Recent content by endecotp

Cairns, Australia: my recollection from 20 years ago was that it was accessed through a huge (and freezing-cold, air-conditioned) shopping centre. A look on Google Earth now mostly confirms that, though there might be a back entrance of some sort.

Yes, sorry, they are g/km, just a factor of 1000 out! 1784201486 I'd love to see that quantified. (Do electric TERs have regenerative breaking?) I used the example of Marseille-Nice because the TGV and the TER go at about the same speed and have fairly similar stopping patterns. Yet looking...

Thanks, that's very useful. Edited to add: Two key numbers from that document: Emissions (kg CO2 equiv.) per passenger-kilometer: TGV 2.0, TER 19.4. That's clearly wrong if the TER were electric and running on the same track with the same stopping pattern as the TGV but at lower speed...

sncf-connect.com shows "CO2 émis pour cet itinéraire" on its "Détail de l'itinéraire" pages. Looking at, for example, Barcelona to Lyon on some random date, I see: (1) a 5h31 TGV journey (with a change at Montpellier): 1.8 kg. (2) an 8h48 journey using Spanish trains to Girona then Port Bou...

Thanks for the ideas everyone. I'll let you know what I eventually do.

I guess a few people here have done this journey at some point. I'm considering doing it over a few days. Any suggestions for especially picturesque towns, etc., suitable for an overnight stop? Thanks.

Let's just sanity-check that.... If you buy standard-class advances a couple of days ahead, you can probably make the return journey for about £40. That's about £4k per year. If you earn £100k, in Scotland you'll pay £30,731 income tax. In England, you'll pay £27,341. (Please feel free to...

Do Viking Boats count?

Why not? It should take less than an hour to understand it the first time, then just look at it again every day at breakfast or something so it sinks in. When I did this back in the 90s, just "телефон", "Аэрофло́т" and "паспорт" got me most of the way.

Learn to read the Cyrilic alphabet.

Why would passengers prefer to be dumped in Edinburgh, rather than travel via Motherwell with its 3tph to Glasgow?

Thanks, that could plausibly be related. It is an interesting story but not one I can post publicly, sadly.

See post #260 onwards for some informed info about this.

Has anyone heard of scams where the scammer seems to know about your rail travel history, as if perhaps they have obtained data from a rail ticket retailer? Or has anyone heard of a data leak from a ticket retailer that could have been used in this way?

That's better than hoping they'll just raid it at random.