Night trains are great. I took an ÖBB nightjet before the pandemic and it was super comfortable and reasonably priced. I do wonder about how easy it is to increase services though, afaik many lines are already crammed with morning passenger trains and cargo trains by night in many parts of Europe.
EU just loves that stuff, it can never get enough, it’s on a night train.
as much as i love them you’ve got to make them cheaper than flight. It’s already longer people need some advantage to taking the train and not everybody can afford to care abotu the environment. That for me is a significant dealbreaker.
they are a complete waste of money unless you are looking for the experience of being in a train. People use budget airlines* because they are faster and cheaper.
Then the EU countries need to make train tickets cheaper.
I don’t want people having sex in a train
It needs to be like half the price of airplane travel to make up for the extra hours.
Tbh I think trains are an obsolete technology for long distance travel.
Busses beat them as well IMO. With busses you can create and delete routes easily, trains you can’t change the route or add new stops freely. Also thinking that electrical busses should make it CO2-acceptable and it would be more efficiant.
Have tried many times to ride in a JUUUGE train with hardly any people in it – IDK how it can be efficient to haul an emourmous amount of metal between cities to transport just a few people. But that’s the problem again, trains are very inflexible.
*What if we kissed on the night train 😳👉🏻👈🏻*
Night trains are a great way to save on hotel spend if you’re traveling across Europe.
I haven’t done it yet but will definitely be looking forward to it
I see all these trains ads which try to make you forget that train speed and cost is an inconvenience so they try to sell it as a fairy tale train ride for Christmas or whatever
The person who made these ads must be really into toy trains
This headline put an idea in my head of what the article would be about, that idea was wrong.
I would be content with simply having trains.
Good idea, but I am not taking the train to travel through Germany. I am *so* done with that, and seeing how Germany is pretty central to all my travels in Europe, that is a bit of a problem.
The headline makes it sound like the EU is going to require us to be fucking on the night train… which, I mean, not *the worst* advertisement campaign.
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Night trains are great. I took an ÖBB nightjet before the pandemic and it was super comfortable and reasonably priced. I do wonder about how easy it is to increase services though, afaik many lines are already crammed with morning passenger trains and cargo trains by night in many parts of Europe.
EU just loves that stuff, it can never get enough, it’s on a night train.
as much as i love them you’ve got to make them cheaper than flight. It’s already longer people need some advantage to taking the train and not everybody can afford to care abotu the environment. That for me is a significant dealbreaker.
they are a complete waste of money unless you are looking for the experience of being in a train. People use budget airlines* because they are faster and cheaper.
Then the EU countries need to make train tickets cheaper.
I don’t want people having sex in a train
It needs to be like half the price of airplane travel to make up for the extra hours.
Tbh I think trains are an obsolete technology for long distance travel.
Busses beat them as well IMO. With busses you can create and delete routes easily, trains you can’t change the route or add new stops freely. Also thinking that electrical busses should make it CO2-acceptable and it would be more efficiant.
Have tried many times to ride in a JUUUGE train with hardly any people in it – IDK how it can be efficient to haul an emourmous amount of metal between cities to transport just a few people. But that’s the problem again, trains are very inflexible.
*What if we kissed on the night train 😳👉🏻👈🏻*
Night trains are a great way to save on hotel spend if you’re traveling across Europe.
I haven’t done it yet but will definitely be looking forward to it
I see all these trains ads which try to make you forget that train speed and cost is an inconvenience so they try to sell it as a fairy tale train ride for Christmas or whatever
The person who made these ads must be really into toy trains
This headline put an idea in my head of what the article would be about, that idea was wrong.
I would be content with simply having trains.
Good idea, but I am not taking the train to travel through Germany. I am *so* done with that, and seeing how Germany is pretty central to all my travels in Europe, that is a bit of a problem.
The headline makes it sound like the EU is going to require us to be fucking on the night train… which, I mean, not *the worst* advertisement campaign.
I like planes more.
Buy me a ticket on the last train home tonight.