I'll never understand DBahn - Their app sends the most terrifying messages eg:
(what this turns out to mean is that they substituted rolling stock and changed the train number for part of the journey)
My confusion is because in the UK we refer to trains by their time, and destination - adding the local station if required to disambiguate.
e.g:
"The 1905 to Glasgow (from Euston)"
In Germany by contrast this is the "ICE 572 - to Berlin."
@steely_glint I do appreciate date and train number as a means to unambiguously refer to a given train. Especially for short intra-city routes, specifying the final stop can be confusing as you then disambiguate by some other smaller train station name that only locals are familiar with.
However, the DB IT systems are very broken and so are their processes. The app does not even attempt to be helpful if anything whatsoever diverges from the plan... 🫤
@lschuermann That's what threw me - the app does sometimes offer 'current alternatives' when you are likely to miss a connection or a train terminates at an earlier station than expected (both of which happened to me on Weds).
I think part of the problem is translation - "journey cancelled" != "your journey is cancelled" it's the train's journey that has been canceled :-) . I suspect that in German the distinction is clearer.
@lschuermann And to be fair - when I asked the DB staff what I should do, they correctly told me that there would be a train, on the same platform at the same time, to the same destination - just with a different number.
Add comment