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Date: 2019-02-08 03:33 pm (UTC)(At least that's the only instance I know of. I can name two other works using trains for interstellar travel: Galaxy Railways and Timothy Zahn's Quadrail series. But IIRC both of those require people to first get into space before using the trains.)
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Date: 2019-02-09 12:51 am (UTC)How To Train Your Way To The Stars
Date: 2019-02-09 03:28 pm (UTC)I have a theory for the "Doctor Who" setting that whenever you change an event, especially in the past but maybe not always, all the other Doctor Who stories are liable to be invalidated, so that's one explanation for this space train network never appearing before or since, it got written out of history - another answer being that yet again humankind realised that their latest popular invention was terribly dangerous and they got rid of it. Like when the T-Mat teleport network was - well, that's another story; or, was.
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Date: 2019-02-13 03:57 am (UTC)No doubt fares are complicated. Like, it can take an Oyster card only if loaded with pre-decimal currency...
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Date: 2019-02-09 01:49 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2019-02-09 06:47 am (UTC)One civilization's "data archive stored at the atomic level in ceramic disks" is another's "we think they were, like, tokens for using the transit system".
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Date: 2019-02-09 05:57 pm (UTC)An aside: I'm surprised no one mentioned the Telzey Amberdon novel The Lion Game wherein most of the story takes place in a networked cluster of disconnected rooms.