Just took a quick trip to Munich, and the funniest thing I learned is that German trains are late so often that Switzerland won't let them enter the country. Info: www.bluewin.ch/en/news/swit...

The slow trains (Regionalbahn) tend to be on time. The "quick" trains are late. Maybe Germans just tired of the "trains on time" thing that outsiders say about them. Also, privatization. In the UK they seem to have regrets about Thatcher-era privatizations.

It's almost as if Germany has been letting its railway system slowly deteriorate over decades to benefit its car industry

Yup, I’ve started taking the train from Geneva to Frankfurt and back and this has happened at the border near Basel… My cousins warned me about Deutsche Bahn, and they did not exaggerate 😔

Te all to Germans and you”ll learn quickly how negative they are about their railways.

Definitely not neutral when it comes to punctuality

🪁Could this punctuality incident affect the diplomacy between Germany and Switzerland, on what concerns the Schengen area?

I feel like everything I thought I knew about Germany just turned out to be a lie.