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Best railways in Europe, and maybe worldwide, is, hands down, Germany! :)
We have a continuous high speed network between the mayor cities (from 2030 2tph) on the on hand an on the other hand Takt-scheduling for local trains, it is very cheap if you book a couple of days in advance (Sparpreis)...
Only ten of them exist so fare. Because of the massive "success" they expanded the OHLE section on A5 motorway now to a total of 12km.
It is a massiv waste of taxpayers money if you ask me.
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The Frankfurt-Mannheim line (so called Riedbahn) is currently closed from 01.01 til 22.01 as kind of a...
There are two non-stop ICE services per hour and one RB train from Würzburg to Frankfurt, so why did you wait in Würzburg for an hour on the 720 that left Munich already 45' late???o_O
The energy demand of the whole train is so high that the overhead line would kind of melt under 1,5kV.
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When the train is moving they only use one panto.
As soon as the train you are supposed to take has more then 20 minutes delay, you can just take the next one of your choice...
Sadly the NL/BE services still suffer from poor reliability of the multi system Velaros, also the main line between Düsseldorf and Cologne is still closed for...
If the EC Munich-Zurich arrives with more than 2 minutes delay at the Swiss border station of St. Margreten it is getting "isolated" and has to follow the S-Bahn with +30' as an end result, that's the other extrem...
this would improve things a lot if we would just "isolate", as it is called in Switzerland, delayed trains.
Current procedure is that on-time RB/RE trains have to wait for delayed IC/ICEs.
So the RE gets +5 because it has to give way to an ICE with +20, but it is then getting in way of the next...
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