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The Man in Seat Sixty-One

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Re: The Man in Seat Sixty-One

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Post by ajmurmann »

red_admiral wrote: post #9

Can we please have more sites like this on the internet.

I kinda want one of these directory websites you could find in the early 2000s that were just collections of websites the author liked. I want a page like that just filled with links to pushed like this. projectrho.com comes to mind as another page I would want to see liked there.

Re: The Man in Seat Sixty-One

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Post by Freak_NL »

Angostura wrote: post #40

Used this several years ago to take the family to Italy via sleeper service from the UK. Perfect. Sad that many of these international sleepers have recently shut down.

Doubly painful, now that people are once again more open to the use of a sleeper train to avoid flying (for environmental reasons, or just not having to deal with airports).

ÖBB took over Deutsche Bahn's sleepers, which coincided with the retiring of the last sleeper train from/to the Netherlands (bugger me). But their service does seem to be working pretty well.

I missed an opportunity to travel from Milan to Paris by Thello's sleeper train due to the railway strikes in France this year, unfortunately.

I really wish the EU or collaborating national governments would invest more in sleeper train services by taxing flights. It's much more sustainable, and the real kicker is this: yes, a train takes longer, but in a sleeper train you just wake up with a complimentary breakfast early in the morning in the middle of a city hundreds of kilometres from where you started.

Re: The Man in Seat Sixty-One

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Post by ludooo »

As others have already said seat61.com is a rare gem on the internet. It’s an invaluable resource when traveling by train in any country. The site has helped me prepare for countless trips. Once I traveled more than 10,000 miles through 8 countries from Saigon to Amsterdam and it would have been much more difficult if it weren’t for the man in seat 61.

Re: The Man in Seat Sixty-One

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Post by dageshi »

fit2rule wrote: post #26
posnet wrote: post #5

I travel from Portugal to Singapore via trains and I wouldn't have survived without this site.

Whoa, how do you get from Europe to Singapore by train?

Russia -> Mongolia -> China -> Vietnam -> Cambodia (he might have cheated here and gone by bus, Cambodia does have trains but they're not really available for passengers anymore I don't think) -> Thailand -> Malaysia -> Singapore

Re: The Man in Seat Sixty-One

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Post by briandear »

Freak_NL wrote: post #43
Angostura wrote: post #40

Used this several years ago to take the family to Italy via sleeper service from the UK. Perfect. Sad that many of these international sleepers have recently shut down.

Doubly painful, now that people are once again more open to the use of a sleeper train to avoid flying (for environmental reasons, or just not having to deal with airports). ÖBB took over Deutsche Bahn's sleepers, which coincided with the retiring of the last sleeper train from/to the Netherlands (bugger me). But their service does seem to be working pretty well. I missed an opportunity to travel from Milan to Paris…

> I really wish the EU or collaborating national governments would invest more in sleeper train services by taxing flights.

Why? If sleepers are so desirable, then the market should support them.

Re: The Man in Seat Sixty-One

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Post by creichenbach »

I wonder how/where the author gets connection time information. Each country, and sometimes each public transport company, seems to have their own system, sometimes hard to access digitally.

I've been building a mobile app for quick and convenient public transport departure lookup in Switzerland[0], which is doable because there's a free, well-documented public API[1]. Since it's fairly popular, I thought about extending it to other countries, but as mentioned above, the API landscape looks super heterogenous and spotty.

[0]: http://billhillapps.com/billhill/quickov.html [1]: http://transport.opendata.ch/

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