But France is on the "continent" so has to manage transcontinental traffic, especially freight trains - which are very long, very heavy and very slow. But no,

But France is on the "continent" so has to manage transcontinental traffic, especially freight trains - which are very long, very heavy and very slow. But no, it's so easy for you to just shout "it doesn't make any sense" without first wondering if you had the complete picture. The French are incompetent and wasteful, that's obvious isn't it?