Originally Posted by
mosburger
And as I do travel quite a lot with them when in Europe, you have conductors on all RE trains. But due to their workload they sometimes prefer to stay in their train office, IMHO.
It depends on the route. Some routes are equpped with TAV (technikbasierte Abfertigungsverfahren) and do not require a conductor.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technik...gungsverfahren