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Jon Worth Jul 8, 2023

I see Deutsche Bahn has taken to behaving like a night train startup and started drawing lines on maps - for a sort of dream 2050 high speed network

https://www.deutschebahn.com/de/presse/pressestart_zentrales_uebersicht/DB-legt-Studie-zum-Ausbau-des-Hochgeschwindigkeitsverkehrs-in-Europa-vor--10878404

Sure, aim high. But there's not a hope in hell this comes to pass given current politics. I don't think DB can even deliver on the bits of it that it'd have to deliver on

DB legt Studie zum Ausbau des Hochgeschwindigkeitsverkehrs in Europa vor

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Rob Abram Jul 8, 2023

@jon given that they can’t manage a stable hourly service on the VBB RE7 (this afternoon consecutive services were cancelled, delayed by 120 minutes, delayed by 70 minutes, and delayed by 15 minutes) or notice that a 5-coach Talent every hour at weekends is JUST NOT ENOUGH, I have no reason to believe in their airy-fairy plans.

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Jon Worth

@robabram Right. Or that in Fernverkehr they’re incapable of getting Bruxelles - Frankfurt running reasonably. The company has too many short term fires to fight to have a hope of doing this.