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This-and various other minor specific details were-of course!- extensively discussed when this system was introduced many years ago. It is what it is and it has no use to defend possible exclusions. As so often and so many have described: this is just a giant sized metro-with same rules. (Though...

3 minor quirks re national railways: 1.China: NO tickets, or at least for their ever growing network of HS-lines. Your ID or passport works to open the gates. This also means that for the first time getting booked on such a train as a ´bignose´ gwailo foreigner, this needs a lot of burocracy to...

Re S-bahn in Germany: Hamburg and Berlin were the first to get them-old style, 3d rail, so all separate. With Berlin also having the distinct feature of being separated into west and east for some 40+ years since end of WW2. Then came a crop of with a tunnel under the city centre-tipically along...

For some yes, for others not. You clearly have objections......... But this ´only for EU´ thing is pretty common, though in some cases (f.e. free senior citizen travel on DPP/Praha) it was abandoned only as it proved too difficult to check. Happy UK over there! Same-same for ditto all transit...

Since the last fare-hike of 1/2/26 the MIN price of 2,60 applies to each and everyone-whatever discount card they may hold. IF one did not break the journey in Arlon/Aarlen, then it is in fact an extra that would have been unnecessary. This makes such cards promise more as delivered for travels...

Hmm- on metro´s (subways for Norte-Americano´s)-several of which in the Rotterdam area are in fact rebuilt former railwaylines-the same may apply. Train length adapted to expected demand. Which effectively mans sets coupled/uncoupled at some points/times. A long time ago there were even...

A long, long time ago-think of perhaps even last century, pre 2000, there was considerable difference between INTERrail and EUrail-the latter for I think 98% aimed at Norte-Americano´s then-untill the Japanese also came in the game. THEN it was indeed the case that EUrail was undated...

Bangkok/THailand. The BMTA citybus system-owned by the state and not the BMA=Bangkok Administration- and every few years hovering from ´all by its own´ to ´private operators´. Fares are set by the AGE of the bus. Every few years a big batch of new buses come in and then higher fares are charged...

Was a bit unvoluntarily for one day in Shanghai/China (NO visum needed!- due to rerouting to get out of THailand back home) last week and about any riding bus there is already electric or seems to be so. Also managed to visit one kind of coach/longer distance bus station (no idea how far out...

Most often urbanrail.net has best/accurate info on these things-news-recent/upcoming openings. The editor also produces small books/atlases about urban rail systems. But especially for ITaly these seem to remain a kind of gamble and ever uncertain. Myself have visited as prime interest all tram...

Does this also fit? FLIXbus-the all over EURope green long distance bus (coach for old-style Brits) only has (to the best of my current knowledge) ticketing on your fone (if that is an app or not I leave to the discussion) and that is checked by the drivers before entry. It will also show the...

Also consider: 1. INterrail 1 country. No restrictions on times or days when to use. If at least 3 longer return trips in that period are planned 2.NS group ticket, cost is 38,50€ for 2 or 3 persons or 43 for 4. No need for that extra card to arrange. It all boils down to how many people, their...

Tirana, capital of Albania-right beside and having much more people, is similar. Phnom Penh, capital of Cambodia, with over 17 mln people, got a brand new and for now rather oversized airport-some 40 KMs away from town, has a station that on lucky days sees 2 trains departing-on less lucky days...

To this latter: maybe surprises you, but-as this is clearly a thing beyond control of any railway running trains on it, the general EURopean rules also state that its either money back-and no more, or rebook, if possible on a later date without surcharge. In english (sounds very, very funny in...

You cannot have everything ever wished for in life. Du kannst ja nicht alles wunschenswertes im Leben haben, oder? From that BVG=Berlin ´LT´: ONLY FRidays, with 2 tours, duration around 2 hrs.- at 19.00 and 21.30, IF there are no restrictions due to works or whatever, a list will be put online...