Capitaine Train Slated to Become Leading Train-Booking Site in Europe...
Oct 14th, 2013, 01:02 PM
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Capitaine Train Slated to Become Leading Train-Booking Site in Europe...
says an article in the Guardian newspaper, being much more user-friendly it says than the SNCF site and others.:
The following is from the article:
Capitaine Train and Loco2
"It's early days but French start-up Capitaine Train has recently secured extra funding and is moving forward in its quest to be the leading train-booking site in Europe. It's already built up a fanbase by being more user-friendly than SNCF (which also has an annoying tendency to automatically redirect UK users to Rail Europe). It is built as a journey planner, however, so you have to enter your proposed trip dates, rather than being able to simply browse reams of timetables. It currently only sells tickets for a limited number of companies (including SNCF), but it could be one to watch. UK-based Loco2.com, who partner with Guardian Trains, is also riding the same wave; both companies have been able to build their services after the EU took action to allow more competition in the European rail market."
Q - What the heck is Guardian Trains - the Guardian is not into booking trains - will Snowden finally be able to take a train out of Britain to Ecuador?
Guardian Trains - I'll have to look into that!
The following is from the article:
Capitaine Train and Loco2
"It's early days but French start-up Capitaine Train has recently secured extra funding and is moving forward in its quest to be the leading train-booking site in Europe. It's already built up a fanbase by being more user-friendly than SNCF (which also has an annoying tendency to automatically redirect UK users to Rail Europe). It is built as a journey planner, however, so you have to enter your proposed trip dates, rather than being able to simply browse reams of timetables. It currently only sells tickets for a limited number of companies (including SNCF), but it could be one to watch. UK-based Loco2.com, who partner with Guardian Trains, is also riding the same wave; both companies have been able to build their services after the EU took action to allow more competition in the European rail market."
Q - What the heck is Guardian Trains - the Guardian is not into booking trains - will Snowden finally be able to take a train out of Britain to Ecuador?
Guardian Trains - I'll have to look into that!
Oct 14th, 2013, 01:06 PM
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http://www.seat61.com/news.htm#.UlxcEVDrwtE
Good ole Mark Smith, Man in Seat 61 who occasionally posts on Fodor's adds his endorsement of Capitaine currently on his site - there was a thread on Capitaine recently on Fodor's as well.
Good ole Mark Smith, Man in Seat 61 who occasionally posts on Fodor's adds his endorsement of Capitaine currently on his site - there was a thread on Capitaine recently on Fodor's as well.
Oct 14th, 2013, 02:10 PM
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The Guardian (the outlet for illiberal, self-indulgent, opinionating that would make COP Scott, the best-known editor of its outstanding predecessor, turn in his grave) has lost money more or less constantly since it moved to London in 1959.
It's stayed alive by constant infusions from elsewhere in the Guardian Media Group, a constantly changing collection of regional print, trade and advertising-only media - including, in the web era, sites doing pretty much what loco2 do.
Till now, partly because of the legal restrictions imposed by the Scott Trust, which regulates how The Guardian (but not the rest of the Guardian Media Group's activities) is managed, the grubbier dealings of the Group have never carried The Guardian's endorsement: indeed the Guardian's perennially sanctimonious gauleiters, led by posh gits like Polly Toynbee, have long sneered at such crudity when professionally-managed media groups have done it.
High in the value system of Guardianistas is the belief in the sanctity of railways: especially when destroying countryside and squandering tens of billions of pounds that might otherwise provide health care. So commercial endorsement is just fine: as long as it's not for anything real people might be interested in.
It's stayed alive by constant infusions from elsewhere in the Guardian Media Group, a constantly changing collection of regional print, trade and advertising-only media - including, in the web era, sites doing pretty much what loco2 do.
Till now, partly because of the legal restrictions imposed by the Scott Trust, which regulates how The Guardian (but not the rest of the Guardian Media Group's activities) is managed, the grubbier dealings of the Group have never carried The Guardian's endorsement: indeed the Guardian's perennially sanctimonious gauleiters, led by posh gits like Polly Toynbee, have long sneered at such crudity when professionally-managed media groups have done it.
High in the value system of Guardianistas is the belief in the sanctity of railways: especially when destroying countryside and squandering tens of billions of pounds that might otherwise provide health care. So commercial endorsement is just fine: as long as it's not for anything real people might be interested in.
Oct 14th, 2013, 10:35 PM
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As of a few days ago, Capitaine Train now lets you buy not just train tickets in Germany but also reserved seats. However, for the time being, the implementation leaves something to be desired - you cannot stipulate the type or location of the seat, the carriage number and seat number only shows up after the transaction has been completed.
