> In 2023, just 64% of long-distance trains reached their destination on time, meaning less than six minutes late, according to a DB spokesperson Compare that

> In 2023, just 64% of long-distance trains reached their destination on time, meaning less than six minutes late, according to a DB spokesperson Compare that to the UK, whose rail system is constantly criticised both within and without the country: > Some 41% of services in that period were at least one minute late, according to BBC analysis of industry data Around the same, except the German definition of late is more than 6 minutes, and the British definition is more than a minute. Damn, Germany.