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Jon WorthPortugal loses HALF its international trains for a year
Well done everyone! 🎉
Buses from Valença to Vigo
Quixoticgeek@jon notice the buses can't take wheelchairs. How on earth is that legal in the EU in this day and age?
Portugal and Spain really need to get their shit together on this border.
@quixoticgeek The practical answer: these are coaches, not buses, and have no lifts. I had to take one during a previous engineering closure.
But politically of course it's *absurdly* bad, just like every other thing with that border. Diesel trains on an electrified line? Hello!
@jon you'd think they would do what a lot of other train companies do when a replacement bus is deployed "oh, a wheel chair, please wait a moment while we call you a taxi, don't worry, $trainCompany will pay for it"
Moof! 🔜 #JetLagTheGame NL@jon …I was planning on taking that train around the 20th April.
Now pondering if I want to bother going to Valença, or just take a bus direct to Porto.
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Lukas@jon Now I get why people are calling Portugal a Western Balkan country, with how hard it is to reach it by train.
@spaetzlesmasher Spain is more the issue here than Portugal actually.
Jonas Boström@jon When you thought it couldn't get worse…
But closed for engineering works might at least mean that it will get better.
Johnny Ryall's Stylist@jon I assume this is due to improvements, though? And not a lack of riders on the service? If the former, that's good news as long as it doesn't far exceed the proposed timeline (which I recognize it could).
Trainfo.eu@jon Do you know anything about the spanish line Salamanca - Vilar Formosa? Looks like it was recently finished on the portugese side
@interrailinfosvenska Still not electrified fully Spanish side. So no passenger trains. Maybe from December 2026, but not before.
Also the countryside between the border and Salamanca feels like the end of the world.