[Ipg-smz] The train from hell?

[Kishore Jethanandani]

<<He looked at me sternly and with a small smile said, “On the Deutsche
Bahn, we are sometimes a little late. We are **never** early.” >>😂 If that
is true for German trains, how does anyone expect them to do any better
anywhere else.

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On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 4:03 PM Dan Rosenbaum via Ipg-smz <
ipg-smz at netpress.org> wrote:

> A couple of years ago, my family and I took the German express train from
> Frankfurt to Dusseldorf. Sort of. Eventually.
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> Frankfurt is a big terminus station, so all the tracks end in blocks and
> you can’t tell which direction they’ll go when they get back to the trunk.
> And, of course, all the signage and announcements are in German.
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> The Dusseldorf train was to leave at, let’s say, 8:15 on Track 8.  At
> 8:12, a train pulls in on Track 8. We get on, with all our luggage, make
> our way through a crowded train to find our reserved seats which didn’t
> have our names on the display above the seats but what the hell. Train
> leaves, and the family pulls out their phones to watch our progress on
> Google Maps.
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> Except we’re not going north to Dusseldorf. We’re going south toward
> Munich. On an express.
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> So I find a conductor, whose English is pretty not-bad. He understands the
> issue, pulls out his Android pad with schedules and figures out quickly how
> to reroute us and reissues the tickets.
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> But he asked, “why did you get on the wrong train?” I told him, we were
> trying to get on the northbound 8:15 and, given the reliability of European
> train, I thought it was running a few minutes early. He looked at me
> sternly and with a small smile said, “On the Deutsche Bahn, we are
> sometimes a little late. We are **never** early.”
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> *From: *Ipg-smz <ipg-smz-bounces at netpress.org> on behalf of Dennisf63 via
> Ipg-smz <ipg-smz at netpress.org>
> *Reply-To: *<dennisf63 at wildblue.net>, <ipg-smz at netpress.org>
> *Date: *Tuesday, October 29, 2019 at 4:16 PM
> *To: *<ipg-smz at netpress.org>
> *Cc: *Dennisf63 <dennisf63 at wildblue.net>
> *Subject: *Re: [Ipg-smz] The train from hell?
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> Departed twenty seconds EARLY! For shame!
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> On 10/29/2019 03:11 PM, Andy Patrizio via Ipg-smz wrote:
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> Meanwhile, in Japan…
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> https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-42009839
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> *From:* Ipg-smz [mailto:ipg-smz-bounces at netpress.org
> <ipg-smz-bounces at netpress.org>] *On Behalf Of *David Needle via Ipg-smz
> *Sent:* Tuesday, October 29, 2019 10:52 AM
> *To:* ipg-smz at netpress.org
> *Cc:* David Needle
> *Subject:* [Ipg-smz] The train from hell?
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> My wife just emailed me this from her office in Palo Alto:
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> very quiet here -- Caltrain horror stories from the SF commuters -- the
> train doors wouldn't open when they stopped in Palo Alto! same thing in
> Mountain View!  people were freaking out. Finally got off the train in
> Santa Clara or something and took an uber to work -- $45 and 2.5 hours...
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> --
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