Pretty much impossible though, due to all the wars even now in the XXI. century cross-border train connections are atrocious. (looking at you Luxembourg). The ticket itself is a minor hurdle in this initiative.
daCampa on
“soon”
Independent_Pitch598 on
Very good
Questionsaboutsanity on
Germany would like a word…
marxxy94 on
from Moscow to Berlin in one tank
AssumptionExtra9041 on
You already can: InterRail / Eurail.
It is not perfectly smooth yet but works very well nonetheless. Especially for longer travel legs, it is also uite cheap. Plus, it basically acts as fully flexible ticket. Absolutely love it, despite its conplex reservation requirements for certain trains.
Alternative_Air6255 on
As someone from Romania when I think about travelling to The Netherlands or even just Germany, doing so by train doesn’t even cross my mind, at all. Trains are so inaccessible in Eastern Europe (Especially Romania, but I imagine Bulgaria faces the same struggle) it’s actually insane.
Trains in Romania officially travel **slower** than they did 30 years ago. For freight trains the average speed is 16kmh.
To add to this problem, there are few connections from Romania to outside countries. Only a few routes to Hungary, Austria, Czechia and Slovakia; nothing to Bulgaria or Greece, and most people don’t even know we have trains to those places.
Lately more attention has been given towards rail travel, and our country even bought **one** electric train, the first in the last 30 years I think. It was supposed to be in use from December last year. It **still** hasn’t been given to the public. Supposedly it can travel up to 160kmh, but I doubt there’s enough good railway infrastructure for it to actually achieve this speed.
CyberKiller40 on
I’m fine with mutliple tickets, just get me one system to schedule the ride and buy them! Going across boarders is hell, just to know which tool to use and see which country trains run where, and with a mixture of local or translated city and station names.
E.g. I’d like to ride from Wrocław (PL) through e.g. Praha (CZ) to Munchen (DE)… (which should be more or less a straight line) This requires me to do I have no idea even what, to find a train cause every country lists only their own destinations for their own trains, and the rare border crossing connections are a problem to schedule (like you can’t reserve a seat in CZ cars in a train running from PL and no mention of DE trains at all). I even tried asking this to the PL train customer service, so they specify me a way to go, but after over 20 minutes of searching and head scratching, they were unable to get anything.
dudek64 on
If its price is not lower than 2x the cost of gas, I am never buying it
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Pretty much impossible though, due to all the wars even now in the XXI. century cross-border train connections are atrocious. (looking at you Luxembourg). The ticket itself is a minor hurdle in this initiative.
“soon”
Very good
Germany would like a word…
from Moscow to Berlin in one tank
You already can: InterRail / Eurail.
It is not perfectly smooth yet but works very well nonetheless. Especially for longer travel legs, it is also uite cheap. Plus, it basically acts as fully flexible ticket. Absolutely love it, despite its conplex reservation requirements for certain trains.
As someone from Romania when I think about travelling to The Netherlands or even just Germany, doing so by train doesn’t even cross my mind, at all. Trains are so inaccessible in Eastern Europe (Especially Romania, but I imagine Bulgaria faces the same struggle) it’s actually insane.
Trains in Romania officially travel **slower** than they did 30 years ago. For freight trains the average speed is 16kmh.
To add to this problem, there are few connections from Romania to outside countries. Only a few routes to Hungary, Austria, Czechia and Slovakia; nothing to Bulgaria or Greece, and most people don’t even know we have trains to those places.
Lately more attention has been given towards rail travel, and our country even bought **one** electric train, the first in the last 30 years I think. It was supposed to be in use from December last year. It **still** hasn’t been given to the public. Supposedly it can travel up to 160kmh, but I doubt there’s enough good railway infrastructure for it to actually achieve this speed.
I’m fine with mutliple tickets, just get me one system to schedule the ride and buy them! Going across boarders is hell, just to know which tool to use and see which country trains run where, and with a mixture of local or translated city and station names.
E.g. I’d like to ride from Wrocław (PL) through e.g. Praha (CZ) to Munchen (DE)… (which should be more or less a straight line) This requires me to do I have no idea even what, to find a train cause every country lists only their own destinations for their own trains, and the rare border crossing connections are a problem to schedule (like you can’t reserve a seat in CZ cars in a train running from PL and no mention of DE trains at all). I even tried asking this to the PL train customer service, so they specify me a way to go, but after over 20 minutes of searching and head scratching, they were unable to get anything.
If its price is not lower than 2x the cost of gas, I am never buying it