The first direct high-speed train service between both cities will be running from December, according to Deutsche Bahn. It will offer a journey without transfers, with stops in Frankfurt, Strasbourg and Karlsruhe.
8 hours in theory. Let’s not forget it has to cross a large part of Germany. I’m sure Deutsche Bahn will work its magic and suddenly it’s 16 hours with four unplanned stops and five hours of uncertainty as to whether you will ever arrive at all.
There’s also the very muddled announcement that to make it you’ll need to change trains at some small town.
Or, they just decide to not stop at your station, so you get to hop off past your station and ride a train back the way you came.
All that said, it’s still a miracle from God compared to the crap we have in the US.
Tell me about it. I was checking to see if was faster to go by train to the inland empire from Orange county. It takes the train longer than it would take me to go in car and be in traffic the whole way. I shit you not on this. I was like how? What fuckin traffic does a train have to be 2 behind a car in traffic?
The Amtrak system in the US shares rail, and is low priority, than freight trains. Basically, passenger rail has always been a side business for the train companies the US. It is subsidized and used as a bribe by the federal government to even try to keep a passenger rail service alive.
That means our trains are often kept as slow speeds to stay behind freight trains, and will be stopped to wait for freight trains if some is off schedule. The routes are also mostly only rated for 60mph speeds, so even at full speed you’re barely keeping up with cars on the highway, and then you add in stops at every podunk town that slows it down even more.
Until the US invests in a separate passenger rail network that can support consistent speed and schedules, it will remain on par with similarly under developed nations for rail service.
with stops in Frankfurt, Strasbourg and Karlsruhe.
Knowing DB, probably in that order.
8 hours is incredibly fast to lay that much track.
7 hours of that spent in germany due to terrible infrastructure. On a good day
With the DB involved, walking might be the quicker option. And the more reliable one.
