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Slow travel by train – its back.\u00a0 A number of years ago I when I was doing my doctorate I was allowed go one foreign conference.\u00a0 The one I wanted attend was in Barcelona and I decided to go by train, not wanting to fly.\u00a0 In those days the high speed line from Paris was under construction.\u00a0 In fact I was staying at a hotel above the station which was severely disrupted due to the work.\u00a0 So I decided to go by sleeper.\u00a0 (I had travelled a lot by sleeper in the past, both in the UK, trans-Siberian to China, in China and in Malaysia\/Thailand amongst other places.)<\/p>\n

In those days SNCF and Spanish Railways ran a joint sleeper service.\u00a0 The trip was not without its problems due to a problem with excessive heating on the trains – both ways (I was in exactly the same compartment physically).\u00a0 Nevertheless sleepers seemed to me to offer a good compromise method of long distance travel – after at night most people want to sleep most of the time –\u00a0 so its effectively dead time.<\/p>\n

However, even at the time it was clear that the European train companies were shutting down their sleeper services.\u00a0 There have been some exceptions since then.\u00a0 Honourable mention goes to Eurostar who do an overnight ski train to the French Alps.<\/p>\n

With the rise of XR and Greta Thunberg its clear that slow travel by train is back.\u00a0 Imagine my delight when I heard over the last few weeks that after DB closed their sleepers Austrian Railways have taken over some of their routes even buying some German stock and are starting to reopen a variety of routes around Europe.<\/p>\n

It looks like slow travel by train is back see seat61.com<\/a> for details.<\/p>\n

Neil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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