>>1247023>2. Austria (the far better Germany)>far betterYeah, no.
>>1247204 this certainly helps, but Austrias rail system has loads of issues.Take HSR:
There is none. The Salzburg-Vienna stretch is close, though, so that's good enough. But what about the rest?
I'm often on Salzburg-Graz and Vienna-Graz, and those are just terrible.
Takes forever to get anywhere. In the Ennstal, there are way too many stops for an Intercity, and yeah, Austrians have a weird perspective on what makes a hamlet a city, so I give them that, but still, the three stops Selzthal, Liezen and Stainach-Irdning in 15 minutes are just idiotic, especially when in Stainach, you have a connection to a regional train that ends/starts there, so you could easily extend that fucker, so that you just have to stop in Selztal and people change to that, or go there with that. 2-10 minutes more for the 10 people that use this stops, but 10 saved for the 100 folks in the train for the long distance.
And a lot of it is single track with no indication of that changing.
And all of it has narrow curves, but there's neither tunnel projects, nor a tilting train in sight.
And Graz Vienna?
You sit in the railjet, the fastest non-EMU train there is (makes 250kph, I think) and it crawls over the Semering and along the Mur and Mürz valleys at 50kph. Though they are now building a tunnel, after years and years of delays.
And the railjet itself looks absolutely fantastic (seriously, one of the best looking (passenger) trains right now), but the seats are terrible.
But the 50% off "vorteilscard" is cheap, though.
Now, I'm not saying it's bad, but it could be so much better.
