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>Europe has a lot of passenger rail, and as a result, shorter freight trains, and more use of trucks for transport. You can't generalise european train network
by Out_of_Characte 2y ago
>Europe has a lot of passenger rail, and as a result, shorter freight trains, and more use of trucks for transport.
You can't generalise european train networks because they are not monolithic at all. Netherlands, germany and france all have different networks that cannot interoperate. It's a mess for completely different reasons. Switzerland, for example, has one of the best passenger and train networks out there but you can't take a direct train from any european country to switzerland nevermind freight.
- flessner 2y agoThat's slowly being solved by ETCS to allow more interoperability, besides even within Germany there are drastic differences between city-wide, regional and long range services. There are also at least a couple connections from Germany to Basel, so I don't think the last point is entirely correct.
- koziserek 2y agoThat's strange, I often travel between Frankfurt and Basel..
- CaptainZapp 2y agoAnd Zurich to Paris or Milan or Vienna or ...