Just came back from MEX. Used latest LP from a year ago.
Chapter on trains is cxompletely out of date. Service very
much reduced, from MEX only running:
day and night train to Vera Cruz, takes 14-15 hours!
3times a week to Monterrey-N.Laredo, connects with train to
Piedras Negras border
other promised services:
Vera Cruz-Coatzacoalcos; COA-Mareida; COA-RTapachula;
Tampico-Cd. Victoria; Aguas Calientes-Torreon; Puebla-
Oaxaca (daily, now in daytime, both ways). All trains have
only one class of seats, numbered, but no adavnce bookings,
no more sleepers, restaurants or anything else. Just for
information.
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What timetables did you find? Could you post departure times/
days? To what month did these refer (April '99? May '99)?
The few remaining services on the Mexican RR are changing
fast; I doubt that any printed book could keep up.
Dear fellows -and publishers (I hope you'll read this):
I like LP guides. A lot. I use them extensively throught
(some parts of) the world, when I travel. I find them to be
the best. Being Mexican, I do not use the Mexico guide as
much, because I tend to be ahead of info and to know a
little bit more of some things, and to have access to more
literature, and so on. But from the first time I got the
Mexico guide I thought paper must be cheap in Australia.
Pages and pages giving departure times for buses and
trains. Completely useless. Not because schedules change;
this is normal. In Mexico, you just walk in and the bus is
there, more or less. In remote places there is just one bus
a day. Use your common sense to judge if the bus leaves
early in the morning from the market place or to the market
place. As far as trains are concerned, yes, and allas, they
have been almost discontinued. A little research has to be
done. Publishers can update this, and forget about giving
bus departures -or then go the utmost detail and give us
the color of the buses.
Yourstruly.