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1718627440 34 minutes ago [-]
> Trains from Switzerland are more punctual than trains from Bavaria. If you are in the southwest and need to go north (Hamburg, Hannover, Berlin, Ruhrgebiet), the ICEs that originated in Zürich or Interlaken are noticeably more often on-time than the ones that came up through Munich. Why this is so I cannot fully prove. Given a choice, pick the Swiss-origin train. The same applies, more weakly, to trains originating in Austria.
Besides them being from Switzerland, that is actually pretty easy to explain: International trains have priority over national ones and as such are less likely to get delay assigned by the scheduling administration.
1718627440 31 minutes ago [-]
> Reserve, even when you think you do not need to. A few euros for a Sitzplatzreservierung is the cheapest insurance in this entire system. On a delay-day, your reservation is the difference between a four-hour journey at a table with power and a four-hour journey standing in a vestibule next to the toilet.
Except when it is really crowded, reservations are revoked.
usr1106 11 minutes ago [-]
On delay-day you won't be travelling on the train you booked. So the reservation will only help if things go reasonably well. Which depending on your itenary might be less frequently than desired. Yes, a reservation helps if you happen to be on the correct train, but many others are not. It all remains a big gamble, you never know...
Besides them being from Switzerland, that is actually pretty easy to explain: International trains have priority over national ones and as such are less likely to get delay assigned by the scheduling administration.
Except when it is really crowded, reservations are revoked.