• @XTornado@lemmy.ml
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    151 year ago

    It helps that Spain has world-class trains

    As Spaniard I wouldn’t go that far… but yeah they are good. But not all of them 😅 specially the shorter routes. Apart from some maintenance issues, It doesn’t help that from time to time a line is down because they have stolen copper wires…

    • @GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml
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      101 year ago

      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.

      • @wildcherry@slrpnk.net
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        31 year ago

        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.

      • darreninthenet
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        31 year ago

        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)

    • @wildcherry@slrpnk.net
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      51 year ago

      I was once running to the station in sevilla to get my train. I arrived 40 minutes late. The train departed right after I boarded.

      Much love to the renfe, they waited for me :3