Related <i>More and more German trains are not allowed to enter Switzerland</i> (154 points, 9 months ago, 297 comments) <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41189834">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41189834</a>
I'll never forget the day when the DB went on strike, and Swiss trains crossed the border to pick up passengers from Frankfurt.<p>Smoothest, quietest, roomiest train I've ever been in. Even the aesthetics were calming, with nice wide windows.<p>No random stairs or narrow corridors, no garish yellow or red colours, no speakers or beeping doors yelling at top volume.
I am writing this while currently sitting in a DB train that hasn't moved in 1 hour and 35 minutes due to another DB train having broken down on the rails.<p>Earlier this week, I was in the train that broke down. That delayed me 2 hours and 45 minutes.<p>The weekend before that I took 5x DB trains, where each and every one of them got delayed by 25-35 minutes.<p>I am now at a point where in the future I will only fly direct to destinations inside Germany.