Dense but slow lines like in Czechia or fast but rare lines like in Spain?
Before communism, Czechia was on par with Germany, the UK etc. in development, and I think this can be seen here because of the dense railroad system Czechia still has.
Northern Ireland, wot u doin m8?
So connected and yet so divided. Try to take a train from Finland to Sweden for example. And yes, gauge-changing trains do exist for example in Spain.
You can tell where the capitals or main cities are by finding thick railway intersections
I’d really love to see an interconnected european high speed railway system that includes all the large population centers and approaches the smaller ones, too (like putting a larger station in the middle of a big, but less densely populated area).
That could help reduce continental air travel while inviting people to visit their neighbors more (or more neighbors)
I don’t know what’s going on in the Irish Midlands.
The best thing is in Poland the capitalists destroyed thousands of km of railways. Now everybody is crying and begging the EU to help.
when your rail system has better density then your bus system
I love that I can see my own local branch on this map
Imagine having a direct route from Groning (NL) to Leer (DE). How long has it been since we lost that? 5 years?
Czechia and Saxony seem to have kept their lines after the collapse of communism. Good for them
Beautiful.
Nuts to me that Sardinia seems to have more railway than all of Greece
Fun fact: when Norway built the Bergen line (from Oslo To Bergen) the cost was equivalent to the annual budget of the entire country. That’s how expensive it is to build roads and railroads over/through/around mountains lol.
Zoom into the Netherlands.
See that gap towards the top?
Yeah that’s where I work.
Now guess who doesn’t have a driver’s license?
Fml.
There’s more in Greece. Idk why they aren’t listed…
I’d just like to point out you can travel every last mile of this map for a massively reduced rate if you’re < 27 years old.
[Interrail passes](https://www.interrail.eu/en/interrail-passes/global-pass) are a great way to spend a month or so backpacking around Europe, can highly recommend! Between the pass and hostels, you can have a trip of a lifetime for not so much money.
For Serbia and Croatia it’s incredibly disappointing to see how much it was reduced compared to Austro-Hungary.
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Iceland rather letting the team down.
Germany’s like “choo choo!”
Greece and Turkey have barely any, I’m assuming it’s the mountainous terrain?
I’m not convinced how accurate this is, like there’s no rails going into northern Finland, Rovaniemi.
Pretty funny to the isolated specks of rail in the UK corresponding with heritage railway lines (often maintained by volunteers).
Man fuck the Beeching Report, [we truly lost so much infrastructure](https://i.redd.it/r0ypgwbv6ri31.jpg)
So which one you prefer?
Dense but slow lines like in Czechia or fast but rare lines like in Spain?
Before communism, Czechia was on par with Germany, the UK etc. in development, and I think this can be seen here because of the dense railroad system Czechia still has.
Northern Ireland, wot u doin m8?
So connected and yet so divided. Try to take a train from Finland to Sweden for example. And yes, gauge-changing trains do exist for example in Spain.
[Map for Poland from 1952](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/PKP1952-53.jpg?1638708248611) visible big difference in line coverage. Remnants of partitions of Poland. [r/WidacZabory](https://www.reddit.com/r/WidacZabory/)
You can tell where the capitals or main cities are by finding thick railway intersections
I’d really love to see an interconnected european high speed railway system that includes all the large population centers and approaches the smaller ones, too (like putting a larger station in the middle of a big, but less densely populated area).
That could help reduce continental air travel while inviting people to visit their neighbors more (or more neighbors)
I don’t know what’s going on in the Irish Midlands.
The best thing is in Poland the capitalists destroyed thousands of km of railways. Now everybody is crying and begging the EU to help.
when your rail system has better density then your bus system
I love that I can see my own local branch on this map
Imagine having a direct route from Groning (NL) to Leer (DE). How long has it been since we lost that? 5 years?
Czechia and Saxony seem to have kept their lines after the collapse of communism. Good for them
Beautiful.
Nuts to me that Sardinia seems to have more railway than all of Greece
Fun fact: when Norway built the Bergen line (from Oslo To Bergen) the cost was equivalent to the annual budget of the entire country. That’s how expensive it is to build roads and railroads over/through/around mountains lol.
Zoom into the Netherlands.
See that gap towards the top?
Yeah that’s where I work.
Now guess who doesn’t have a driver’s license?
Fml.
There’s more in Greece. Idk why they aren’t listed…
I’d just like to point out you can travel every last mile of this map for a massively reduced rate if you’re < 27 years old.
[Interrail passes](https://www.interrail.eu/en/interrail-passes/global-pass) are a great way to spend a month or so backpacking around Europe, can highly recommend! Between the pass and hostels, you can have a trip of a lifetime for not so much money.
For Serbia and Croatia it’s incredibly disappointing to see how much it was reduced compared to Austro-Hungary.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/Austro-Hungarian_railway_map.jpg
And nothing is more disappointing then to learn that the fact that it used to take less time to Vienna then than it does now.
https://alternativetransport.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/austro-hungarian-empire-railway-network-1912-2-1-smallmid-size.png