>>1747498Sometimes delays can occur as a result of police activity, a "medical emergency", breakdowns or something else unexpected that can't really be feasibly prevented.
And sometimes, you get other issues like signal failures, delays as a result of cross-border services (locomotive changes and stuff).
And then you'll also have other disruption that can be sort of predicted, like engineering works that change schedules, or add something that can't really be done right (temporary token/pilotman blocks, if a dual track section is reduced to single track operations for track relaying/signalling replacements).
>>1747524Oh yeah, people and passengers are dumb.
It gets bad when you add tourists, and all the announcements made aren't in English.
And imagine if the staff themselves aren't terribly good at talking in English with tourists?
>>1747527Lmao. I'm from Ireland...
I can only say that the most clueless tourists are Americans and Israelis.
One time, I came across someone sitting in my reserved seat, and when I tried to explain in German that I had a seat reservation and I showed my confirmation, I just got this blank stare, and a "sorry what".
I explained again in English, and it got a lot less tense...
Israelis act as if they've never seen a train system before.
Americans act as if everyone speaks English, and just marvel at "these trains just go everywhere!"
Brits don't like going to Germany - the ones who do are self-hating Brits who apologise for brexit, and keep talking about their non-British ancestors.
