I love train travel......in Europe.
In America it is dreadful.
Yes but remember in europe trains and mass transit are heavily, heavily subsidized by their massive amounts of taxes.
Nothing is free. Or even cheap. Someone is paying a lot for it somewhere along the line.
Our experience was dreadful, too. Two hours late to our destination, four hours late on the return pick up.
We have taken several train trips in Europe expecting to see the countryside. Guess again, the train quickly dropped into a ditch and we saw NOTHING until we arrived at our destination.
Don’t even think about crossing the English Channel in that boat that really isn’t a boat (can’t think of what it is right now).