• CanadianCorhen
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      9 months ago

      when i was in the UK, i took a train from london to Glasgow. train was >200kph, and, without exaggeration, as quiet as a library.

      Arrived 15 minutes before it left, had a beer on it, was in glasgow in no time. Highly recommended.

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        9 months ago

        as an expat, it can be mixed though. If you rely on it for commuting and travel at rush hour, it’s just a different kind of hell.

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      9 months ago

      I rode from Stockholm to Copenhagen and back. There were 2 issues with delayed or canceled trains, leading to potential missed connections and some pragmatic opportunism.

      Still. It was awesome. It was fast, effective, safe and comfortable.

      I worry that our own rail system has never been all those things, and will never be all those things, and I dearly hope to be proved wonderfully wrong.