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In my near future I see multiple one hour flights around the UK, France, Spain and Portugal.
This is because the rail service, while the track exists, is not fit for purpose.
Dear Europe, stop fucking about with fascism and sort the bloody trains out. euronews.com/green/2024/07/02/…
Here’s what I would regard as a minimum viable standard to even start to be some sort of competitor for air travel: low season, if I can travel from Faro to London, including a sleeper berth, for 150 euros, and buy the ticket on Trainline dot com in 10 minutes.
It doesn’t even start to come close, and is never projected to.
And here’s how the experience by rail currently starts:
From Faro: take a bus to Seville. Book a hotel.
Faro is connected to the European rail network, but there are no tickets available to any other country.
@goatsarah American rail experience: there's a rail line that goes where I want to get to, but the branch lines are all freight lines only these days, so I'll have to pack myself into a crate or take multiple buses.