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European night trains map 2024 (files.catbox.moe)
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Interactive version: https://back-on-track.eu/night-train-map/

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[–] ambitious_bones 34 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Spain and Portugal: no thank you

[–] az04 29 points 5 days ago

It existed up until the pandemic, Trenhotel, I took it once. Fell asleep in the center of Madrid, woke up in downtown Lisbon. The trip had beautiful snowy landscapes lit by the full moon. It's such a shame it's gone.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

And Ireland? Or is the map just having a very specific interpretation of "Europe"?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Are there night trains in Ireland?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

There are no trains in Ireland T_T

Even the fucking Bus Eireann wouldn't go all the way to Donegal back in the naughts because fuck driving all the way up there, right? Capitalism at its finest.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

a night bus use to be seasonal till few years ago XD

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I don't know, but that'd be the point, right? If it framed Western Europe we'd know that those countries don't have any, but cutting them off just makes it ambiguous.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I see it more like "Ireland doesn't have night trains, so let's focus the map on the part of Europe where they have most of them"

Edit: the interactive version can be found here: https://back-on-track.eu/night-train-map/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

night trains are for long distances. Can't really do that on an island. Night trains are basically just sleeper trains, but those connections need more than 3-4 hours of distance to make sense

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago

... yes, I know what a night train is. Your point?

For the record, there are far longer routes in Ireland, Spain and Portugal and far shorter routes captured in the map (in distance, we could have a long talk about the pros and cons of promoting overnight train over high speed rail for the same trip).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Tried to get a train to a festival in Portugal next year. Not a chance. 24H travel time, multiple layovers at remote stations... 200€ per person.

Flight, 90€, 3H... Sorry climate. ={

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

They used to have the Pau Casals train BCN-ZRH but they deemed it non profitable or something :(