>>1283052>Which parts of the country did you visit?I lived around the Berlin area for 9 months.
The S-Bahn Berlin was a mixed bag, since the newer stock did have fabric seats, but the older, pre-unification stock did not. Depending on the line, the type of S-Bahn train will affect this.
DB Regio's Doppelstock trains have a weird mix. On the lower deck, seats are typically fabric, but the top deck has mostly faux-leather seats. ODEG had fabric seats on everything. I did once take a train which ODEG leased from ALEX, and that had faux-leather.
U-Bahn Berlin had nothing but vinyl seats.
I visited Hamburg, and the S-Bahn was similarly dependent on the age of the train. Older trains had plastic seats while newer trains had fabric. The U-Bahn was again, dependent on train age. Older trains had vinyl seats, while newer trains had fabric seats.
The Stadtbahn Düsseldorf was yet another example of the older (high floor) stock having plastic seats and the newer (low floor) stock having fabric seats.
The Stadtbahn Bielefeld was yet again dependent on the age of the stock, but since they're operating 80% of their services on the newer trains, fabric seemed standard.
I can't remember clearly what the trams of Dresden, Leipzig and Halle were like, but what I can say is that Berlin trams have fabric seats on all of the Flexity trams. I think I've really only seen like a handful of older trams in Berlin. Preserved trams have either wooden or plastic seats, but they don't count. Potsdam basically only has modern trams now, and they were fabric.
