Ok, but Spain has a lot of incidents than can make one gat late to your destination.
When they run
Some of the countries with the most laid-back reputations have the fastest trains.
Renfe deservedly gets a lot of shit but man is it nice to have most of the country connected with pretty decent service
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I took the train in Spain and was doing 270 km not 190. This is bloody wrong…
Spanish people complain about their infrastructure without having a frame of reference
I feel like using average speed is silly, there’s probably a more precise way of conveying railway efficiency. A country with mostly straight tracks will have more avg speed than one with lots of curves due to terrain.
Choo Choo! About time for High speed trains!
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This is because Spain has long routes that run almost only high speed trains. Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands have a lot more of shorter and slower trains. The average speed tells you vetter little of the quality of the train lines IMO
The real problem is people, I think many here are too young to remember what was happening in the past 20 years, in many regions when the government tried to expand infrastructure and connect cities with train lines. Back then, people protested, saying the trains would take away jobs like bus drivers and such. In places like Barcelona, Basque, parts of Castilla-La Mancha, and Andalusia, there was strong opposition. In Jaén, for example, they built railway tracks that are now just decoration because people rejected the idea. The root of the issue was some dumb Catalan politician who pushed this anti-train narrative, and people believed it. Now, the whole country suffers driving is expensive, and those trains could’ve made life so much easier
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Ok, but Spain has a lot of incidents than can make one gat late to your destination.
When they run
Some of the countries with the most laid-back reputations have the fastest trains.
Renfe deservedly gets a lot of shit but man is it nice to have most of the country connected with pretty decent service
Seguro que los que van a 27.6 són más puntuales
I took the train in Spain and was doing 270 km not 190. This is bloody wrong…
Spanish people complain about their infrastructure without having a frame of reference
I feel like using average speed is silly, there’s probably a more precise way of conveying railway efficiency. A country with mostly straight tracks will have more avg speed than one with lots of curves due to terrain.
Choo Choo! About time for High speed trains!
New map of Western Europe just dropped
This is because Spain has long routes that run almost only high speed trains. Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands have a lot more of shorter and slower trains. The average speed tells you vetter little of the quality of the train lines IMO
The real problem is people, I think many here are too young to remember what was happening in the past 20 years, in many regions when the government tried to expand infrastructure and connect cities with train lines. Back then, people protested, saying the trains would take away jobs like bus drivers and such. In places like Barcelona, Basque, parts of Castilla-La Mancha, and Andalusia, there was strong opposition. In Jaén, for example, they built railway tracks that are now just decoration because people rejected the idea. The root of the issue was some dumb Catalan politician who pushed this anti-train narrative, and people believed it. Now, the whole country suffers driving is expensive, and those trains could’ve made life so much easier
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