The irony is that OPs train, the RE5, was actually not run by DB but by 'the competition': a private company called National Express. https://en.wikipedia.org/

The irony is that OPs train, the RE5, was actually not run by DB but by 'the competition': a private company called National Express. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Express_Germany https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Express_Germany