I remember when my foster fathers train started going backwards and added an extra 8 hours to his trip. Making him come home very late. Like how can geemany has such a city train system? My countries is way better than that(Hungary)
They've not properly invested in their railway system for decades. They've only spent money on maintenance, not actual improvements to it. That maintenance also causes issues, because instead of actually renewing railway infrastructure, they now need to spend more and more time on fixing old infrastructure, which also causes delays.
At the same time traffic keeps increasing, but they already don't really have the capacity for it, so if something minor goes wrong, it cascades throughout the entire network.
They also have a lot of old signalling infrastructure, which needs to work together, but often doesn't. That old infrastructure also frequently breaks. They need to replace them with digital interlocks, and move to ETCS everywhere, but that's a massive project that takes years, if not decades.
So basically they could fix it, if they'd actually invest in it and plan for it.
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u/Bot1-The_Bot_Meanace 22h ago
Pretty sure if you take the train you can make that Germany crossing in 30 hours as well