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Thank you!

Except on the tracks without electrification that those trains were meant to operate on.

That's the one! 55€ is certainly a big price, even if the trip is gorgeous

@@TFTSB thanks, I asked for a friend, because that kind of rookie mistake would never happen to an experienced hiker like me😄

This footage is literally 13 years old

Teacher handed your tests back face down, didn't she?

Ikke meg!

Hva du snakker norsk

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How the hell did you hear the letter s?

@TFTSB that is how I write it how I would say it when I would tell you how to pronounce Zug

It should be more helpful to say that in German "z" at the beginning of a word is pronounced like "tz".

@@TFTSB Maybe you didn’t know, but the z is pronounced like ‘ts’ in German. In German the s has the pronunciation of both English s and z.

This was a gift from a friend haha! Still in north Lower Saxony here

It was a joke about the current state of the DB. // Es war ein Witz über den aktuellen traurigen Zustand der DB.

In regional transport, there are a lot of competitors and DB is still not good.

@ I‘m talking about equal competition. In Germany DB is the only company that has a „Verwaltungsauftrag“. It’s not a free market. Even while DB can be and get forced to open the lines for competition, they still set the framework. DB don’t have any real competition that’s threatening their Marktmacht. This might change anytime close because even while they commonly known fa…modify their performance reviews (f.e. delay of less than 7 minutes is no delay, cancelling a train is no delay etc.), they still repeatedly fail the requirements. So Bundesnetzagentur is thinking about to hand over the Verwaltungsauftrag to someone else, but till now there is nobody else considered as capable to fulfill the requirements. Companies who where able to force DB to hand them down some regional lines that DB doesn’t consider as lucrative enough to do it on their own while being prioritised less than Fernverkehr is no competition. The only competition in sight that seems to be able to grow big enough within the next years seems to be Train Line - but like everyone can look it up within seconds: they’re still not that big of a deal as DB so far. Competition small as ants compared to the big Competitor is no threat and therefore no real competition. At the moment we would’ve to split the Verwaltungsauftrag into multiple parts if we wanted to give it to someone else than DB, because all competitors are only strong in „small“ regions or certain routes. We don’t have any other company that’s strong through the entire Nation. Like what power has the Nordwestbahn in Bavaria?

competition just means that it's a market economy, not that the quality of the company will be better. For the quality to be good, there needs to be a decentralized planned economy and the public transit company completely collectivized so that the necessary works on the infrastructure etc can be accomplished in a short time

@inspace9609 just stop! You‘re not forcing a discussion on me wether or not you knowing better than me what I wanted to say! I’m the only reliable source on the meaning of my message. Period. (Ohh I hate YT comment section)

I highly doubt that’s the case. I know they always claim that to be, but I believe the actual main reason are the rules of shared maintenance. DB is only supposed to pay for maintenance till a certain level of decay. When the condition of the infrastructure drops below a certain point it becomes the responsibility of either die Bundesnetzagentur or the local community. Therefore at places where DB doesn’t loose money to bad railway conditions it’s cheaper for DB to skip maintenance till the infrastructure is almost totally destroyed and let someone else pay for maintenance instead of you know: keeping it in good conditions.

@@satrawa that too. But there is a phenomenon in Germany that building things just stalls, there’s plenty of projects where it stalls at locals filing legal action and plenty of projects stalling due to a lack of budget, but since you can’t take from project a to build project b, both projects stall. Add the fact that DB has an incentive to let the (overloaded) infrastructure they have decay, and everything is falling apart while no relief gets built. In particular, projects like adding capacity from Hamburg towards Hannover stalling because of court fights while the renovations are scheduled to stall due to budget constraints. And the Rheintalbahn (Offenburg - Basel) has basically had the wheel of fortune for excuses , currently being 40 years after the original finish date and still nowhere close to done

@ you leave out the main point: there is no such rule that prohibits an company to take OWN money from project A and spend it in Project B. DB is free to spend their money like everyone else. What they can’t do is to take Förderungen that are mend to spend on Project A and put it in Project B. BECAUSE ITS NOT THEIR MONEY. Sometimes it’s required to hand out savings into a trust fund to receive a certain Förderung. That money is blocked, too. BUT it’s DBs decision wich Förderungen they apply to. It’s their decision what projects they want to do and it’s their decision to not drop a certain Förderung to be able to spend their money somewhere where it’s needed more. DB isn’t being forced to apply to everything they can get even when that means to risk crucial but easy to prevent damage on the infra structure, what causes a huge blow up in costs just to save some percentages of Selbstbeteiligung. It’s DBs own decision to bind their resources into trust funds because it’s a more secure way to save taxes instead of relying on contractors sending out bills at the right time. I don’t say that to blame them. They’re a company, it’s their job to make money. But I hate it when they’re trying to gaslight „me“ for their own decisions. If they would tell me „yeah we know this has to be fixed, but we need the money in this trustfund because that saves us a sum of money bigger than you’re able to imagine“ I would be „ohh ok, seems legit“. But they’re twisting a „we want more money paid by taxes“ into an „the cruel government limits our freedom (by having requirements for getting free money“. They’re literally telling us we have to suffer of bad service and high prices because they can’t do their job properly because we have rules that prevent them of robbing us.

They should operate Amtrak

@nolantherailfan5048 calm down, they're not wizards

There actually are 2 "Advanced Train Lab". And another preserved TD is in the DB museum in Koblenz. The last 3 in existance.