 How I survived the Deutsche Bahn (long)
"Deeply Filled Mortician" <deepfreudmoors@eITmISaACTUALLYiREAL!l.nu> skrev i
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> Let is be knownst that on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 14:54:46 +0100, Erick T.
> Barkhuis <erick.use-net@ardane.c-o-m> writted:
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>>Maybe, because the passengers weren't in too good a mood.
>>On the other hand, if carriages are packed, there is hardly a way a
>>conductor could perform his duties decently, right?
>
> If a train is very late in Italy, you're unlikely to have your ticket
> checked. Naturally every second person will want to express their
> dissatifcation!
> --
Possibly the same everywhere, they're trying to be invisible more or less.
But I do remember a trip from Vienna to Germany. Due to an accident the EC
train was around 3h late, it was routed over a dieselhauled line and no
service was possible in the dining car. In Passau (borderstation) the
loudspeakers announced that we had to wait another hour because no
locomotive was available.
When the conductor arrived he started immediately with collecting the IC/EC
"zuschlag", the Germans made some comments about the necessity of that but
rules are rules obviously. I was on Interrail and not in hurry and stayed
over night in Nürnberg.
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