I have no idea if you can collect train miles like air miles!

I’m metric so I would need to work out the kilometres to miles between each place I have been to. Much be thousands!

It’s fourteen hundred kilometres from Kyiv to Berlin! I have kept my train tickets for all the journeys I have made. I’m not sure what I am going to do with them but likely some kind of wall art, maybe a coffee table top.

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FreddieUK · 70-79, M

The rail industry is so different from the air industry that it couldn't work across borders. Individual companies may offer deals, but they tend to be confined to cheaper tickets available to all. I can see why the nationalised railways wouldn't be interested in cooperating with competing private enterprise companies, especially since very few long distance trains actually make much of a profit, and most are subsidised.

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FreddieUK · 70-79, M

@ArishMell CCT is run by Arriva, but they now belong to I Squared Capital (since 2024). DB Cargo has a lot of competition in the rail freight business and by no means have a monopoly these days.

I should add that only passenger services are being re-nationalised.

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@FreddieUK Very difficult these days know who owns whom and where, especially as so many companies are in the clutches of mere, shallow money-traders with deliberately obscure names.

I wonder if rail freight is easier than passenger services to open up to competition by its nature.

whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M

@ArishMell Freight is a separate business to be carved off. But the passenger business is not a for profit business. Instead it supports the community in traffic control, pollution, fuel imports, parking availability. And mobility of the population for everything from job vacancies to education.😷

Strictmichael75 · 61-69, M

Unfortunately not

samueltyler2 · 80-89, M

You can in the US.

dirge · M

the factor is abot 1.6

so 1600 km ~=1000m

whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M

A great background for a travel pic montage..😷

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