vinnyt77 All have multiple mainline stations where you may need to change to get your onward international connection.
And there are a lot of them were you don’t, the whole point of the reintroduction of the TEE and sleeper cars is that they’re not waking any cunt up in the middle of the nigh to traipse between stations.
RichM Can you get on trains in other cities in France and go straight through to London? Or have to change at Paris?
Depends on individual routes, and the size of the cities, but the point is that for a lot of them you don’t have to change train or specifically to my point, station; some clever foreigner made sure the lines actually joined up, not terminate at different stations. Some of the services do make you change, even if there is a through line, as you might find for any journey (depends when you travel / ticket type etc) but at least they don’t make you walk to another station, it’s all in the same station. Oh, and, this is really fuckin important to remember, and I can’t say it enough; just because someone else isn’t doing it, doesn’t mean we shouldn’t. It doesn’t mean we shouldn’t demand better.
RichM Surely the obvious solution is to just fly and knock the trains on the head. Cheaper and quicker
And terrible for air and noise pollution. Italy did something about this a few years ago; no more internal flights, lots of great high speed rail. Hailed as a major success and now being replicated by other countries in Europe. Remember, all that lovely cheap flying is subsidized by our government, or at least the jet fuel is, so you’re paying for it through taxes if not at the point were you buy a ticket, and huffing in the fumes too. The cunts.
bosstrabs You don’t know what you’re talking about, Amps, quelle surprise because your last trip abroad was probably to Prague with ‘the lads’
You know I used to travel for my old job.
bosstrabs Also Amps, being a major thicket who never leaves Merseyside, doesn’t seem to realise there is a passport check (effectively a UK Border post) in St Pancras.
That would have to be installed and manned in Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, Edinburgh and Glasgow stations (and any other intermediate stations) for what you’re talking about to be possible.
How would we ever manage??? How would we cope? Won’t someone think of the children! If we can do it at St. Pancras, I’m almost certain we could do it at other train stations, a bit like the way we do at all our regional airports, wild I know. You’ll be telling me next it’s too hard to tax rich people.
