#german train system

[everwhovian]

Guys... it is 2am right now and I am STRANDED in a big city 'cause NO TRAINS like... German Rail sucks in general but at night? Even worse... you would expect to have running trains in big cities at fucking central stations!! But no.... ugh...

Like our concert was over at 11pm, then we took the subway to the central station and surprise no trains... so now we've been waiting for the ONE train that brings us to the next big city but obviously there is a delay so instead of arriving at 1:40am the train hopefully arrives at 2:10am... with that in mind... we will be in the next city at 2:40am and our connection train arrives at 2:56am... so... if the first one gets even more delayed... 💀💀💀 (we would arrive in our home city at 3:25am)

IF that happens then we have to wait ANOTHER HOUR until 3:56am for the next train and THEN we would be in our home city at 04:25am

AND THEN WE STILL WOULDN'T BE HOME OMG...

[lueddegen]

Sure, ICEs are nice, but you gotta appreciate the reality-defying amounts of people that fit into standard regional trains every now and then.

[underthewingsofthblackeagle]

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[everwhovian]

"Dear passengers, our journey is delayed because there are folks doing acrobatics on the bridge. The police are on their way to bring the show to an end and catch the troublemakers."

– train announcement, Deutsche Bahn, Oct 2 2025

[everwhovian]

Signal failure? Check. Congested tracks? Check. Absolutely nothing moving? Check. Deutsche Bahn really out here serving the full experience today...

[everwhovian]

I hate German trains! I really do...

I just waited 95 minutes for my train to Bavaria because I’m visiting my best friends and we’re going to a concert tonight (Waterparks!). And now I’m cold, tired, and extremely pissed off 💀

My plan was to study for my upcoming exam during the trip, but I’m so riled up that I’ve just been doomscrolling on my phone instead...

Maybe I’ll write something. It’s kind of a tradition at this point to suffer through writing explicit scenes in public because apparently I enjoy torturing myself 😂😂 We’ll see.

For now I’ll probably just stalk AO3. I’m still obsessed with The Pitt, and I’ve also been reading some amazing Smallville fics over the last couple of days 👀

[everwhovian]

Today's theme: suffering...

I genuinely don’t know what was wrong with my brain this morning because I left the house an entire hour earlier than I needed to. For absolutely no reason. My thoughts were just sprinting around like 'where are my concert tickets, did I pack them, where is my bag, I need my lunch, oh god where are my keys,' and I just… walked out the door in pure panic mode

Then Deutsche Bahn said 'what if we personally ruined your life today' (they were determined to experience EVERY possible issue at once... They kept me stranded between two stations from 9:43 to 11:00 with no way out. I just LOVE public transport ❤️

And just when I thought it couldn’t get dumber, the train was so delayed they just cancelled it mid-railway and kicked us all out two stops after I got on. Peak comedy

I sent my professor a very aggressive train-bashing email. I hope she laughed

Somehow I made it to my mandatory seminar at 12:30 and didn’t get marked absent, so I count that as a victory

Now I am sitting here with a mock exam I am violently unprepared for, and after that I have my vampire seminar where I actually have to give a presentation. Today is bullying me personally

And then after all that, I have to leave the vampire seminar early so I can rush to Three Days Grace because at this point my day cannot get any more unhinged anyway

I am basically exhausted on a molecular level...

[revyn-moonfox]

Trying to drive on vacation with my youth-living-groupproject (don't know the proper englisch name, but in german it's Jugend-WG. Anyway...)

First, the train comes 1,5 hours to late. Then they tell us that all seat-reservations are cancelled because they have one Wagon less than planned. Also the AC is broken and it's 30°C

Also I got yelled at by a man who didn't want to accept that his reservation was cancelled, as if I had anything to do with that?! The audacity...

I'm having a great time /sarc