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Re:Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn by vintagedave on Monday December 29, 2025 @11:40AM (#46422366)
It is also extraordinarily expensive, and since the cuts in the 1960s you have a fraction of the railway lines. It is absolutely terrible.

Who knows if it was better in the nationalised days, but it sure needs some unification and central governance without a profit motive today.

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Re:Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn by dash2 on Monday December 29, 2025 @12:43PM (#46423139)
> Who knows if it was better in the nationalised days

I do. I was there. It wasn't.

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Re:Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn by tim333 on Monday December 29, 2025 @01:32PM (#46423719)
Also if you look at the usage numbers they dropped off in the nationalised days and picked back up after https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_rail_transport_in_G...

I was around but not a heavy rail user in the nationalised days though the stories back then were quite reminiscent of the current DB stories.

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