Stumbled upon this 2001 article in the Japan Railway & Transport Review about the history of EMUs vs loco-hauled trains in Japan. https://www.ejrcf.or.jp/jrtr/jrtr27/pdf/f40_ina.pdf
It adds some nice background context to @jon 's recent article regarding TGVs and how different choices they made in the 70s and 80s lead to lauding gauge problems in 2026… https://jonworth.eu/rail-path-dependency-how-the-oil-crisis-and-the-british-government-left-sncf-with-a-problem-in-italian-tunnels/
Nothing new in this Le Temps article on #CrossBorderRail but interesting nevertheless. @jon
Les diplomates suisses s’inquiètent des conséquences de la rigueur. Le député du Doubs Matthieu Bloch juge le comportement français problématique envers un «partenaire exemplaire»
I can’t tell if this is news or non-news since @jon hasn’t tooted about it 😅
Passer la frontière sans changer de train ou de conducteur: la première rame transfrontalière Régiolis France-Allemagne a été dévoilée mardi, destinée à fluidifier la circulation entre les deux pays.
The 🇨🇭 Committee for Transport and Telecommunications from the Council of States has now also approved the expansion of the NEAT line on the left bank of the Rhine as did their colleagues from the National Council in March.
https://www.parlament.ch/press-releases/Pages/mm-kvf-s-2023-08-20.aspx
This might interest @jon given the implications for the Wörth-Strasbourg #CrossBorderRail line.
https://www.parlament.ch/de/ratsbetrieb/suche-curia-vista/geschaeft?AffairId=20243389l
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