 Night Train Map in Europe (2024), https://back-on-track.eu/night-train-map/. This is an interactive map: each line is clickable and brings information about all the stops, schedules, frequency and the company operating this line. That’s pure beauty. Combined with InterRail, it’s so much travel freedom and opportunities in Europe!   33 comments
 I was gonna mention how odd it looks as if Paris had severed connections to the seemingly very well connected parts of Europe east of the Rhine. However, you can easily get from Düsseldorf to Paris. E.g. in under 4 hours by Eurostar. https://www.eurostar.com/search/de-de?adult=1&origin=8008094&destination=8727100&outbound=2024-10-20 And I remember there was a Thalys to Paris on the next track every Monday morning when I waited for my train from Essen to Cologne. @oliver_schafeld yes, but mostly very expensive and doesn't have the convenience of overnight. Some kind of proof that overnight trains are relevant are all the flixbuses travelling overnight to make for the missing trains. So many reasons why are not running... (lack of rolling stock, lack of stock that could also be used in the daytime, trackworks at night, high ticket price if not subsidized hence need to run between large European cities only,...) :(   @hywan @girlonthenet Very nice! And those are only the *night* trains. There are high speed trains too, and regular intercity trains, and local trains to nice towns and villages… #trains #train  @sargontrek I heard it’s being discussed since many years but I don’t know what’s the current status. @hywan last time i checked theres madrid-lisbon and madrid-galicia(not sure what cities) , there used to be a Madrid paris… @b0rn_dead It’s a disaster on mobile, agree. On a large screen, you also have to zoom the page, not the map, to get a better understanding. It’s a detail though, the database exists!    @hywan some interesting landmass rendering issues where it's hard to decide whether it's a bug or intended ;) (zooming in and out causes all sorts of similar issues - this is on macOS Chrome)  @floooh Climate change has provoked sea level increase, resulting in the disparition of some islands.    @hywan Thanks! Amazing to see that Ukraine has them in the thickest bunches. I guess our trains are so slow and distances so large that night trains are so much more attractive.  @hywan Wow, it's beautiful 😍 The map is interactive, but is it generated dynamically? I love railway-style , but I can't find a good tool to create them. In a project dedicated to mapping bike lanes, I wanted to simulate railway-style maps (which support zoom) using QGIS, but I couldn't manage to do it. https://github.com/badele/qgis-starter-kit/blob/master/styles/bike_path_metro/bike_path_metro.jpeg    @hywan I took some Interrail like two decades ago and the night trains were way more than today. @hywan https://tinyurl.com/4c7a9s5y Download Earnweb app and earn money anywhere, anytime. Exchange Coins for valuable rewards:  |
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@hywan Paris le centre de la France 😭