<story><title>In Europe, trains are full, and more are on the way</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/04/travel/europe-new-trains.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eigenket</author><text>In my opinion the main &amp;quot;low hanging fruit&amp;quot; Europe has with trains are international birders, especially if they&amp;#x27;re trying to compete with flying.&lt;p&gt;Trains in Poland work great, trains in Germany work pretty well but every train I&amp;#x27;ve taken between Poland and Germany has been delayed. The standard thing is that while you&amp;#x27;re in Poland they claim the delay is because of previous delays in Germany and while you&amp;#x27;re in Germany they blame delays from Poland.&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re trying to do something more advanced like get across Germany to Belgium or France &amp;amp; eventually the UK the it gets quite annoying.</text></item><item><author>k__</author><text>Trains are pretty awesome, especially in small Europe. Flying always comes with security hassle. A train is just: get in&amp;#x2F;get out.&lt;p&gt;If Europe would just spent more money on infrastructure.&lt;p&gt;We have trains in Germany that can do 350km&amp;#x2F;h but I&amp;#x27;ve yet to ride one that goes faster than 200, probably because the rails aren&amp;#x27;t what they&amp;#x27;re used to be.&lt;p&gt;Then we have the Germany Ticket. A 50€&amp;#x2F;month subscription to all regional trains (not the fast ones). Which removes the hassle of dealing with local subway and bus companies.&lt;p&gt;But the trains are often late, which sucks, especially if you want to ride in the evening.&lt;p&gt;If Europe could get on Japan&amp;#x27;s level, that would be a dream.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ddek</author><text>German trains wishing to enter Switzerland need to wait at the border so the DB’s, err, _erratic_ scheduling doesn’t perturb the much more rigorous Swiss system.&lt;p&gt;My experience of German trains is one train arriving on time, to find my connection is delayed, but actually leaving earlier because the same train 1h before was 54 minutes late and I could get that instead.</text></comment>
<story><title>In Europe, trains are full, and more are on the way</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/04/travel/europe-new-trains.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eigenket</author><text>In my opinion the main &amp;quot;low hanging fruit&amp;quot; Europe has with trains are international birders, especially if they&amp;#x27;re trying to compete with flying.&lt;p&gt;Trains in Poland work great, trains in Germany work pretty well but every train I&amp;#x27;ve taken between Poland and Germany has been delayed. The standard thing is that while you&amp;#x27;re in Poland they claim the delay is because of previous delays in Germany and while you&amp;#x27;re in Germany they blame delays from Poland.&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re trying to do something more advanced like get across Germany to Belgium or France &amp;amp; eventually the UK the it gets quite annoying.</text></item><item><author>k__</author><text>Trains are pretty awesome, especially in small Europe. Flying always comes with security hassle. A train is just: get in&amp;#x2F;get out.&lt;p&gt;If Europe would just spent more money on infrastructure.&lt;p&gt;We have trains in Germany that can do 350km&amp;#x2F;h but I&amp;#x27;ve yet to ride one that goes faster than 200, probably because the rails aren&amp;#x27;t what they&amp;#x27;re used to be.&lt;p&gt;Then we have the Germany Ticket. A 50€&amp;#x2F;month subscription to all regional trains (not the fast ones). Which removes the hassle of dealing with local subway and bus companies.&lt;p&gt;But the trains are often late, which sucks, especially if you want to ride in the evening.&lt;p&gt;If Europe could get on Japan&amp;#x27;s level, that would be a dream.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>enaaem</author><text>Just built a separate international network, with its own separate system and tracks. The way Japan handles complexity is through redundancy. Japan runs both really old trains, hyper modern high speed rail and everything in between. Each system runs on separate tracks, are from different companies, and are not interconnected.&lt;p&gt;This can be a lesson on how to run complex systems in general.</text></comment>