Interactive version: https://back-on-track.eu/night-train-map/
I don’t know, but that’d be the point, right? If it framed Western Europe we’d know that those countries don’t have any, but cutting them off just makes it ambiguous.
night trains are for long distances. Can’t really do that on an island. Night trains are basically just sleeper trains, but those connections need more than 3-4 hours of distance to make sense
… yes, I know what a night train is. Your point?
For the record, there are far longer routes in Ireland, Spain and Portugal and far shorter routes captured in the map (in distance, we could have a long talk about the pros and cons of promoting overnight train over high speed rail for the same trip).
I see it more like “Ireland doesn’t have night trains, so let’s focus the map on the part of Europe where they have most of them”
Edit: the interactive version can be found here: https://back-on-track.eu/night-train-map/
And I don’t read it that way. That’s why it’s ambiguous.
I am even more confused with that link, though, because they do seem to have listed lines in Spain flagged as “important seat-only connections”. So… connections to where? Why are they cut off? Do those extend into Portugal or terminate in Spain?
