> Like the kind every European country figured out how to do properly While I can't compare to US railways, EU railways have their fair share of issues. There

> Like the kind every European country figured out how to do properly While I can't compare to US railways, EU railways have their fair share of issues. There might indeed be a fairly large offer, the structures running them seem to be an organisational mess in many countries. Just some examples I know of: * The Netherlands and Belgium ordered trains that were never able to drive [1]. * Rail is sometimes referred to as Germany's inefficiency secret [2]. * Rail privatisation in the UK isn't very popular [3]. Obviously it isn't all bad. But it also isn't organised properly in many EU countries. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyra [2] http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/a-series-of-defects-german-rail-s-growing-image-problem-a-706240.html http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/a-series-of-defe... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privatisation_of_British_Rail#Impact https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privatisation_of_British_Rail#...