I used to like #Trainline, but it seems they have become enshittified:

• you can't book a full journey in one go if it includes Eurostar - have to book the parts separately, so what's the point?
• they add a booking fee to each booking (so, booking several parts, see above, comes with a fee each time)
• no useful way to contact them: it's either whatsapp, "X" or a paid phone number
• they add a huge fee if you exchange a ticket: £20 per trip, even if the new ticket is cheaper than the old one! Edit: if it's a return trip that goes up to £40!
• website is overly complicated.

So, I will stop using them and will go back to using local train operators. 🤷
#Train #Travel

Renfe considers the latest #crisis of the Talgo Avril #trains to be solved and estimates the cost of the #NewYear's incident at 1 million

This has been confirmed to EFE by Renfe sources, who have detailed that since 07:00 hours on January 1st, all the self-propelled trains of the 106 series (Standard and Conventional gauge) were inoperative due to #software loading problems. The company informed in a message on the social network X that “once the computer failure of the Talgo Avril trains has been corrected, the usual schedule has been restored normally since the beginning of the service on the three corridors linking #Madrid with #Galicia / #Asturias, Madrid-Zaragoza / #Barcelona and Madrid-Levante”.

source: elpais.com/economia/2025-01-02…

#bug #faile #date #problem #transport #travel #spain #news #train

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Renfe da por solventada la última crisis de los trenes Talgo Avril y cifra en 1 millón el coste de la incidencia de año nuevo

El servicio funciona con normalidad en los tres corredores que unen Madrid con Galicia, Asturias, Barcelona, Valencia y Murcia. Blanco calcula el coste para la compañia en un millón de euros

^{El País (Ediciones EL PAÍS S.L.)}

There's no agenda in posting this video

Just a capture of a moment of simple human joy in efficient #publictransportation

Ok, ok... just a small agenda

Year: unknown, location: #Japan

Possibly related to this:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C5%AB…

#trains #shinkansen #bullettrain #maglev #train

Gotta get that perfect selfie angle -- safety be damned!

petapixel.com/2024/12/16/touri…

#train #selfie #stupid

Tourist Hit by Oncoming Train While Taking Selfie on Tracks

A tourist, who attempted to take a selfie in front of a moving train, was brutally hit and knocking to the ground by the oncoming locomotive.

^{Pesala Bandara (PetaPixel)}