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>"Having lived in Germany and experienced the wonderful Deutche Bahn, I wouldn't really associate punctuality with being German." This is relative. In Germany,

>"Having lived in Germany and experienced the wonderful Deutche Bahn, I wouldn't really associate punctuality with being German." This is relative. In Germany, people complain when the train is late. Everywhere else, the train is just late.

pja 6mo ago
IIRC DB currently has a worse punctuality record than the UK rail network. That takes some doing.
dgb23 6mo ago
The Swiss nervously check the time when a train is 2-3 minutes late. When a train is late, the situation is basically on the brink of a national emergency.
- alex_young 6mo ago
  In my experience this is often commiserate with an announcement that the service is late due to it’s arrival from [Germany, Italy, France].
arkensaw 6mo ago
> In Germany, people complain when the train is late. Everywhere else, the train is just late. You think people don't complain when the train is late in other countries? That's hardly a uniquely German thing
- saalweachter 6mo ago
  To be honest, I complain more often when the train is on time.
sersi 6mo ago
I mean I've regularly seen trains in germany arriving AFTER the next train. Statistically they are worse than pretty much any european country. And outside of trains, my german friends run the gamut of being always on time to systematically being 30 minutes late. Don't really see much of a correlation between being German and punctual. Japan on the other hand I do associate with punctuality, when I worked there I was made to sit in the seiza postion for the m9rniny meeting if I was late by even 3 minutes. My friends there were overwhelmingly ontime except (and proving my point) for a German coworker I had there :)
Zababa 6mo ago
This is not true, people complain a lot in France when the trains are late.
GTP 6mo ago
I am currently living abroad, but I come from northern Italy. Rest assured that we complain a lot about our trains being late.

pja 6mo ago

IIRC DB currently has a worse punctuality record than the UK rail network. That takes some doing.

dgb23 6mo ago

The Swiss nervously check the time when a train is 2-3 minutes late. When a train is late, the situation is basically on the brink of a national emergency.

alex_young 6mo ago
In my experience this is often commiserate with an announcement that the service is late due to it’s arrival from [Germany, Italy, France].

arkensaw 6mo ago

> In Germany, people complain when the train is late. Everywhere else, the train is just late. You think people don't complain when the train is late in other countries? That's hardly a uniquely German thing

saalweachter 6mo ago
To be honest, I complain more often when the train is on time.

sersi 6mo ago

I mean I've regularly seen trains in germany arriving AFTER the next train. Statistically they are worse than pretty much any european country. And outside of trains, my german friends run the gamut of being always on time to systematically being 30 minutes late. Don't really see much of a correlation between being German and punctual. Japan on the other hand I do associate with punctuality, when I worked there I was made to sit in the seiza postion for the m9rniny meeting if I was late by even 3 minutes. My friends there were overwhelmingly ontime except (and proving my point) for a German coworker I had there :)

Zababa 6mo ago

This is not true, people complain a lot in France when the trains are late.

GTP 6mo ago

I am currently living abroad, but I come from northern Italy. Rest assured that we complain a lot about our trains being late.