THEY'RE FINALLY HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Where to get the poster: https://back-on-track.eu/night-train-map/

They're really cheap and you can donate to people making them!

@rail_ Meanwhile, in Spain... ​​

We used to have a night train from Galicia (NW region) to Barcelona (NE) in the 2000s, but it got canceled. Now you have to lose day hours if you want to travel by train between those regions.
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@cinnamon iirc @haobo_12 told me that RENFE is vocal about loosing govt subsidiaries to operate night service and claims "nobody used them"
@rail_ @haobo_12 An alternate version of that is "RENFE took advantage of the pandemy to remove all the night services".

They weren't the only ones who took advantage of the pandemy to enshittify the service, tho:
https://civio.es/2023/03/31/cita-previa/ (original in Spanish, Google translate into English)
Las colas invisibles de la Seguridad Social: ni un robot consigue encontrar cita previa

Mapeamos con un robot el acceso a la Seguridad Social buscando cita tres veces al día durante dos semanas: en 43 de las 414 oficinas abiertas no había ninguna para gestionar pensiones, la cifra sube a 63 de 394 para IMV. Y, cuando sí la hay, la mitad de veces es para, como mínimo, dos semanas más tarde.

Civio