiserstraße and Ettlinger Straße, opens. The controversial tunnel has been subject to two referenda and was under construction for almost 12 years and planned in various iterations since the 1980s. For reference...

Quite a discussion in German rail circles at the moment: Abellio in Germany will rather sooner than later be a thing of the past. Apparently, Abellio's German operations make a loss and ultimately, the Dutch government (personified as finance minister Wopke Hoekstra) doesn't want to throw Dutch...

The main line through the Ruhrgebiet between Essen and Duisburg may be heavily disrupted for months. Yesterday, a lorry carrying 35.000 liters of fuel crashed into a car right under a railway bridge, resulting in a huge fire (disrupting at the same time the Ruhrgebiet's main motorway A40)...

The German Federal Ministry for Transport and Digital Infrastructure published its new very ambitious rail strategy today. It consists of various documents (all in German) with important-sounding names like "Rail pact", "Master plan rail transport" and "Germany takt", which will -- according to...

Hello! I am wondering, why Britain's tram systems seem to be so reluctant to use line numbers (1, 2, 3 or A, B, C). From what I understand, only Sheffield differentiates its tram services, by using colours. Birmingham, Edinburgh and Blackpool of course don't really need them; but why don't the...