I have a confession: I’ve recently taken a fair few journeys across the UK by rail and it worked well, the tickets weren’t crazy expensive, the trains were clean and on the time, and the connections (even on Northern) were good.
(Is this the sort of contrary take that gets me a column in Spiked.)
(Is this the sort of contrary take that gets me a column in Spiked.)
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Olaf Storbeck
Olaf Scholz mocked British railways over “broken tracks and bad trains”, claiming that "nothing works any more” in the UK. Turns out: Germany rail problems have become so bad that Deutsche Bahn long-distance service is less punctual than even the worst operator in Britain. www.ft.com/content/d3b6...
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On the way there I'm going 1st class, a table to work at and breakfast included - £90
On the way home, standard class, £18 (cheapest, slowest option was just £9)
That's really not bad for a business trip
He was telling me about some airport they built that was decades late for completion.
I was shocked, German efficiency and everything.
It should be expressed as a percentage of journey time. <101% is on time, then 110%, then 120%.
Still crazy expensive normally tho
(I am now going to get a long train journey from a Pennine branch to London which will no doubt be screwed.)
Also: BREAKING NEWS - Things slowly improving! Is a boring headline.
They're pretty interested in talking about it.
It's not huge yet but it's starting to build