Watched this video while in a hotel, funnily enough, thanks to a DB cancelling my train mid-journey

The closure of the high speed line was most likely caused by vandalism as i remember this happen not too long ago. In fact, it happened again in Bochum this friday. Thankfully they caught the thieves.

Wasnt the closure of the high speed line due to someone stealing cables or another form of sabotage? That was around December 2023 if I remember correctly

Hi Simon, I think you have described the state of the German railway network well. Not only do we prefer to build new motorways, we haven't spent enough on maintaining the infrastructure since 1999, even at EU27 level. So you no longer have to wonder why the DB has been running on wear and tear for years. I'm not even going to start talking about the delivery and software problems of the railway manufacturers. I work for Siemens and our experts estimate that this will continue for at least another 10 years. They haven't invested anything for almost 30 years and then I'm not surprised that they can no longer make rail projects palatable to the public.

The hard product itself is the best high speed train out there imo - ICE trains are more spacious than options like the TGV, modern and comfortable, with good design inside and out 👏. Will be cool to see what direction the ICE 5 will take!

2:41 “Platform 15 can be accessed by escalator and lift”, proceeds to use stairs.

Nicely made review, thanks for sharing! 👍 We love to travel by train in Europe and it always is our first choice. Unfortunately you can't rely on DB anymore, their ontime performance is a pain ever since years. We still prefer them much over flying e.g. but you need to be careful and sometimes very flexible when planning on connections. We find their ICE trains to be very comfortable and their Staff onboard always friendly and helpful. Hopefully german politicians finally wake up and do their job. In the end it's them causing all the trouble!

wow, i'm early for once! anyways, nice video as per usual simon. to be honest, i like the velaros due to their design haha

I am very impressed with how well Germans patronize their high and slow speed trains. Thanks for sharing.

My tactic has sadly become not to go to places in Germany anymore if it requires a change of trains the same day. From Switzerland, I take a direct train to a place in Germany, stay in a hotel for 1 or 2 nights, and then a direct train to my final destiny. The bad thing is that I have to do the same thing again, when returning. And it is an expensive way to avoid stress.

Regardless of the delay, at least the accommodations on the Velaro look comfy

I was on the high speed rail line between Koln and Munchen. They cancelled our train outside of Munchen but only put the announcement over the speaker in German. So after all the German speakers got off we realized we needed to switch and tried to pile a completely full ICE train into another completely full ICE train. So we ended up standing for the last hour and a bit to Munchen. I was in Bremen this past week and I was supposed to take the train from Bremen to Dusseldorf at 05:40. At 04:00 they cancelled my train and it was only by pure luck that I realized there was an earlier train to get me to Dusseldorf in time for my flight. But that diversion resulted in an hour and a half extra of train time which was less then fun. When it works its great but the DB definitely needs to keep investing in its infrastructure, train sets and service collectively.

I never thought we'd get to a point where the "efficient" German DB would get so bad it would make the UK rail network look punctual. They really need to get themselves sorted out.

We booked a journey in 1st Class from Cologne to Basel (on an SBB train). It left one hour late and the service was unexpectedly terminated at Karlsruhe, supposedly due to a casualty on the line ahead. We were told to board the ICE on the adjacent platform. It was already overcrowded and we ended up standing in the bellows between two carriages. It travelled on the line where the casualty was supposed to be but got as far as Offenberg where we were told there would be at least a 100 minute delay before the next announcement. I spotted a local train going to Freiburg im Breisgau. We took that and our ICE then passed us on route. Freiburg platforms were overcrowded. It was chaos! Eventually we caught a local train to Basel. We were 5 hours late getting to our final destination. DB are rubbish IMHO.

Yes the infrastructure delays are responsibility of the owner of the infrastructure. Unfortunately for DB the infrastructure is owned by a company called DB Netze AG

ukposts.info/have/v-deo/r4ibnKmxsGiXmqs.html For all German speakers, the band WISE GUYS brought to the point the whole misery after the privatisation of the Deutsche Bundesbahn under Chancellor Schroeder and DB CEO Mehdorn in this hilarious song. For everyone who doesn't understand German, the video says it all as well. That song is about 20 years old...

To all the British people: DB is basically just like TPE, but if it was your national operator

It's so ironic but normal that the best Siemens Velaro experience is not in Germany.

This is common. It has always been like this and I am certain that you are aware of beforehand.

Unlikely, but if you ever end up in Oldenburg (Oldb) there's also a model railway there.

You should have mentioned/added the second part (previous video)of your journey as well

Take an Amtrak train in the US and you will be happy to arrive on the scheduled day.

Please take a Look at the Stations in Kassel.

ahh i was expecting some model railway action 😉

Hvad med at lave videoer med hvordan man køber billetter i de forskellige lande? F.eks Schweiz er et mareridt at finde ud af. Tyskland har bahnkarte, hvad er det? O.S.V. Dernæst samler du dem i en playliste, efterhånden som de bliver klar. Bare et forslag. Gert

I seem to have missed where you had a serious issue with the train itself, as the title suggests. Not a fan of that kind of clickbait. Yes the service is terrible at (many) times. The 407 is mostly not part of the array of problems.

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1:16 As long as you use the main entrance yes. There are Sbahn station underpasses that smell less of piss than the left side entrance.

You have one of the best high speed rail system in the world and you're complaining try the US

Atp one is better off flying

just a few more years and Germany will also have the FRECCIAROSSA train

So not the trains are bad!

tbh i don't know what you mean by their success? :D

What is so bad on this train?

Please avoid filming people, it is not allowed to film strangers without explicit permission in Germany.

Focus on high speed trains was a strategic error - a battle against planes that can't be won not even ecological and carbon whise (HS infrastructure is concrete intense and expensive) while the infrastructure at large is stuck in the 19. Century. With the budget for highspeed they could have converted the whole network to speed.

What utter garbage

Look, i love u, honestly. BUT PLEASE stop saying "munshen", I'm not even german, but that is PAINFUL to hear, it's not "sh" it's "h". Ok anyway bye 😘

DB is the worst train operator in central and western Europe.