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High speed trains in France, Germany, Italy, ... all usually go to the city centres as well.

• fransje26 2y ago
  > in France Not really. They can, but mostly only do so at end stations. The network is built with excentered, specific stations meant to avoid the slow-down caused by merging into normal train traffic, with slow, crowded track sections.
  • brnt 2y ago
    If you are talking about the stations at Lyon Exupery or Disney: what I really like about the SNCF is that they offer you the choice. There definitely are trains that go through the center of Lyon (Part Dieu) if you want, but if you want to pass around (and then take the tram/bus), you can too. I never had to choose one of those out-of-town stations if I didn't want to. If you are talking about Ouigo, yes, but you get a low price in return. And it's not your only option.
• panick21_ 2y ago
  In Germany usually they go to the normal network, they don't have a direct high speed connection to the city center.
• KingOfCoders 2y ago
  The downside here in Germany, the trains are very fast but then slow down to go to the city center (Munich, Leipzig, Hamburg + also too many stops in general for political reasons) - so it still takes a working day to travel around. As Amdahl's law applies here, newer high speed trains in Germany are no longer as fast, because if you have these slow passages / many stops, there is no difference between 250 and 300 (there are some prestige 300km/h lines).
• chgs 2y ago
  I couldn’t believe how slow trains in Germany were last month, even before the inevitable delays. Berlin to geneva averaged 70mph. Brussels to Leipzig was scheduled even slower and ended up 2 hours late. Even the train I took from Geneva to Paris crawled for the first hour.