Wow, that's impressing. But still, it's a little over 29 hours straight, with 7 transfers; one of them including different train stations, and some transfer windows less than half an hour. With due respect for German punctuality, the probability of missing a departure is pretty high.
Flight time between Oslo and London is 1 hour 50 minutes. Add another hour on each side for checkins, luggage and security, and another hour on each side for getting from airport to town, and you still have nearly 24 hours more at your disposal. It's entirely beyond me how people actually enjoy train rides, but that's down to preference. If one has the time, one can choose how to spend it. As to slow modes of travel, what would have been totally cool (for me, anyway) was to have a dirigible service with regular departures like trains or planes. :-) Jostein 2010/5/5 Bob W <[email protected]>: >> >> Let's see... Oslo -> London by train... >> >> Route will go through: >> Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, >> France, and UK. >> >> No central itinerary planner, will have to do it by studying >> the national railways of at least 5 countries/languages. >> > > Deutsche Bahn did it in one: > > Station/Stop Date Time Platform Products > London St. Pancras International Mo, 10.05.10 dep 11:04 > EST 9126 EUROSTAR > Bruxelles-Midi Eurostar Mo, 10.05.10 arr 14:05 > Bruxelles-Midi Eurostar Mo, 10.05.10 dep 14:05 transfer > 18 min. > Bruxelles-Midi Mo, 10.05.10 arr 14:23 > Bruxelles-Midi Mo, 10.05.10 dep 14:28 THA 9433 > Thalys > Köln Hbf Mo, 10.05.10 arr 16:18 > Köln Hbf Mo, 10.05.10 dep 17:48 2 ICE 955 > Intercity-Express > Berlin Hbf Mo, 10.05.10 arr 22:21 11 D - G > Berlin Hbf Mo, 10.05.10 walk 8 min. > Berlin Hbf (tief) Mo, 10.05.10 > Berlin Hbf (tief) Mo, 10.05.10 dep 23:01 4 EN 210 > EuroNight > Lund Central Tu, 11.05.10 arr 08:11 > Lund Central Tu, 11.05.10 dep 09:22 R 1026 Oeresundzug > Göteborg Central Tu, 11.05.10 arr 12:17 > Göteborg Central Tu, 11.05.10 dep 12:45 R 394 > Regionalzug > Oslo S Tu, 11.05.10 arr 16:45 > > > >> Longest stretch I can book from Oslo is to Gothenburg, >> Sweden. It costs about as much as a low-fare airline ticket >> to London, takes 3 hours 50 minutes, and I haven't even >> traveled _one quarter_ of the way yet. >> >> I've done my share of interrailing. The fun is lost on me, I'm afraid. >> >> Jostein > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
