Editor’s Comment ‘SORRY, not sorry’ seems to be the attitude of DB Fernverkehr (DBFV), the InterCity arm of Germany’s incumbent operator Deutsche Bahn, when it comes to chronic timekeeping issues that have persisted now for at least a couple of decades. Our view, based on journeys to/from InnoTrans in Berlin in September (see feature, p78) is that DBFV can’t run trains to time for toffee.
The worst thing is that the operator simply doesn’t seem that bothered. On two long-distance legs with DBFV, Rail Express was delayed, in one case missing an hourly connection, resulting in a late night wait on a cold platform. There was no mention of compensation, though Chris Milner, contributing editor to our sister title The Railway Magazine, who also suffered delays on a different service,…