Europe's Rail Operators: A Comparative Ranking

Re:Europe's Rail Operators: A Comparative Ranking by twiss on Monday December 09, 2024 @09:27AM (#42366500)

Having lived in both the Netherlands and Switzerland, I don't quite understand how NS scores that much worse than SBB. Sure, NS is expensive, but not more so than SBB (especially now that you can book in advance and get discounts, although that's relatively recent so perhaps it wasn't taken into account).

They say the booking experience is worse, but you don't have to book NS trains at all, you can just tap in and out with your credit card or OV chip card, can't be much easier than that.

> All operators, except NS, provide adequate information on compensation policies for delayed trains in English or another foreign language

Huh? https://www.ns.nl/en/customer-service/refunds/refunds-for-de...

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Re:Europe's Rail Operators: A Comparative Ranking by kippel on Monday December 09, 2024 @10:00AM (#42366788)

I was also surprised by the low score of NS. I think the ranking puts too much weight on pricing.

NS is quite expensive, but the service is way better than say, DB. In my last trip from the Netherlands to Germany, officially 2:45 hours, I had a 45 minutes delay just on the German side, on both ways, at least they are consistent.

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