Sebastian Geukes
Peluche CeroI FEEL SO CHEATED
Matty J@peluchecero @lukito I’ve said this for years! It should start in Edinburgh!
Charlie Stross@m4tty_j @peluchecero @lukito No—it should have started in Inverness and Dublin (via Belfast and a slightly saner version of the Boris Bridge: it'd have been a good excuse to clean up Beafort's Dyke)!
In Search of a Better World@cstross @m4tty_j @peluchecero @lukito Can we not start it at Thurso and have done? Or run a spur up to Scrabster where the Ferries land.
Martin Hamilton@cstross @m4tty_j @peluchecero @lukito Perhaps this actually exists in another timeline... <holds up card with intricate Celtic knot style design>
Officially Tara 🕷️ 
🌹@peluchecero but... according to that map you'd need to change at Marseilles, not Paris (to get from Newcastle to Nice)
@tarajdactyl That is correct (although not the point)
Evannakita@tarajdactyl @peluchecero I was thinking that same thing! And also there’s no direct Birmingham-Brussels train on there. It’s odd that neither of the itineraries they mentioned actually matches the map.
The Doctor Is In@peluchecero
We were all cheated.
We were all cheated.
Curtis "Ovid" Poe (he/him)Not quite the same thing, but when I lived in London and worked for the BBC, my wife and I thought about moving to Calais and taking the Eurostar to work. Traffic in London is so bad that it would only have added about 15 minutes to my commute.
Sadly, they didn't offer discounts for monthly passes, so the money we would have saved on rent would be lost in the commute.
James Kemp@ovid @peluchecero I worked with a chap on loan from London Fire Brigade that lived in Calais. He used to sleep in the fire station between shifts, and then go home at the end of the four day/night rotation.
VaneshiSame and now a bunch of nutters want to fill it full of concrete.
Jarjan (He/Him)@peluchecero
The train from Amsterdam to Berlin still takes 6,5 to 7 hours, high time those lines get a speed upgrade!
It's about 660km or 7 hours by car, surely a train should be able to beat that!
The train from Amsterdam to Berlin still takes 6,5 to 7 hours, high time those lines get a speed upgrade!
It's about 660km or 7 hours by car, surely a train should be able to beat that!
Robert Atkins@jarjan @peluchecero It was four and a half for a bit, but back up to seven-ish right now because of track work.
Dan Stowell@ratkins ah, do you have a link for that info, please? we've been trying to work out why it takes longer than when we first rode it
@danstowell No, I don’t I’m afraid. It’s long term though, six or nine months or something.
@jarjan I can take a train ride that is as long as a car ride, especially if it's temporary, provided that trains are comfortable reasonably direct (having to cover a route by taking 27 short train rides kills me). Trains are so much more relaxed than driving, there is a bar car, you can read or work...
@peluchecero Never forget that both the Tories and Labour demanded that the Eurotunnel trains would have to run from London because they feared people becoming too European if we could get on them anywhere in the UK. Fuck them all. All of them.
JobdenHeeten@peluchecero On the positive side, you can take the Eurostar from London to Amsterdam without having to change trains in Calais (took a little longer than 1993, I give you that).
xyxy@peluchecero why do you feel cheated? I don't understand
@xyxy Because a well-planned full European-wide railway network was planned as early as the early 1990s, and it does not exist yet.