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Sep 1 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
My blog post about what I learned at Frankfurt (Oder) yesterday is now up 👇
jonworth.eu/illegal-and-sy…

#Schengen

Summary in the 🧵
EVERY TRAIN arriving at Frankfurt (Oder) from Poland yesterday was controlled by the Bundespolizei

That meant EVERY one of these trains onwards towards Berlin was delayed
As Schengen is NOT suspended at the Germany-Poland border (see home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/policies/schen… ), and as these controls are clearly systematic (as every train is controlled), then this is obviously a contravention of Article 23 of the Schengen Borders Code (my emphasis) Image
Passport controls while trains are held at Frankfurt (Oder) is sometimes, but not always, listed as the reason for the delay by Deutsche Bahn, as the cases of EC 246 and EC 248 yesterday show ImageImageImage
All of the details of what I found (and indeed what I cannot know!) out are in the blog post

These controls have to stop NOW

FAO @NancyFaeser @YlvaJohansson

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Sep 2
2 days ago I spent the day at Frankfurt (Oder) and documented how German Bundespolizei are systematically checking passports of passengers on *every single train* arriving from Poland, a clear contravention of the #Schengen borders code 👇
jonworth.eu/illegal-and-sy…
Most of the reactions have been “but when I crossed [some other border] police were discriminatory towards ethnic minorities”

This is no doubt the case - we have masses of eyewitness reports! - but misses a key point
The way of stopping controls at Frankfurt (Oder) and indeed anywhere at the 🇩🇪 🇵🇱 or 🇩🇪 🇨🇿 borders probably ISN’T by proving discriminatory behaviour

Proving checks are systematic and hence illegal because contrary to Schengen borders code MIGHT work better
Read 6 tweets
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Sep 1
A few people have asked me about this piece by @carltonreid about the new Stockholm-Hamburg night train that starts today

theguardian.com/travel/2022/se…

Piece is so off in many places it’s getting a fisking here

Just because we want something is no excuse for bad reporting!

🧵
The title - “Train bragging” - what? Maybe the piece might explain that.

But I am really unconvinced by the “glorious resurgence of sleeper travel” - much of this is hype, and there is comparatively little practical action, other than from ÖBB
Also I’d not call a service that is cobbled together with ex-DB and ex-ÖBB carriages from the 1970s “glorious”, but hey ho

“Overnight carriages are coming out of mothballs” - errr, these carriages for this train have been in use on other services. Where did that come from?
Read 20 tweets
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Aug 30
Hmmm. This is a strange one.

@bgsceptic alerted me to this transportal.bg/ot-dnes-sresht…

And it’s Google-translated here transportal-bg.translate.goog/ot-dnes-sresht…

That states that Sofia 🇧🇬 - Thessaloniki 🇬🇷 trains (via Kuala) restarted 25 August, but I can find nothing on BDZ or @HellenicTrain sites
I’m not quite sure who would know… @seatsixtyone @AndyBTravels have you heard anything? @ebersi have you heard anything?
Train 361 in the BDZ timetable does depart at the right time, but this has just been pared back to Kulata I think, and there is nothing suitable from Strymonas on the Greek side on the @HellenicTrain site ImageImage
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Aug 30
The first conclusions from my #CrossBorderRail project are now out - 20 projects that would be comparatively simple and quick to implement that would make a positive change to international rail within 🇪🇺

This is for you @AdinaValean @Transport_EU!

Summary in the 🧵
Background on Top 20 👇
crossborderrail.trainsforeurope.eu/top20/

Detailed map of the Top 20 👇
umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossbo…

Recorded stream from the event launching the Top 20 👇


Press release 👇
crossborderrail.trainsforeurope.eu/pressemitteilu…

And now in 🧵 come the projects, alphabetical order!
Bardonecchia-Modane
🇮🇹🇫🇷

Missing Service

To do: extend Trenitalia Regionale trains from Bardonecchia to Modane (18.8km). It has to be done this way around due to the change of voltage between the French and Italian systems
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Aug 27
Trying to work out what best to do with the photos I took during #CrossBorderRail

I want to make the good ones, and the useful ones, available for free for people to use

But how best to do this?

Questions posed in the 🧵, feedback needed!
First the easy bit, I think: I want to license the photos using CC BY-SA 4.0 - I am happy for anyone to use and re-use the images, for free, providing credit is given - and that license does that

creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa…
But where do I put the images?

Putting *some* on Wikimedia Commons would make sense, but probably not all of them - see “Is it suitable here?”
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:C…
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Aug 25
Interesting point from @nickabrooks - the two firms operating local trains that failed are Abellio (belonged to NS 🇳🇱) and Keolis (SNCF 🇫🇷). Did that these firms belonged to other state railways contribute to their failure?
The case that it did: that they under-bid to win contracts, assuming the states they’re from would step in (they didn’t)
Case it didn’t: having the backing of a big state owned firm ought to have given them better terms to acquire rolling stock, and better operational competence
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