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Spain bans short-haul flights where you can take a train
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this post was submitted on 24 Feb 2024
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One tragic fact of life is that it doesn't really take that much to become world-class as far as trains go. The HSR network alone basically places you on the podium.
To be fair (and Im from a family of train workers, did my master thesis there), there is a lot of mismanagement and politics, lack of investment and stuff, which decrease the quality of train services. But there's also part of the problems who are inherent to the fact of moving steel boxes safely on thousands of km, without endangering the workers either.
Depends on the age of your tracks, if you have old Victorian bridges etc or aging signal systems it can be very hard indeed.
(London btw)