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> you'd need a larger and more complex ferry Don't those already exist?

> you'd need a larger and more complex ferry Don't those already exist? I don't know, but I assume that regular passenger ferries operate on this route, no? > it would have been a nightmare to wake up everyone at like 3am I presume that if one were offloading passengers onto an existing ferry one would not schedule the train to arrive during normal ferry operating hours rather than 3AM. I think the right answer here is that Sicily is bigger than I thought, about 100 miles across, and so the onward travel time can be significant, and so if you're going to offer a night train whose final destination is (say) Marsala then putting the train on a ferry in the middle of the night makes sense.

Posted by lisper on Oct 27, 2025, 8:44 PM

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> you'd need a larger and more complex ferry Don't those already exist?

lisperOct 27, 2025, 8:44 PM

> you'd need a larger and more complex ferry Don't those already exist? I don't know, but I assume that regular passenger ferries operate on this route, no? > it would have been a nightmare to wake up everyone at like 3am I presume that if one were offloading passengers onto an existing ferry one would not schedule the train to arrive during normal ferry operating hours rather than 3AM. I think the right answer here is that Sicily is bigger than I thought, about 100 miles across, and so the onward travel time can be significant, and so if you're going to offer a night train whose final destination is (say) Marsala then putting the train on a ferry in the middle of the night makes sense.

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