OT: of interest for inter-European travel

OT: of interest for inter-European travel

[Alan BRASLAU]

The Deutsche Bahn and its partners in Danemark, in the Netherlands, in
France, in Switzerland and in the Czech Republic plan to close the
following overnight train lines at the end of the year 2014:

Amsterdam-Copenhague
Copenhague-Prague
Prague-Amsterdam
Bâle-Copenhague
Berlin-Paris
Hambourg-Paris
Paris-Munich

As long as the overnight train lines to/from Bachotex remain in
operation, perhaps we will not be to affected by this "progress". ;)

Alan
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Re: OT: of interest for inter-European travel

[Hans Hagen]

On 11/2/2014 4:10 PM, Alan BRASLAU wrote:
> The Deutsche Bahn and its partners in Danemark, in the Netherlands, in
> France, in Switzerland and in the Czech Republic plan to close the
> following overnight train lines at the end of the year 2014:
>
> Amsterdam-Copenhague
> Copenhague-Prague
> Prague-Amsterdam
> Bâle-Copenhague
> Berlin-Paris
> Hambourg-Paris
> Paris-Munich
>
> As long as the overnight train lines to/from Bachotex remain in
> operation, perhaps we will not be to affected by this "progress". ;)

I can understand it for the Netherlands as they cannot get their high 
speed tracks and trains up and running (instead of outsourcing in europe 
they should have hired Japanese companies instead).

(A few days ago I passed by train the tracks where these non-functional 
italian high speed trains are stalled ... overpainted by graffity in the 
meantime. It's always fun to drive by car along the dedicated expensive 
track for container-trains ... that track kind of stops at the german 
border.)

Hans

ps. Texies travel to BT by bus.



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Re: OT: of interest for inter-European travel

[Alan BRASLAU]

On Sun, 2 Nov 2014 18:05:44 +0100
Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:

> I can understand it for the Netherlands as they cannot get their high 
> speed tracks and trains up and running (instead of outsourcing in
> europe they should have hired Japanese companies instead).
> 
> (A few days ago I passed by train the tracks where these
> non-functional italian high speed trains are stalled ... overpainted
> by graffity in the meantime. It's always fun to drive by car along
> the dedicated expensive track for container-trains ... that track
> kind of stops at the german border.)

We are talking about "traditional" overnight trains, not high-speed
trains. But it is indeed investment in high-speed trains that is
killing lower-cost, traditional rail.

> ps. Texies travel to BT by bus.

I know, I tried seeing about getting there by train and concluded that
it was faster and cheaper to carpool with Taco, driving first to the
Netherlands!

Alan
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