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> "well, it seems nobody likes taking night trains any more, so let's cancel them" It's a bit more insidious than that. I suspect they were deliberately cancel
by elric 6y ago
> "well, it seems nobody likes taking night trains any more, so let's cancel them"
It's a bit more insidious than that. I suspect they were deliberately cancelled so they wouldn't compete with high speed rail. HS rail is much more expensive, and can't compete with night trains. So night trains had to go in order to make room for for HS rail.
Of course, now that all forms travel are much more accessible and affordable, night trains and HS rail might coexist -- if we get rid of cheap air travel.
- morsch 6y agoThey also thought it was pointless to even try to compete with air travel. Hartmut Mehdorn, the CEO of DB AG (German rail) from 2009-2019 was an airline executive before and after he wrecked/lead German rail. Rüdiger Grube, who succeeded him, was a former aerospace and car executive. Many (all?) of the chairmen of the board through those years were also aerospace executives, e.g. Christoph Franz was at Lufthansa before his stint at DB AG and the Lufthansa CEO a couple of years after it. Karl-Friedrich Rausch was at Lufthansa for 15 years before becoming a leading executive at DB AG.