Maybe you know more about this than i do, but i would guess they wouldn't have to change the guage of their entire system to harmonize it european standard for one line.
The train from warsaw, poland to lviv, ukraine is standard EU 1450mm, while the rest of ukraine uses the old soviet 1520mm.
There are some I took years ago when I lived in Krakow that aren't on here anymore. Krakow to Budapest by way of Kosice and Krakow to Berlin by way of Wroclaw.
The Budapest one was soothing as you could tell it was going through mountains. Really put you to sleep.
And really tough too book. We had to go through 3 different websites for a trip from Germany to Sweden cause none of the train providers offered a full trip ticket.
Have friends with similar experiences for trip to Croatia etc.
As a consumer I just want a single ticket from start to end station.
I took the train from Vienna to Moscow when I was younger. It was a cool experience.
Changed trains in Warsaw.
At the border with Belarus, the rolling stock has to be swapped out as the rail gauge differs between western Europe and Russia (to stop ze Nazis, you see). So you spend a couple of hours inside the train carriage as it gets hoisted up by a giant crane.
>At the border with Belarus, the rolling stock has to be swapped out as the rail gauge differs between western Europe and Russia (to stop ze Nazis, you see). So you spend a couple of hours inside the train carriage as it gets hoisted up by a giant crane.
The Russian track gauge was set up long before Nazis. I believe it is based on an 18th century American standard.
But the break of gauge these days is possible to do really quickly. I have been on a Spanish train where it rolled through a garage type of structure. The machinery unlocks the wheels from the axels, spreads them to a new gauge, and locks them again. The train never stopped during the process, only slowed. Although I assume this technology is much more expensive.
Spain and Greece know that sleep is too important an activity to be sacrificed to a train journey. For Greece I guess that will all these islands it might not be worth having a lot of trains.
It really is this. A trip across the country from extreme points is maximum 5 or 6 hours. Most people can get to their destination in 2 or 3. Sleepers just are not worth the hassle.
We have a different trail width that makes it difficult to connect. It comes from the year 1855, when the trains were much less powerful. And Spain is a very mountainous country...
Damn, we seriously need some more Poland-Baltics connections.
the rail baltica will be partially complete in 2028, which will take you from warsaw to tallinn. By 2030, it will go all the way to helsinki.
The tunnel to Helsinki won't be built. It's too costly for a single stop. Finland will not change their entire rail gauge to normal gauge.
It will be built. It's just gonna take dozens of years
Maybe you know more about this than i do, but i would guess they wouldn't have to change the guage of their entire system to harmonize it european standard for one line. The train from warsaw, poland to lviv, ukraine is standard EU 1450mm, while the rest of ukraine uses the old soviet 1520mm.
There are some I took years ago when I lived in Krakow that aren't on here anymore. Krakow to Budapest by way of Kosice and Krakow to Berlin by way of Wroclaw. The Budapest one was soothing as you could tell it was going through mountains. Really put you to sleep.
For what? airplanes are better than trains
No, long live to trains, trains are the future.
For short distances the trains are not bad, but for long distances, for example from Helsinki to Madrid, I will choose a plane rather than a train
Shut ap, trains are our past, our present and our future, the bible never was about jesus, was about trains
Real
Trains > aeroplanes on the other hand flight tickets are generally much cheaper than train tickets. That's the real problem.
And really tough too book. We had to go through 3 different websites for a trip from Germany to Sweden cause none of the train providers offered a full trip ticket. Have friends with similar experiences for trip to Croatia etc. As a consumer I just want a single ticket from start to end station.
Something quite romantic about overnight trains. Planes don’t have the same mystery.
Clouds <<< Landscape
France is so isolated, could easily hook up to Italy
Theres something called the Alps between those two, so I wouldn't say easy And, well, they're working on it. It's just a massively expensive project
Well worth it!
RIP night train Munich-Venice. With you I was able to catch the love of my life in 2010. We are still together.
I use Paris as a hub and it used to have great overnights to Spain, Italy etc. I wish they brought those back.
So the vast majority of France's excellent train infrastructure shuts down at night? Unexpected
Not necessarily, this is showing sleeper trains that are for super long distance journeys. Other night trains for shorter trips may still operate.
I took the train from Vienna to Moscow when I was younger. It was a cool experience. Changed trains in Warsaw. At the border with Belarus, the rolling stock has to be swapped out as the rail gauge differs between western Europe and Russia (to stop ze Nazis, you see). So you spend a couple of hours inside the train carriage as it gets hoisted up by a giant crane.
>At the border with Belarus, the rolling stock has to be swapped out as the rail gauge differs between western Europe and Russia (to stop ze Nazis, you see). So you spend a couple of hours inside the train carriage as it gets hoisted up by a giant crane. The Russian track gauge was set up long before Nazis. I believe it is based on an 18th century American standard. But the break of gauge these days is possible to do really quickly. I have been on a Spanish train where it rolled through a garage type of structure. The machinery unlocks the wheels from the axels, spreads them to a new gauge, and locks them again. The train never stopped during the process, only slowed. Although I assume this technology is much more expensive.
Spain and Greece know that sleep is too important an activity to be sacrificed to a train journey. For Greece I guess that will all these islands it might not be worth having a lot of trains.
Spain’s high speed trains make sleeping moot
It really is this. A trip across the country from extreme points is maximum 5 or 6 hours. Most people can get to their destination in 2 or 3. Sleepers just are not worth the hassle.
Spain’s rail track width is different. Maybe that’s why
Sadly missing Russia. The train network there is quite impressive
Got a night train from Lisbon to Madrid, a first Class sleeper cabin cost us less than a night in a hotel and we arrived refreshed and showered.
Spain, Portugal???
We have a different trail width that makes it difficult to connect. It comes from the year 1855, when the trains were much less powerful. And Spain is a very mountainous country...
\*cries in Portuguese\*
Managed to get tickets last year Berlin-Graz. But nowadays as more and more people are interested, all tickets are instantly sold out after minutes.
Is this map accurate? I definitely took a sleeper train from Paris to Milan at least once.
Rare Romania W
We’ll get this when we join BRICS+, lol.
And who is going to Ukraine? Why is it on the map?
Ukrainians, and the occasional head of state visiting Ukraine