Question that I should have asked a long time ago
Last year, I travelled on a night train from Germany to Denmark
The service was operated by Denmark's railway company but I was purchasing the ticket from DB
On the day I travelled, apparently due to mechanical problem, they sent a shorter train than planned for the journey, and thus I lose my reserved first class seat because of it.
Could I get a partial refund from DB because of it? I asked the Denmark rail company and they said the matter should be handles by DB who sell the ticket to me but I haven't figured how should I contact DB for this matter.
>>1552114Traditionally, Japanese railway company ownership have two types, "National" and "Private". "National" mean the national rail network owned and managed by National government Ministry of Railway before the war, which become JNR after the war, and is now privatized as JR although some JR companies are still fully owned by Japanese government now.
Metro doesn't really fit into this classification, but as they are not Nationally managed and is not part of the JNR network, they will be put toward the sode of private when one is charting them.
But they aren't really private, recently there are discussions and moves to privatize the subway system of various Japanese cities. The name of "Toei" literally mean "Metropolis-operated", as oppose to "Min'ei" "Privately operated".
Ans also recently, there is another new type of railway company aside from National and Private, that's called "Third Sector". It refer to a type of public-private joint-ownership of railway, usually participated by local government along the line and also invested by major businesses in the area, to either construct a rail route that no one else would build or to continue operating a rail route that JR and others find financially unsustainable and want to abandon
