Romanian trains are so slw that you’ve to spend the night in them.
For the last time, think before you post people.
a lot of memories come up, did interrail in 2011 through Eastern Europe all the awy to Istanbul and back via Greece on the ferry to italy. Great trip, still remember gettin out in Belgrad midnight, felt like the beginning of a horror movie. sadly the european nght train network got cut down a lot.
great way to travel
Typcal Ireland…
Why u need train when u get anywhere in Ireland in around 6h
And Ireland has no use for them, so why would we have them?
Yes because I want to leave Dublin at 10pm to arrive in cork at 130am.
No chance of a midnight train to Georgia then.
Probably because there’s no reason.
You mean, unlike the rest of Europe except the other countries that don’t?
We’re a tiny country with no land connections to the continent. Night train would be utterly pointless unless you have a burning need to be in Cork at 3 am.
Just a pain if having a night out in town and want to take public transport back instead of a taxi
Sure what would ya be doing travelling at night? There’s nothing to see
For a night train to be useful it needs a greater than 8 hour journey. Any journey that picks you up or drops you off in the middle of the night is just going to be a horrible experience.
That said, I’m always surprised no-one has done a tourist train here that people sleep on board.
Most of those routes are international? Why would we need night trains?
Spain have used EU money to build an amazing high speed rail network. I honestly can’t figure out why we’re not doing the same. The money is there, we just have to do the paperwork to get it.
The EU will match any investment on transport infrastructure. The EU investment bank will give ridiculously low interest loans for investment in transport infrastructure. There’s no reason not to.
I know we have to be very very careful with the tech tax billions, but infrastructure investment should be a safe enough use. Norway used some of their oil billions on infrastructure and their economy worked out fine.
Ireland has nothing like the rest of europe….. Must be at least what 20 or 30 years behind mist european countries?
We need faster trains and Dart Underground.
Nether does the Faroe Islands. What’s your point?
Edit: it is an interesting map tbf
But according to the poem night trains must cross the border (to bring the mail and the postal order), so perhaps during the troubles they just closed NI each evening.
Neither does Denmark , a similarly sized population. Size of population = more services
What is the demand for night trains? When you can get anywhere in a few hundred kilometres in this country the demand for long range over night services obviously disappears.
What even was the point of this crosspost OP. SERIOUSLY. Would you ever conceivably use or need access to a night train in this country?
Iceland is not included there but there are no night trains there either. In fact, there are no trains at all
Ireland needs more trains, I’m just saying it. We should re open lines like the great northern railway
Ireland barely has evening trains….
Let’s try getting them on time and in good frequencies first lol
Cause they have to take the rails in at night.
As a public transport nerd who wants to immigrate to Ireland I was sad at first…
until it clicked
Ireland is an Island, a relatively small island. The distance from Houston to Dallas is only 30 miles less than the distance from Belfast to Cork.
Where would you go that required an overnight trip?
Night trains are dying out. HSR removes the need
Ireland don’t need night train unless one day in future we can built bridge over or under sea to reach Europe.
What we need really is to extend train times so people who commute can find trains to reach commute towns at least until midnight.
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You can get on a train now and it’d be dark, so…
Netherlands and Denmark also don’t have any.
Axl Rose wouldn’t be happy.
Shir you’d take a shite and you’d be from Dublin to Galway
No time to sleep
Given that the longest train journey is probably Dublin to Cork and it’s about 2.5 hours, overnight trains are a bit pointless…
Our trains all take like max three and a half hours to get anywhere?
I forgot about Netherlandexit
[I wouldn’t take one after hearing this stern warning ](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VMDljoM5JFI)
or buses
Netherlands doesn’t either which is surprising.
Romanian trains are so slw that you’ve to spend the night in them.
For the last time, think before you post people.
a lot of memories come up, did interrail in 2011 through Eastern Europe all the awy to Istanbul and back via Greece on the ferry to italy. Great trip, still remember gettin out in Belgrad midnight, felt like the beginning of a horror movie. sadly the european nght train network got cut down a lot.
great way to travel
Typcal Ireland…
Why u need train when u get anywhere in Ireland in around 6h
And Ireland has no use for them, so why would we have them?
Yes because I want to leave Dublin at 10pm to arrive in cork at 130am.
No chance of a midnight train to Georgia then.
Probably because there’s no reason.
You mean, unlike the rest of Europe except the other countries that don’t?
We’re a tiny country with no land connections to the continent. Night train would be utterly pointless unless you have a burning need to be in Cork at 3 am.
Just a pain if having a night out in town and want to take public transport back instead of a taxi
Sure what would ya be doing travelling at night? There’s nothing to see
For a night train to be useful it needs a greater than 8 hour journey. Any journey that picks you up or drops you off in the middle of the night is just going to be a horrible experience.
That said, I’m always surprised no-one has done a tourist train here that people sleep on board.
Most of those routes are international? Why would we need night trains?
Spain have used EU money to build an amazing high speed rail network. I honestly can’t figure out why we’re not doing the same. The money is there, we just have to do the paperwork to get it.
The EU will match any investment on transport infrastructure. The EU investment bank will give ridiculously low interest loans for investment in transport infrastructure. There’s no reason not to.
I know we have to be very very careful with the tech tax billions, but infrastructure investment should be a safe enough use. Norway used some of their oil billions on infrastructure and their economy worked out fine.
Ireland has nothing like the rest of europe….. Must be at least what 20 or 30 years behind mist european countries?
We need faster trains and Dart Underground.
Nether does the Faroe Islands. What’s your point?
Edit: it is an interesting map tbf
But according to the poem night trains must cross the border (to bring the mail and the postal order), so perhaps during the troubles they just closed NI each evening.
Neither does Denmark , a similarly sized population. Size of population = more services
What is the demand for night trains? When you can get anywhere in a few hundred kilometres in this country the demand for long range over night services obviously disappears.
What even was the point of this crosspost OP. SERIOUSLY. Would you ever conceivably use or need access to a night train in this country?
Iceland is not included there but there are no night trains there either. In fact, there are no trains at all
Ireland needs more trains, I’m just saying it. We should re open lines like the great northern railway
Ireland barely has evening trains….
Let’s try getting them on time and in good frequencies first lol
Cause they have to take the rails in at night.
As a public transport nerd who wants to immigrate to Ireland I was sad at first…
until it clicked
Ireland is an Island, a relatively small island. The distance from Houston to Dallas is only 30 miles less than the distance from Belfast to Cork.
Where would you go that required an overnight trip?
Night trains are dying out. HSR removes the need
Ireland don’t need night train unless one day in future we can built bridge over or under sea to reach Europe.
What we need really is to extend train times so people who commute can find trains to reach commute towns at least until midnight.
Ireland barely has DAY trains..