What are advantages and disadvantages of travelling by train?
I don’t know where the other people who have answered live, but it can’t be the UK. Disadvantages: Extremely expensive. Still dirty, like they were still using coal fired steam engines. Invariably late. Announcements made by the last people in England still to speak lilting English which used to be put down to the suspicion that the only people teaching English in India were the Welsh. (That was before Partition). A beer in the restaurant/buffet car costs about as much as it does at an airport. Advantages: They mostly go from city centre to city centre. Much quicker from London to Paris than from London to Heathrow to Charles de Gaule to Paris. You can read, or work during the journey. Living out of the UK, they’re cheap (if you’re travelling alone), clean and run on time.
Advantages- Many people can travel together and it means that more people travel together instead of going in cars separately, which results in less pollution. This helps the environment. The train is relatively cheap if you book in advance, and you can see lovely scenery out of the train windows sometimes. If you want to use your laptop, then you can, which is very convenient. Disadvantages: sometimes people are very loud on the train and unfortunately, there is limited space inside the quiet carriage on the train. Also, if people are ill with a bad cough or cold, you are going to breathe in their germs and might get ill.
As compared to travel by airplane, trains are cheaper and significantly roomier and more comfortable. Train stations are generally in or near downtown, while airports are generally on the outskirts of town (this can be an advantage or a disadvatage — for example, someone who’s afraid of big cities might be glad the airport is far away. Someone with a downtown destination would be glad the train station is convenient.) Trains take longer in actual travel time, but the check-in time is quicker, passengers don’t have to take off their shoes, and trains aren’t left stranded on the runway. Airplanes have assigned seats. Most trains have assigned sections, but you find your own seat. This means there’s no guarantee your party can sit together. But it also means you don’t have to stay in one place. Trains have separate club cars, where passengers can go for a drink or a snack. There’s no need to wait for the stewardess, and there’s more selection. On long routes, trains offer sleeper cars, w
