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[-] MudMan@fedia.io 14 points 1 day ago

And Ireland? Or is the map just having a very specific interpretation of "Europe"?

[-] Servais@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 day ago

Are there night trains in Ireland?

[-] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

There are no trains in Ireland T_T

Even the fucking Bus Eireann wouldn't go all the way to Donegal back in the naughts because fuck driving all the way up there, right? Capitalism at its finest.

[-] Nightweb@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago

a night bus use to be seasonal till few years ago XD

[-] MudMan@fedia.io -1 points 1 day ago

I don't know, but that'd be the point, right? If it framed Western Europe we'd know that those countries don't have any, but cutting them off just makes it ambiguous.

[-] deedan06_@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 hours ago

night trains are for long distances. Can't really do that on an island. Night trains are basically just sleeper trains, but those connections need more than 3-4 hours of distance to make sense

[-] MudMan@fedia.io 1 points 11 hours ago

... yes, I know what a night train is. Your point?

For the record, there are far longer routes in Ireland, Spain and Portugal and far shorter routes captured in the map (in distance, we could have a long talk about the pros and cons of promoting overnight train over high speed rail for the same trip).

[-] Servais@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I see it more like "Ireland doesn't have night trains, so let's focus the map on the part of Europe where they have most of them"

Edit: the interactive version can be found here: https://back-on-track.eu/night-train-map/

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