having that said even regional trains are fucking expensive

I went to an airshow earlier this year with the train, if it wasn't for the 16 euro event ticket I'd have to pay 40 euros for a retour

student-sale gets you -40% off of any train

one hour ride ffs

it used to be 50 but they lowered the deal

prices seem alright, here it's around 15 to go to brussels from antwerp and back

for adults my old work travel would have costed 60-120 depending on how early i know i was needed

I feel you on the sleeper train slowley dying.

:D

(plane flight was usualy 40 or 60 if i was on time

I really cant justify one and a half days if travel when I could get a flight cheaper and be done in 4 hours

id love to travel so long travels

https://www.seat61.com/

longest i have taken was special train what was from top of laplands tracks to helsinki

paid 80 happily from that sleeper seat (230 for average joes would have been the price)

this website is a great source for trips by train

i'm dutch, we have the best train network in the entire world

but it's expensive as shit

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Trains are the worst of both world as you cant stop when you want to unless youre vancleef https://youtu.be/o1DcFhaCCwI

all went downhill when they privatised the shit

i stll have small dream of conquering the trans-siberia line from end to end

but daamn the tickets cost

they're going back to government owned though

beijing to moscow and from there to france train trip would be fucking amazeballs

buuut doshhhhh

It wont get better as they will retain the same dipshits who let it get bad. Privatized or public it doesnt matter if the people there dont care and hate thier job but refuse to quit

GroenLinks baby

they always advertise with "only 5% of all trains are late!" and shit but then don't conveniently mention that 15 minutes is the threshold they used

majority of connections are 5 minutes apart or so

so often you enter the station a minute or two late and have to run across multiple platforms so you can watch your train leave

I really liked taking public transport when I was visiting Stockholm

always on time and relatively cheap

hell i would have connections for cheaper trans-sib train too these days.. i just realised

i need to reach out for that shit tho

16 days of train travel tho

just the transsib and then the moscow > france (or berlin or or or ) added 7 days +-

i'd like to go amsterdam>moscow>beijing>shanghai sometime

ooh yeah true you could add shanghai to that too

just switch trains there

yeah plus it's a direct high-speed connection between beijing and shanghai