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I've taken 16 trains in 5 countries while traveling through Europe this month. My ranking: (1) NS InterCity (Netherlands). Lots of seats, quiet, clean, level boarding, punctual. (My anecdotal experience!) (2) SBB InterCity (Switzerland). Quiet, punctual, clean, more crowded but enough seats. 🧵

Shane Carr

@sffc.bsky.social

(6) SNCF TER. One of these was pleasant, but my worst experience was Basel-Strausbourg which was overbooked, no elbow room, no level boarding. (7) DB ICE (Germany). Last place! Always late, always overbooked. Note: some Spanish trains are even worse than DB but I didn't go to Spain this month.

17/5/26, 5:14 pm0 reposts0 likes

Shark

@lunas.land

17 May

Yeah, the DB is quite bad... Yesterday I needed to call the DB Support since they cancelled my seat reservation for 2 out of my 4 trains while I still payed for it. The support agent just hang up while I was speaking 🫪