Europe is investing heavily in trains

Re:Europe is investing heavily in trains by mszcz on Monday April 11, 2022 @05:23PM (#30995273)

Yeah, around that time I was still in college and used trains a lot. I remember we had a running joke about everything inside the trains we traveled in had some sort of sticky, yucky film. When you grabbed something and then let go you could kind of feel the train clinging to you. The heating in the winter was always either broken or turned to 11. My friend once, by accident, melted a big chunk of his shoe on the radiator under his seat.

I've recently traveled by that same line. The train has changed a bit, the film seems to be gone but the ~100km trip takes 5 minutes longer than it used to, averaging <50km/h... So still ways to go.

edit: spelling

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Re:Europe is investing heavily in trains by cromka on Monday April 11, 2022 @05:47PM (#30995539)

> My friend once, by accident, melted a big chunk of his shoe on the radiator under his seat.

This happened to me while on a train to Warsaw 20 years ago, as a high-school student. Ironically I travelled to the Parliament where Buzek, the at-the-time PM, came back from Athens having signed the EU Treaty of Accession to give an impromptu press release. Crazy how much progres we had seen since, and how many set backs.

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Re:Europe is investing heavily in trains by mszcz on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @05:50AM (#31000538)

Yeah. On the flip side I've traveled to Warsaw some time ago on the Pendolino (?) train. I splurged on a first class ticket (~$35) and it was real nice. No "film", separate seats, great service, clean, real fast. Of course, the bubble burst when we approached Warsaw - the train slowed to a crawl just as we were entering the city and I was late like an hour :P Baby steps I guess ;)

edit: Damn spelling again

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