Many issues are inherent of trains. It’s easier to move people to another bus or tow a car. When trains failed in Spain last year on some occasions people got stack in totally inaccessible places and had to wait all night sitting next to the tracks (it was to hot to stay inside the trains without AC). You can’t pull up another train easily or walk people to a bus. Towing the trains was complicated for some reasons. And that were brand new trains failing because of some manufacturing issues.
International trains from Poland have issues with AC because when they are in Germany, German technicians can’t/don’t want to fix them. Mixing operators like that is also an issue inherent to trains. You have different companies responsible for operating the train, the tracks and providing services inside the train. Planes are similar but international services are common and better organized.
Many recent issues in Spain were due to people stealing electric cables. Another problem inherent of trains. You have thousands of kilometers of infrastructure that is difficult to secure but an issue in single place quickly spreads throughout the network.
You have different companies responsible for operating the train, the tracks and providing services inside the train. Planes are similar but international services are common and better organized.
I’m not sure what you are trying to say here, because you imply that this isn’t an issue inherent to trains since the solution in the aviation world is to contract ground crew where airlines have none of their own, which could very well be done by train operators as well.
Also, being stuck inside an airliner while taxiing, with no A/C, just because the systems malfunction slightly and tower don’t agree on which gate they could assign to the flight since it is very early, is a thing I’ve gone through a few times. So, again, not exclusive to trains.
Ok, so it’s not exclusive. Does it make the problem any less real? EU did a study on it recently and it’s way more difficult to travel internationally by train than by plane. It’s just a fact.
There aren’t many transnational train routes, even in Europe, compared to transnational flights. But that’s not inherent to trains as a means of transportation, but a bureaucracy issue.
That’s… exactly what I said: this is not an issue inherent to trains, it’s just bureaucracy. In other words, there is nothing preventing these operators from collaborating and setting up these routes, they just refuse to agree on them.
Great, so the bureaucracy is worse for trains and is creating some issues that other modes of transpiration don’t have. What’s your point exactly? Next time I will not be able to buy a ticker for a train in different country I will just say “it’s bureaucracy” and it will be magically solved?
My point is that this is not an issue inherent to trains as means of transportation. Third time I write the same sentence. I don’t think it’s that hard to understand.
Because you’re conflating issues like company policies with stuff that’s supposedly inherent to trains, like “they don’t have windows” (although they do), or that “you could end up stranded for a long time in the middle of nowhere” (which routinely happens with cars).
I mean, would you blame Airbus if there’s overbooking in your flight? Probably not.
Many issues are inherent of trains. It’s easier to move people to another bus or tow a car. When trains failed in Spain last year on some occasions people got stack in totally inaccessible places and had to wait all night sitting next to the tracks (it was to hot to stay inside the trains without AC). You can’t pull up another train easily or walk people to a bus. Towing the trains was complicated for some reasons. And that were brand new trains failing because of some manufacturing issues.
International trains from Poland have issues with AC because when they are in Germany, German technicians can’t/don’t want to fix them. Mixing operators like that is also an issue inherent to trains. You have different companies responsible for operating the train, the tracks and providing services inside the train. Planes are similar but international services are common and better organized.
Many recent issues in Spain were due to people stealing electric cables. Another problem inherent of trains. You have thousands of kilometers of infrastructure that is difficult to secure but an issue in single place quickly spreads throughout the network.
I’m not sure what you are trying to say here, because you imply that this isn’t an issue inherent to trains since the solution in the aviation world is to contract ground crew where airlines have none of their own, which could very well be done by train operators as well.
Also, being stuck inside an airliner while taxiing, with no A/C, just because the systems malfunction slightly and tower don’t agree on which gate they could assign to the flight since it is very early, is a thing I’ve gone through a few times. So, again, not exclusive to trains.
Ok, so it’s not exclusive. Does it make the problem any less real? EU did a study on it recently and it’s way more difficult to travel internationally by train than by plane. It’s just a fact.
Difficult, how? Be specific.
There aren’t many transnational train routes, even in Europe, compared to transnational flights. But that’s not inherent to trains as a means of transportation, but a bureaucracy issue.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/21/almost-half-of-eus-busiest-flight-routes-are-hard-or-impossible-to-book-on-trains-report
That’s… exactly what I said: this is not an issue inherent to trains, it’s just bureaucracy. In other words, there is nothing preventing these operators from collaborating and setting up these routes, they just refuse to agree on them.
Great, so the bureaucracy is worse for trains and is creating some issues that other modes of transpiration don’t have. What’s your point exactly? Next time I will not be able to buy a ticker for a train in different country I will just say “it’s bureaucracy” and it will be magically solved?
My point is that this is not an issue inherent to trains as means of transportation. Third time I write the same sentence. I don’t think it’s that hard to understand.
Because you’re conflating issues like company policies with stuff that’s supposedly inherent to trains, like “they don’t have windows” (although they do), or that “you could end up stranded for a long time in the middle of nowhere” (which routinely happens with cars).
I mean, would you blame Airbus if there’s overbooking in your flight? Probably not.