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Re:Freedom to Roam in Scotland: Everything You Need to Know by another2another on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @08:41AM (#34160844)
>... it can easily take 9 hours at freeway speed ...

I think most Europeans would have built high speed railways to get around in half the time to be honest.

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Re:Freedom to Roam in Scotland: Everything You Need to Know by concordDance on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @08:59AM (#34160984)
7.5 hours from Strasbourg to Perpignan via train. 9 hours via car at an average of 100kmh.

So the train is approximately freeway speed.

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Re:Freedom to Roam in Scotland: Everything You Need to Know by EmilyHATFIELD on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @10:08AM (#34161667)
Lille (Northern France) to Marseille (Southern France) - 1000Km

10 hours via car at highway speed - 5 hours with train

For long distances you'll be using the TGV (300km/h) if you need to go to smaller cities the trains will go roughly at highway speed

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Re:Freedom to Roam in Scotland: Everything You Need to Know by Mountain_Skies on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @01:33PM (#34164089)
What percentage of cities in Europe have TGV lines?
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Re:Freedom to Roam in Scotland: Everything You Need to Know by alistairSH on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @02:21PM (#34164721)
TGV is France’s intercity high-speed rail system, so not many.

But, just about every major and secondary city in the EU has high speed rail service. As you move into central and Eastern Europe, the speeds drop quite a bit, but are still faster than anything Amtrak offers (except the short section of Acela line that can actually go fast).

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Hi...

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