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I can't see the 185s going anywhere away from fTPE, given the two new maintenance depots which were built specially for them, at Ardwick and York.

You shouldn't need to use a night train to do the trip. Eurostar to Brussels, Thalys/ICE to Cologne and then an IC from there to Hamburg should be easily do-able in the daytime. Of course, if you want to save money, flying may well be cheaper.

Thanks for the stats. It's interesting that their definition of late running is 4 minutes or more; the UK system would change those stats somewhat. I'm aware of the bad image; the bottom line is that most of the population isn't in favour of their public service being privatised, and I'm not...

Thanks everyone for the replies. I'll put them towards a trip either on GC or WSM, and buy the ticket at the departure station.

I've got 40-odd pounds worth of vouchers as a result of a TOC not performing to the timetable. Can I use them as payment or part-payment for a ticket on an open access operator like Grand Central? Ta for any expert advice.

DB's record for punctuality went out of the window with re-unification in 1989. I haven't experienced all that much seriously late running over the last 8 years or so, though. The trains I've used on this trip so far have all been on time, by UK definitions of the phrase, if not German ones:)

Schenker was a big, German, DB-owned forwarding and logistics company, which they sold off and later re-inherited. When they got it back, they put their whole freight sales and marketing operations into it and re-branded themselves as DB-Schenker. I'm quite sure the EWS fleet will eventually be...

I thought Platinum trains was about getting passengers off BA and Easyjet, etc., rather than trying to abstract revenue from NXEC.

I've made a couple of trips in Germany over the last two weeks. First saw me on an ICE-T (the tilting variety) which was deputising for the normal ICE2 from Duesseldorf to Bielefeld, so I got a driver's eye view. The second was from Bielefeld to Basel the other day. Bought my ticket from a...