Innsbruck/Salzburg with Klagenfurt

Ohne Reservierungspflicht 🥳🥳🥳

It will be interesting to see which impact it may also have on 🇮🇹-🇭🇺 traffic...

Very true. However, any prospects that freight traffic may pick up at a later stage?

From a purely 🇦🇹 perspective, it connects Innsbruck/Salzburg, doesn't it? 🤔

A crazy pot pourri Indeed :

M6+M4+I6+I10+I11

40 years ago, the plans targeted the mid-90s for full completion.

May I suggest a genuine HSL Rome - Viterbo - Sienna - Florence/Pisa, with a later extension to La Spezia and Genoa.

Further West, there might be a case for one last extension to Savona, but not really beyond.

I shall once take you to Wiltz 🇱🇺 - Bastogne 🇧🇪

The original LGV PACA included an extension to Menton and Ventimiglia, wholly underground, no faster than 200 km/h

But what is really missing between Nice and 🇮🇹 is LGV Mercantour : Nice - Turin via St-Martin de la Vésubie, Cuneo and Fossano.

Goodness...

And further North, the Tauern line still has quite a lot of single-track.

Any idea when dual-tracking might be complete @vorortanleiter.bsky.social ?

BTW where were 🛃 checks made? Kapıkule and Tovarnik?

Even once doubled with HSLs, conventional routes may sensibly retain intercity services.

But it will also increase rolling-stock fatigue...
25%o is the best compromise AFAIK.

Also on short Talgo-style cars?

You mean something like IC3 of DSB or AM96 of SNCB?

Or go Talgo or steering-wheels bogies

An arrangement should be made with 🇧🇾(🇷🇺) so as to upgrade (230km/h + 25kV + 1435mm + 2 tracks) the whole route Białystok - Kuźnica Białostocka - Hrodna - Vilnius.

In Hrodna, build a Chunnel-style terminal allowing such corridor-trains to call there.

Optima express, in many respects, has something of a freight train...

Any announcements made on board throughout this long journey?

Ⓜ️6️⃣ has loads of stations overground and is not really substitutable with street-level 🚈, so it makes sense there.

Did you manage to sleep well for those 2 subsequent nights on board?

Again and again 😬😤🥱
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@jonworth.eu

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And such delayed trains would give quite some headaches to people like @ummels.de 🙃🤭🆘

BTW, as Yugoslavia was devastated by war, Optima express operated on Sopron - Edirne.

Unfortunately, the electrification of Çerkezköy - Kapıkule (1990-91) was made on the cheap, with little infra improvement.

Would it make sense to extend this train until München Ost or Kornwestheim?

Unsurprisingly 🙃🤭😊

But where exactly in Germany? 🤔

BTW, have you more information about the place of residence of those travelling on the same Optima service as you?

With 6 Bn € , you can build a HUGE tram network in inner Paris, featuring some goodies such as 2.60m in width and Bordeaux-style ground electric supply.

It's just physically impossible in quite a few stations.