Message from @Tervy
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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
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
and obviously when nkorea becomes freekorea
iirc it's a 4 hour ride or so
you can take that route there and skip chinkland pretty much
poor germans
i mean i cant care less about seeing "distractions" but the train journey itself would be probly nice
DB rolling in their graves and btfoing the whole country
Would it?youre in a very small cabin fir 16 days
i mean private lockable cabin (like it trust its lock anyway....)
this is the amount of comfyness I expect on my next train trip
@johnfrum and shit ton of people with life stories, a lot of scenery you have never seen, (hopefully by then elon_musk_internet_services.wifi) and ofc the feeling of journey
Suppose, I like to get to destinations, the travel can be in a dark shell fired from a giant cannon for all I care
sure but if you aim for that its just easier to take the day and fly to beijing/moscow
but trans-siberia is all about the journey not the destination really
http://www.trans-siberian-travel.com/your-private-train/bolshoi-platinum i mean it costs fuckton