▲ | bluGill 7 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||
You missed a couple other points against night trains. first trains work best if they stop many times - how will you wake people up at 3am for their stop? For that matter who would agree to that? Without that churn many destinations are not in range. second, track needs maintenance. If the track is running at night as well when will you repair it? I makes sense to just close nost track every night for repairs. For busy two rail sections you can close on track and run very reduced service on the other - but this reduction means you don't want people sleeping as you can fill your trains just on people working night shifts. all of the above are challenges. They can be worked around in various ways however they to be considered to see if it is worth it- | |||||||||||||||||||||||
▲ | matt-p 7 hours ago | parent [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
No they don't. You use the same hub to hub model as airlines. E.g London to Edinburgh, not London to Edinburgh stopping in 4 places. One of the nice things about traveling at night is you have less time pressure and congestion so when doing track repairs it's usually fine to divert the train. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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