I recently learned of how hard it can be to travel by high speed train internationally in Europe. You can book tickets between major population centers in your own country, and maybe get to 1 or 2 destinations outside of your own country, but that’s it.
I played around with train itinerarys between countries and it’s abysmal. Milan to Barcelona, for example, requires going through 4 countries and 3 different train companies. Or how Eurostar only goes to 1 city in England before forcing you to change to a new train company if you want to go beyond London. And apparently you need to walk across a river from France to Spain to transfer between French and Spanish networks??
So with that being said, is there anyone who would want networks connected? Is there any type of movement for this? Is it even possible? Or is everyone just content with the network being local to their own country?