Originally Posted by
linglingfool
In fact, I recall stumbling onto a 5AM train toward Frankfurt from Mannheim on a Sunday many years ago, and even at that hour was awoken from my slumber by the conductor asking for my ticket.
Originally Posted by
offerendum
At "Regionalbahnen" the quot is around 70 %, at S-Bahnen itīs very rarely.
Originally Posted by
Cargojon
Nope, never, not once. S-Bahn, IC, ICE, local rail. Never been checked.
I've travelled about 1000km on DB services my ticket has so far only been checked twice: once on an IC out of Berlin, and once on the S-Bahn from Dresden Airport at midnight. (I'm glad that I was first off the plane that time, because I had 30 seconds to buy my ticket; if I was a few rows back I would have risked not buying a ticket and if I was even further back, I would have missed the last train.)
In Berlin this summer my ticket was checked on the U-Bahn about 5 times within 3 hours, and each time several people were found to be ticketless.