🚄✈️ Why is it still so hard to choose a train over a plane?

On many long-distance routes in Europe, choosing the train can feel like a borderline heroic decision. It’s often more expensive, takes longer, and can be less reliable when connections are tight.

This week we spoke to cross-border rail advocate @jon about what Europe would need to change to make rail the obvious choice, not a moral gesture.

Here’s his recipe. THREAD:

#trains #travel #europe #infrastructure

And this week I heard there is not one single seat available between Copenhagen and Hamburg the weekend *before* Easter. That effectively means no-one from anywhere in Scandinavia can travel to the rest of Europe by train, because there isn't enough capacity in the system 🤬

https://mastodon.social/@europeanspodcast/116141784022064980
europeanspodcast@mastodon.social - 🚄✈️ Why is it still so hard to choose a train over a plane?

On many long-distance routes in Europe, choosing the train can feel like a borderline heroic decision. It’s often more expensive, takes longer, and can be less reliable when connections are tight.

This week we spoke to cross-border rail advocate @jon about what Europe would need to change to make rail the obvious choice, not a moral gesture.

Here’s his recipe. THREAD:

#trains #travel #europe #infrastructure

And this week I heard there is not one single seat available between Copenhagen and Hamburg the weekend *before* Easter. That effectively means no-one from anywhere in Scandinavia can travel to the rest of Europe by train, because there isn't enough capacity in the system 🤬

https://mastodon.social/@europeanspodcast/116141784022064980
europeanspodcast@mastodon.social - 🚄✈️ Why is it still so hard to choose a train over a plane?

On many long-distance routes in Europe, choosing the train can feel like a borderline heroic decision. It’s often more expensive, takes longer, and can be less reliable when connections are tight.

This week we spoke to cross-border rail advocate @jon about what Europe would need to change to make rail the obvious choice, not a moral gesture.

Here’s his recipe. THREAD:

#trains #travel #europe #infrastructure

Found an old Ladybird Book of British Railway Locomotives in a charity shop and nabbed it for a friend’s kid. Scanned in the illustration on the cover so I could also add it to the mailing label, so here, internet, have a pretty thing – as the original scan and a quickly cleaned-up 1-bit version.

#railways #trains #locomotives #BritishRail

🚄✈️ Why is it still so hard to choose a train over a plane?

On many long-distance routes in Europe, choosing the train can feel like a borderline heroic decision. It’s often more expensive, takes longer, and can be less reliable when connections are tight.

This week we spoke to cross-border rail advocate @jon about what Europe would need to change to make rail the obvious choice, not a moral gesture.

Here’s his recipe. THREAD:

#trains #travel #europe #infrastructure

What’s the Point of Pointing in Japan, Anyway? | Atlas Obscura

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZun7IvqMvE

#japan #trains

8/n One man making a conference call, two other men yapping at each other, guy next to me on his fourth phone call. Sad to report that silence is too much to ask of a 1st class quiet zone.

#LatourOnTour #QuietZone #DeutscheBahn #Trains #Travelogue

8/n One man making a conference call, two other men yapping at each other, guy next to me on his fourth phone call. Sad to report that silence is too much to ask of a 1st class quiet zone.

#LatourOnTour #QuietZone #DeutscheBahn #Trains #Travelogue

1/n I’m on a long train trip again! I’m almost out of data, and have a ton of work to do, but will try to share interesting updates if they arise.

Before the internet starts mansplaining trains again:
- yes, I’m aware of the existence of quiet cars,
- yes, I book my seats in advance, and in those quiet cars if available,
- yes, I know that I can book 1st class tickets and do so depending on availability and other factors.

In fact, I’ve been on my train for only 30 minutes and am already regretting paying an extra 20 € for first class. One of the passengers here is exceptionally disgusting, he’s sitting opposite of me, and it’s busy enough that I cannot really move.

#LatourOnTour #Treinleven #Trains #Travelogue

✈️ 🚂 🚗 Planes, Trains and Automobiles (and a cable car!) 🚡

Old cars taken for one last drive and dumped in forests. Cable cars left in silent stations. Soviet-era planes, once gate guardians to old air bases, now just an out-of-place curiosity. Huge rusting steam trains languishing in old collapsing depots.

https://www.obsidianurbexphotography.com/portfolio/abandoned-places/rusting-transport/

#Photography #Transport #History #Photography #Abandoned #Rust #Relic #Urbex #UrbanExploration #Trains

✈️ 🚂 🚗 Planes, Trains and Automobiles (and a cable car!) 🚡

Old cars taken for one last drive and dumped in forests. Cable cars left in silent stations. Soviet-era planes, once gate guardians to old air bases, now just an out-of-place curiosity. Huge rusting steam trains languishing in old collapsing depots.

https://www.obsidianurbexphotography.com/portfolio/abandoned-places/rusting-transport/

#Photography #Transport #History #Photography #Abandoned #Rust #Relic #Urbex #UrbanExploration #Trains

#Frankfurt, #Germany

A regional train passes a railroad crossing between flooded fields in Nidderau-Eichen, near Frankfurt

Photograph: Michael Probst/AP

#photography
#floods
#roads
#trains
#ClimateDiary

🚨 Our latest episode has just chugged into your podcast platforms 🚂

This week, we're chatting with @jon about Europe’s train woes, the fight for better cross-border travel, and the new European Rail Passengers’ Union.

Plus: social media bans for youth, an Olympics broadcast fail, and a herd of crime-fighting llamas 🦙.

https://www.europeanspodcast.com/all-episodes/when-will-europe-get-the-trains-it-deserves

#Europe #Podcast #CrossBorderRail #Trains