I had a similar experience on my last trip home. All trains from Manchester Piccadilly were either cancelled or delayed. Liverpool bound trains were delayed because a train had actually broken down. As I live in Japan you can imagine how absolutely unbelievable that was.
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That’s what I used to call Patrick Berger.
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This is just straight up wumming. Reported.
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Haha @mattyhurst
They’re longer than City’s charge sheet.
Nothing’s longer than City’s charge sheet.
EDIT:
I would like to apologise to @Klopptimist, I forgot Chelsea’s squad list.
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Have to agree here, went from Berlin to Dresden a few years ago, excellent service.
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Another example of tiny sample sizes being largely useless in analysis
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That’s literally @Klopptimist’s whole thing.
Well, I apologise then. Wouldn’t want to trample over his whole thing.
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I did Oranienburg to Berlin and a few other S-Bahn trips they seemed ok.
I was probably immersed with the double decker trains and the ability to get a seat.
I’ll be doing Berlin to Dresden next time so I’ll feed back.
I generally think GWR services to Cornwall are ok (if just often a bit late, though delay repay helps soften the blow).
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To follow-up, anecdotal but every single train issue I’ve had in mainland Europe has been in Germany. Once took a train from Poznań to Berlin, operated in Poland by PKP, no issues until the border. In that short stretch from the border to Berlin, somehow they managed to get a 1 hour+ delay built-in.
München to Paris, somehow the DB train got cancelled but the SNCF ones were still running.
Plzen to München, guess on which side of the border the delays were? Köln to Berlin took an eternity because of some accident the night before, etc.
The regional trains in Germany seem OK but longer distance ones seem to be delayed as a matter of course.
It’s difficult to compare it with he UK. Even on Merseyrail it is hugely variable. You could almost set your watch by the Wirral line, but the City line appears only to exist on paper.
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I got a train from Prague to Vienna in the summer and that was quite a pleasant journey.
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This means nothing to me.
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They are when you live just behind a Canadian track for a year. Those bloody horns too……
Paging @Magnus
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Absolutely. There are currently no llamas outside my window QED they don’t exist. My middle name is Blackduckfallacy but only because my parent’s were incompetent ornithologists.
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In comparison to British railways it is lightyears ahead. If you ever have the misfortune of travelling on Northern Rail you’ll discover real pain!
I used to have to take the Widnes to Warrington line every day. Delayed with out exception every morning then to add insult to injury the employer I had “fined” us for being late. Wankers cost me so much money!
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This literally had me dancing, with tears in my eyes, but it wont be forever and ever
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