Is This a New Golden Age for Train Travel?

Tony Naylor doesn’t think so. In this piece in the Guardian, he argues that rail travel isn’t the comfortable, scenic, low-carbon alternative to to air travel that it’s cracked up to be. Here’s a taste:

Four years ago, I decided to limit the number of times I would fly each year to one transatlantic flight, or two within Europe… The idea of the train as a far more authentic and civilised—not to mention non-lethal—mode of travel was seductive.

The reality, however, is more complex. You see more of the world, for sure, but that is a mixed blessing.

The Man in Seat 61 responds here.

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