Plenty of leg room. Opportunity to nap, read, talk on the cell phone or work on the Internet. An attendant with a cart selling sandwiches and drinks. And lovely views of verdant, rolling pastures as we sped past.
Recent train trips in southern England reminded me just how pleasant rail travel can be – and kindled my enthusiasm for the prospect of restoring passenger-train service in central Iowa.
My husband and I, visiting a niece and her husband in Fortuneswell, a tiny hamlet on England’s southeastern coast, took a train from London to the seaside city of Weymouth, about a three-hour trip. And from there, we took a one-day sightseeing trip to Bath, about two hours away, home to such grand Georgian architecture that the entire city has been designated a Unesco World Heritage Site.
Trains were on time, the schedules were easy enough to decipher, and heck, even the restroom was clean.
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