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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Rick Noack,Meg Kelly and Sandra Mehl

How Europe is trying to get people moving by train

The Washington Post by Sandra Mehl

Waiting on a train platform in Hassleholm, Sweden, Manni Elfborg is both poetic and practical in explaining why his family is taking a 24-hour rail trip, rather than two short-hop flights, to their holiday destination in Slovenia.

Elfborg, 61, talks about the experience of the train – watching landscapes pass by outside the windows. He says he appreciates disembarking in city centres, rather than at airports on the outskirts.

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