Information Is BeautifulDaily train service in Canada. For clarity, the operative word here is DAILY. The lines exist but there is no longer a daily service.
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Yncke@infobeautiful Um. Just to be sure: you really mean daily? Not hourly?
Deus Figendi.jwd@yncke
I was confused too but Canada is huge I gues.
Coast to coast by train is like a week or something.
Compared to Europe you have to call the orient express I think.
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canleaf08✅ 加拿大葉子 🏳️🌈⚧️🇪🇺🍁@deusfigendi @yncke @infobeautiful Canada has something people love to talk about. austria would like to have something like this. australia pays even more to journey beyond... the Canadian feels like an orient express... 71 year old cars, queenslanders, Germans, Canadians and entire Altersheims....
Chris Corrigan@infobeautiful @deusfigendi @yncke yes. And population density. There some regional rail in Ontario and one line in BC that runs commuter trains but it would add much to the map. We are extremely poor key services by rail.
Nevertheless there should be lots of regional rail in the Lower Mainland of BC and Vancouver Island. In the entire southern Ontario and Quebec corridor, and even the Halifax/Moncton/Saint John region and between Calgary and Edmonton.
Joe W@deusfigendi @yncke @infobeautiful I just looked up the connection Lisbon to Tallinn. That's a solid 60-80 hours, 6-10 changes. So around three to four days.
Lisbon to Kiruna is in the same order of magnitude.
So... Much quicker, not that much shorter.
One problem is that I cannot book the whole trip on a single ticket. Crossing ten or so countries 😁
Edit: As @deusfigendi replied, it's a similar duration in Canada (four days or so) 🙃
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Sorry. I wrote "a week or something". According to Rupert it's also four days.
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OK, fair enough. Let's call it a draw.
Too bad we don't (yet!) have a system to book such a trip in one go and too few trains that cross borders.
The first few hours from Lisbon are really stupidly slow as well. Lots of regional trains, not too many fast trains. Plus three days on different trains? I think I'm good.
And yes, I take the train to go on holidays more often than driving. But that's only a few hours (like... eight or so).