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Old Sep 21, 2019, 10:12 am
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San Gottardo
 
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Originally Posted by mlin32
I'm reading these SNCF comments with envy. After all, I live across the frontier and deal with the horreur that is Deutsche Bahn. Francfort - Paris/Est on the TGV is more reliable, cheaper, and faster than a lot of domestic German services covering less distance.
Be careful what you wish for. Yep, the reliability of Deutsche Bahn is a sad shadow of its former self, and the German high speed network a sad joke.

However, what it does have is frequent connections to airport railway stations. Frankfurt Airport has between three and six connections each hour to Cologne (>1 hour) and beyond (Dusseldorf), two to Mannheim-Stuttgart (1H15), to Freiburg, to Hannover (2H50, like Rennes). Try number of trains at CDG Airport, there are two or three per hour, to any destination.

So, for SNCF, what's the point of those fast trains if getting from A to B is so difficult because there are no trains?
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