Tourists visiting Europe are often advised to travel by train rather than plane or car. Trains are considered reliable, fast and relatively cheap. But as a new research project shows, there are major differences within Europe: Whereas you can travel from London to Paris in less than four hours, traveling the same distance can last more than 22 hours in eastern Europe.
A nice little series of isochrone maps showing how far you can get by rail in a day from major European cities. The infrastructure divide between western and eastern europe is shown pretty starkly… and poor old Dublin stuck on the other side of slow ferries to England! One minor quibble is that the intensity of red used for the first two units of time on the scale are very difficult to tell apart (and they represent 2 and 6 hours respectively, so that difference is quite substantial!), but the overall effectiveness of the graphics is still quite strong.
Source: Washington Post