From: stephen@sprunk.org

On 13-Apr-15 13:23, Marc Van Dyck wrote:
> jimmygeldburg@gmail.com used his keyboard to write :
>> Stephen Sprunk wrote:
>>> I traveled overnight from Paris to Amsterdam in a couchette, and
>>> I really liked that concept.  There was absolutely no privacy (5
>>> other strangers in the same room), but it was a _lot_ cheaper
>>> than having a room to myself and more comfortable than a coach
>>> seat; I probably wouldn't have made the trip at all if that
>>> option weren't available
>>
>> The Thalys makes that trip in 3:18.  Why do you need an overnight
>> train?
>
> As far as I remember, the Thalys and the overnight train never
> coexisted. As usual with SNCF, when TGVs came in, all other trains
> on the same journey disappeared. So Stephen did not have the choice.
> There were daytime trains that took approximately 6 hours for that
> journey.

At the time, there were both CoRail night trains and Thalys day trains
on that route; perhaps the former hadn't been discontinued yet because
SNCF itself didn't (and AFAICT still doesn't) operate TGVs there.

S

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