Before starting my record attempt between Kemijärvi, Finland and Lagos, Portugal, people told me over and over it would break down in Germany. So much so that I even tried to re-but (pre-but?) some of the likely critique.
Now, having made the trip, and none of the total
For the past 7 years using DB. I can probably count on one hand if I was delayed more then 2 hours.
However being delayed between 30 mins to 1 hour is extremely common. Often half my trips.
For every important trips, we do go the night before and then stay local.
Worst I’ve been delayed was 5 hours, that’s because a signal between Frankfurt and Köln failed
On the other hand, the amount of times I was delayed by car because of traffic is much higher… but nobody complains about that
On how many of those trips did you have to switch trains?
I used to take only regional trains due to the D ticket.
For long distance it’s usually 2 ICE trains max.
Now it’s mostly just 1 train with regionals on each side