🇪🇺 Direct train connections
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direkt.bahn.guru - Find all direct train connections from your city 🚅

crosspost from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/3477888

I just came across this tool, which - after entering a city - shows all other cities to which there is a direct train connection. A color code depicts the travel hours.

Examples:

Although I’m not quite sure yet on what occasion I can use the tool. But someday the moment will come :D

Btw. there is a Sparpreis search on https://bahn.guru/ with a monthly view (“On which day do I travel cheapest from A to B?”). Unfortunately the links to the store don’t work yet.

  • plactagonic@sopuli.xyz
    1·
    1 year ago

    There is simple answer: there is too much to maintain.

    As a Czech I can tell that we have the denses rail network in Europe because we were in centre of Austria-Hungary. Communists didn’t want to tear it down and expanded public transport…

    Now even with heavy subsidies it is just too much.

    • VanillaGorilla@kbin.social
      6·
      1 year ago

      At least in Germany it’s due to partial privatization. To a degree. We still think it should be profitable and don’t treat it as the critical infrastructure it is.

      • plactagonic@sopuli.xyz
        2·
        1 year ago

        Here it is also partially privatised, but only train providers. National rail maintainer is SŽDC. I think that it is similar in Germany.