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I live in germany and had never any struggle with the railway system except for the fuckin delays with the Deutsche Bahn. Travel frequently to amsterdam, prague, switzerland, austria and other places by train, never had any issues. If i want to go further, i fly of course just to save the time
The mess with international ticketing is horrible indeed. For your trip to Prague, an Interrail ticket if booking last minute or a ticket to Prague via Berlin booked with DB seems to work pretty well, it's only one change.
While certain countries are pushing back against a more open system to train ticketing, surely we can start implementing something with the countries that are more open? This would demonstrate it works and also put more public pressure one the laggards. My belief is that the public will complain once they have seen it works well elsewhere and then wonder why it isn’t available in their country.
I don't believe that countries will convert their electrification systems to 25 kV AC any time soon. First of all there this will render most of their rolling sock useless. Czechia and Slovakia are in a unique situation here, as they both had two systems right from the start, and most of their rolling stock can already run on both 3 kV DC and 25 kV AC. Second, differences in electrification systems are no longer such a big deal as they used to be. There are many locos, and EMUs that can run on 3 (New Pendolino) or even on all 4 (TGV POS, ICE 3M) systems. The only problem here is with the high speed lines, as 1.5 kV and 3 kV DC aren't really suitable for those, especially above 250 km/h. But all new HSLs are being build with 15 or 25 kV AC anyway.
It is even less likely that Ukraine an Moldova will convert to the standard gauge, again for the sake of compatibility with the existing rolling stock. What is more likely is that they will follow Spain, with HSLs in standard gauge, and conventional lines as they are, in broad gauge. Also, there are variable gauge systems, that allow trains to change the gauge without stopping. Spain even has high speed trains that can do that (although not at the full speed).
haha, kudos to you! im am german and always wondert why our EU rail network is this shit. 😀
Well in this case i will fly or take a cruise, thats faster and reliable. 🙂
You can win a bit of flexibility by using an Interrail ticket (and for those not resident in participating countries, there is Eurail). I find that for many journeys, it is cheaper. Trains with seat reservations need you to reserve separately with your ticket, however those trains also usually carry coaches that are for non-reserving passengers.
I was surprised to see this video as I just had a great time traveling between Switzerland and Italy last month. Using the Eu rail pass, I was able to change tickets multiple times on the rail planner app. The one time that a delayed Italian train resulted in missing the connecting train, the local office in Milan changed the tickets for free. The local apps Sbb and Trenitalia gave the up to date timings for their respective trains
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I dont really understand why every country should change they electricity except D A and CH? Why should they not change also to 25KV, 50Hz AC?
They have a 15kV 16.7Hz?
I am curious what do you think about the Shinkansen (Japan Bullet Trains) and how do you think it would be if it was applied in Europe and/or America? I really enjoy your videos and learn a lot. Thank you.
Europe isn’t that bad connected really. At least not the Area: Netherland-Belgium-Germany-France-Great Britain and Luxemburgh. As most Countries are either served by Eurostar and Thalys, most of the time you don’t even realize that you entered a new country. Spain and portugal are a bit different, as they have a different gauge in terms of rails and they will not be able to change it. But pretty much every European country is easy to enter which lots of international rail services. You can enter 6 countries from cologne for example without changing trains (Austria-switzerland-luxemburgh-The Netherlands-Belgium-France) thats quite impressive if you ask me.
Still better than the state of US rail.
Why don't they do all of this stuff now? Why does France want to sabotage competition (beyond the surface-level obvious money and/or power explanations) at the expense of their citizens? It'd take time to implement, but they can choose to start trying any time they want, which includes now. That part doesn't have to be gradual. So… Why is it like this? Why are things like this? ~Cherri
This is why you drive, and I have driven 2100km in 2 nights of sleep. Across a continent or giant island.
I went from Kyiv to Warsaw in 2019 and did not have any issues even though they are supposed to have a different gauge. The train was searched by Polish police/customs but never had to leave the train so guess they are somehow compatible. Sweden and Denmark did not use to be compatible back in the day but think that Sweden changed.
I am an American. I have taken one international train from Hamburg to Copenhagen. Nothing but positives for me. I was a kid but I remember vividly the price of 134 euro for three people lol.
Why is Susex different?
Is the guy from The Room a Hungarian?
Legacy is hard to modernise; what a shock. NB. For what its worth, I bought a ticket on DB to go from London to Moscow (via Brussels and Cologne) fifteen years ago! So there's definitely some ticket integration out there.
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The EU council is a shitshow and needs to be burned. Europe should be ruled democratically, not be held hostage by a secret circle of nation statesmen who can veto everything the parliament wants to implement.
I like to imagine this man did the research and wrote the entire script on his return trip, on some very slow trains.
I’d make fun of Europe but I’m American; therefore, disqualified.
Just interrail bro fs
ah yes the öbb nightjet, a beautiful nightmare
Localement, ok
Internationalement non🤔
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Never knew europe had this prob lol
But – do u hate russia so much? Calling them no go zones lol – they might end up having more rail 😋
the real adam something would never find a flaw in trains
Based upon my experience living in Poland I can see problems you pinpointed to be true even for local polish train system. Our operators use shitty websites with randomized seat selection and buggy interfaces. There is no transparency when it comes to the informations given to the train passangers. Biggest issue is still financing, there are many abandoned rail connections that should be modernized but as a center of power in Poland lies in the Warsaw, every penny is invested in connections related to Warsaw. Having that much internal problems, I cannot imagine focusing on some of the interoperability points. Still, there are still many ways to use trains for traveling across Europe. Living in northern Poland we tend to use various means of transportation from planes, cars, trains to even ships when it comes to scandinavian travels.
Yeah pretty much.
Riding a train inside a country – no problem (unless your name is Polish National Railways) but intercountry trains? Well…good fucking luck.
The problem with electrification system especially with Germany kind of has been dealed with multi-system locomotives. Those are constantly crousing through Bad Schandau towards the Czech Republic. It's sad but ultimately not surprising that the new ICE's from DB don't have this tech that we have since the 1950s if not earlier.
You have interrail
What you didn't mentioned is, even your train use the same voltage does not mean it can drive in a other country.
Pantographs have different size and and the EMC rules are different means the frequency the can radiate are different.
The second one can be done by software. But the first one is a big problem when you don't have enough space for
multipel pantograph on your roof.
The app Id recommend for train tickets across central and western Europe is Trainline, it can’t buy every ticket but it can usually get most and will tell you where to buy the ticket you can’t get through their app, I used it this summer and it worked fairly decently across 8 different countries. Slovenia, Czechia, Italy, Switzerland, France, Hungary, Austria and Slovakia. Not in that order
Drive 5 hrs to Tampa, fly 2-3 hrs to Charlottesville, layover 1-2 hr, then fly 2 hrs to Detroit.
Or if you prefer ease and comfort: take a Greyhound 6+ hours to Tampa (accounting for possible layover), wake up 30 minutes past your required destination, get off and walk 30 minutes to the nearest Waffle House before your phone dies, at which you wait 1 hr for the only Uber 40 minutes away to pick you up (b/c it's 5 am), proceed to the airport and begin flights as stated above.
I can single handedly vouch for the effectiveness of this travel schedule: 4/5 stars (or 5/5 stars if you get waffles).