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In Germany in 2025 it got worse with only 55% of trains being on time (defined very generously as being less than 6 minutes late).

• mcv 10mo ago
  I find this figure absolutely baffling. How can you run a train system with half of all trains being late?
  • apexalpha 10mo ago
    Someone has never been outside the Western world, lol. In many countries the train comes when it comes and goes when it can, regardless of any fictional like schedules.
    • mcv 10mo ago
      I have. Mali didn't have trains at all. Our Indonesian train was on time. It's not like countries outside Europe can't make trains run on time. Japan's are even more punctual than Switzerland's.
    • alexfoo 10mo ago
      (Hence the occasionally heard witty announcement in the UK…) “Please mind the gap between the timetable and reality.”
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