Great Britain is digitising its borders: EU citizens will also need a travel permit from April 2, 2025
Now Brexit is becoming concrete for travelers. From April 2, 2025, citizens from EU countries, Switzerland and the Vatican City must apply for a digital travel permit, the ETA, before traveling. Conversely, British citizens must apply for a digital ETIAS permit of the EU.
Re-nationalisation is intended to give new impetus to British railways
In 1814, the English railway pioneer George Stephenson constructed his first locomotive. It was a locomotive designed for coal transport, named after the Prussian general von Blücher. From Great Britain, the 1435 mm gauge spread throughout Western and Central Europe and large parts of the world outside Europe. But the privatisation of the state railway British Railways in 1994 brought ever greater problems to the once innovative British railway system. Now the railways are being nationalised again. We report on this in detail in a portrait of the British railways in issue 3-4/2024 of CARGO FREIGHT JOURNAL (cover on the left).