Prediction: Germany is going to be your worst train experience.

embedding-shape 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Prediction: You haven't trained a lot outside of Europe if you think the training experience in Germany would be "your worst train experience".

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Milner08 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Worst during the interrail trip. It was for me and it wasn't even close.

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embedding-shape 4 hours ago | parent [-]

> Worst during the interrail trip.

That wouldn't surprise me. "your worst train experience" still would, unless the person only taken trains in Europe. But the world is big, and some places are just on a different level. Ever taken a train in India? I'd like to hear those people complain about the German train experience :)

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pchangr 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I guess it depends on what you expect. If you expect the train to be on time .. yes, India is much better than Germany. ~80% trains delayed 15 min or less vs Germany 36% trains delayed 15 min or less. It can get pretty bad when your train is delayed so you miss your connection and now you’re stranded in a random town waiting for the next train .. which is coming .. at 5am the next day. Or you can take the regional and hopefully make it in 12 hours with 3 connections instead of your original 4 hour leg. :D

If you expect a comfortable and quiet experience, then I’d agree with you, Germany can be a much nicer experience.

So it’s really about what you value, I guess

	▲	mqus 28 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> I guess it depends on what you expect. If you expect the train to be on time .. yes, India is much better than Germany. ~80% trains delayed 15 min or less vs Germany 36% trains delayed 15 min or less. I won't defend DB too much here but saying that 64% of trains in germany are delayed more than 15min is just plain wrong. The official statistics put it at 40% for 6min or more for long distance trains and 11% for regional trains in 2025[1]. I think if there would be 15min statistics, DB would be on a sinilar level to India for long-distance. Not something to be proud of, but not as desastrous as you paint it. Though, maybe I misunderstood? Do you have sources for the indian numbers? [1] https://eisenbahn.de/geramond-vgb/jahresbilanz-2025-puenktli...

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4ggr0 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

doesn't it say quite a bit about the german train system when you have to compare it to india to make it seem not that bad?

	▲	embedding-shape an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Not at all, India is great at many things, I think this comment might say more about you than what you replied to or trying to say :)

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whazor 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I remember from my interrail planning that big parts of Europe are not nice to visit due to too slow trains. I heard EU wants to fix this though

German train delays are not a big blocker because you normally plan a whole day train travel to go from A to B and being one or two hours late is not too bad.

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Havoc an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yeah saw that one coming from a mile.

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panick21_ 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Actually no. German trains are often late, true, but outside of that its actually very nice. There are a lots of lines and lots of collections. The only time its a bad idea is if you have a real time constraints.

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mr_toad 2 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I try and avoid connecting trains. With each connection you only have about a 50:50 chance of success.

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Someone 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

But the problem is: everybody doing a trip with a transfer has real-time constraints.

With Interrail, that is doable. You’ll have to mostly plan for overnight stays in large cities, but that’s what most Interrail users want to, anyways.

	▲	happosai 8 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Well overnight stays in small towns and sleeper trains are worth experiencing on Interrail too!

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michelb 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Germany is quite predictable compared to some other countries.

	▲	robert_foss 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It is predictably bad. I think I'm 5/5 for my last few trips with big delays or even cancellations of legs.