Sweden Wants to Revive Europe’s Overnight Trains

Re:Sweden Wants to Revive Europe’s Overnight Trains by readhn on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @11:45PM (#19560557)

it would be fun to take a trans-siberian rail ... except it takes like what ...7 days? eats up vacation time pretty quickly.

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Re:Sweden Wants to Revive Europe’s Overnight Trains by fritkot on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @04:51AM (#19561832)

In this case, the trainride IS the vacation. You don't take the Trans-Siberian primarily to get from Moscow to Vladivostok / Beijing, but to check out everything else along the way.

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Re:Sweden Wants to Revive Europe’s Overnight Trains by FabHK on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @08:45AM (#19562836)

I've taken the TransSib (or TransMongolian, in this case) from Ulaanbaatar to Moscow. It's pretty much 4 days, just short of 100 hours. No showers, and the restaurant car was so-so; I mostly ate nuts and snacks: the train would stop some 10 minutes or so at stations, and there were kiosks on the platform to stock up. You really need to take some good books or good friends.

BTW, "The Man in Seat 61" has lots of info on it:

https://www.seat61.com/Trans-Siberian.htm

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Re:Sweden Wants to Revive Europe’s Overnight Trains by Aeolun on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @01:57AM (#19561106)

Isn’t that the charm?

My issue was more with recent tickets I’ve seen being pretty expensive.

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