Which European country has the least overcrowding?

[northwichcat]

From my personal experience it's the Republic of Ireland that has the least overcrowded trains and France and Spain that have the most overcrowded trains outside of the UK, but as I haven't used either of those two country's systems on a regular basis I can't really compare them to the UK.

 

[Ivo]

"Which city has the least overcrowding?"

Um, if it helps, not a German one.

 

[northwichcat]

"Which city has the least overcrowding?"

Um, if it helps, not a German one.

You must have posted that at the same time I noticed the mistake. I meant to say country in the title.

 

[mumrar]

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[EM2]

Seeing as many Irish residents live nowhere near a railway station and have never taken a train in their lives, I can't say I'm surprised.
Although I have seen *very* long queues for trains at Heuston station in Dublin.

 

[Greenback]

Seeing as many Irish residents live nowhere near a railway station and have never taken a train in their lives, I can't say I'm surprised.
Although I have seen *very* long queues for trains at Heuston station in Dublin.

There's usually a very long queue at one particular Dublin station on every Good Friday, but they're not catching a train...!

The only times I've ever been on an irish train they seemed well loaded for part of the route. One from Cork was pretty empty until Limerick Junction, when it became very busy. Strangely, that day many people only went a stop or two, maybe something was on locally!

 

[33056]

Can honestly say that I don't think that I have ever had to stand up on a train in Switzerland - peak hours in the Zurich area can get a bit comfy at times though.

 

[starrymarkb]

I have - though it was a very busy 14 coach ICE1 coming through from Berlin that happened to hit Bern's rush hour (though I got on further down)

 

[gordonthemoron]

ICEs can get pretty packed on friday & sunday evenings due to conscripts going home for the weekend. I've been on an doubled up ICE3 between Frankfurt & Cologne which appeared to have 200% loading

 

[j0hn0]

ICEs can get pretty packed on friday & sunday evenings due to conscripts going home for the weekend. I've been on an doubled up ICE3 between Frankfurt & Cologne which appeared to have 200% loading

aint that the truth. I don't travel too much in rush hour on the trains, but when i do at weekends on the ICE, regardless of whether the train is full and all seats are sold, they still sell tickets for them. Really not a nice experience with everyone irate who hasnt got a seat

The most overcrowded? Has to be Holland right?

I used to live in Haarlem, there is a train every 7 minutes to Amsterdam and each train is a double decker.

From 7am until 10am, the WHOLE platform fills up for EVERY TRAIN. The DDMs have standing room only, every single time I used it.

So just think, a completely full double decker train, every 7 minutes. It's like the whole of Haarlem works in Amsterdam

Saying Ireland is the least crowded network is like saying the cambrian coast line is not full to capacity.

 

[Nigel Gresley]

Can honestly say that I don't think that I have ever had to stand up on a train in Switzerland - peak hours in the Zurich area can get a bit comfy at times though.

In Switzerland there are certainly some rush hour trains which are standing room only, but it is unusual over a long distance. As the passenger numbers are steadily increasing, the limited seating capacity is the problem that the SBB are most concerned about. That is why they have just placed an order for 59 double decker tilting trains.

You can tell which trains are usually crowded by looking at their online timetable.

http://fahrplan.sbb.ch/bin/query.exe/en?&from=Aarau&to=Zurich&time=07:30

 

[jamesontheroad]

Until a few years ago I would have said Northern Ireland (if we skim over the obvious political implications of treating NI as a country). Year after year of funding cuts and disruption due to breakdowns and terror threats, passenger numbers per mile had dropped through the floor. No-one really wanted to use the train and those who did could generally get there faster by bus.