@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange
Post #4417767
2026-08-05 09:46 UTC
@cstross@wandering.shop
I wish they'd do something like ThamesLink in Paris, or add some lines that bypass Paris. If you want to go to the south of France, you need to get the EuroStar to Paris, but then you've got a ten to fifteen minute walk to another station if you want to go to the South of France. That, plus the time you need to allow as slack means that flying (even with getting to an airport and allowing two hours there) is about twice the speed of a train to somewhere like Bordeaux. If I could get a sleeper that would take me from London to Bordeaux overnight, I'd probably prefer that to flying. The trains on the other side go across to Lille, I'm not sure if there's a path to connect them up to places in the South East.
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@simon@tutut.delire.party 2026-08-05 10:38
@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange @cstross@wandering.shop i took a eurostar direct from london to lyon a few times years ago. unfortunately i think it was an experiment they didn’t continue
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@skington@glasgow.social 2026-08-05 16:38
@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange @cstross@wandering.shop Jon Worth @jon@gruene.social did a whole bunch of research on this last year https://jonworth.eu/crosschannelrail-final-report-released-and-the-next-steps/ . The tl;dr is that, yes, you could get a Eurostar down to Bordeaux, but there are issues with a number of other stations along the way, because of having to physically segregate international non-Schengen customers.