Living in Japan it's easy to forget that late trains are actually a thing that happens to people.
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As a train driver, I manage correct timing all the time by extensively taking shortcuts. You're welcome. /j
Ah, yes, I always love it when the train does Tokyo drift.
I read that in Germany they basically do this. If running late, they don't stop in all the stations to save time. They skipped your station? Boohoo.
That's because a canceled stop does not count for the "delayed" statistic, which they optimize for. It's a great example of how a metric becoming a goal makes it a terrible metric!
I was traveling Europe by train a couple months ago and iirc, only one train were+10 min late (Amsterdam -> Brussels). The rest were one or two minutes and in Spain were on clock all of them. Pretty good experience all around.
Try Germany if you want shitty train service.
The ones I took in Germany were Ok, 5 min late max. I really like that you don't need to show your tickets on the entrance of the trains and the ticket guy was really cool, there was a girl without ticket close to us and he told her that she needs a ticket and please go down the nest station and didn't made a fuss around that.
They must have realized that you are a foreigner and put you on the one punctual train they had to leave a good impression.
I wish. My train home literally just got canceled. Gotta love summer time construction....
The UK makes German trains look good
The last time I was in the UK a train left 2 minutes early. I was already on, but found this shocking. I can hardly imagine my white hot rage if I was running for the train and it left early.
Can you be sure it wasn't the prior train arriving and leaving so late that it appeared to be leaving early?
Or Poland.
Either the train is or time, or just late by checks last few times 45 minutes to 3 hours.
I took an ICE in Germany and spent half the trip standing; even though Iβd booked a seat, some ass was in it and pretended not to speak English until the conductor heard out my complaint.
This is what we call an anecdotal fallacy. I'm glad the trains ran well for you. They do not on average. Have a gander online if you don't believe me.
It's not anecdotal fallacy if the study you linked to shows that Amsterdam -> Brussels would be a train between the 2nd and 3rd less delayed countries at 93-88% of trains on time.
And I don't see Spain in that list which is the other country mentioned.
Germany is known to have a shit train system, which brings the European average down by a lot. That doesn't mean that your European train will be delayed. If you don't touch a German (and apparently, italian) train, your experience will be way better than the average.
Ladies and gentlemen, a mouse has sneezed on the tracks and weβll need to shut down for the next hour.
A further delay will be incurred because on one section of the line we have encountered a brief spot of the wrong sort of rain. We are terribly sorry for the inconvenience.
The company here in question is the Deutsche Bahn, without any doubt
For anyone interested as to why train service in North America is so bad check out Climate Town's latest video on YouTube.
βThe train is cancelled because the wrong leaves are on the trackβ.
Amtrak rail delay issues will always be funny to me because I know for a fact those CSX and BNSF freight trains would willingly blow through a building if it was built on the track lol.
With all these comments about lateness itβs no wonder America got rid of most of its trains. Though itβs not like their buses are any better, but driving certainly is.
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