I’m really quite the train buff. Not at home of course, I wouldn’t dream of using a train. But elsewhere, no problem. It got us all over Belguim, with really scary ramps, steep high and long drop. Luckily the guys operating the system know what they’re at and watch you like a hawk.
so it works.
Ring them the day before, let them know you’re coming . This is particularly good if you get held up. And are running late.
Prague to Vienna, we hit the main station in Prague what slowed us up was the need for lifts to get around.
Got to the information office and were rushed to the train. (They’d held it) No ramps. Eek. We stopped at a carriage door. waved back. A side of the carriage wall opened up and a floor plate dropped. I rolled on, a lip came up behind me. The floor plate raised to train height and I rolled in.
Ramp/Lift drops is folded and back into the side of the carriage..Cheese and apple with coffee, particularly good and off to Vienna.
Comfortable straight run, with wifi and goodies. (I think its counted as an automatic upgrade to first class if you re on wheels)
It was a nice run through the Slovakian and Austrian countryside. Stopped in Vienna, and out the same way as we came in.
Really civilised and very good.
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