In Finland the national railway company "Valtion Rautatiet" is abbreviated "VR", which gets sometimes jokingly(?) opened as "Venaa Rauhassa" which can be roughly translated to "wait in peace"
Wtf! France is not that bad!! Would have though that it would have been way worse
Perhaps they don't count strikes
Italy should get better now that there is Giorgia /s
Me when my train was 67 minutes late... dont even aks... btw in sweden
Norway: Would you like some bus for train?
I appreciate the humor of not even including Poland.
I’m just a silly American here, but how does Luxembourg have long distance trains?
And even Switzerland is tiny compared to most states in the US. It’s only a little bigger than Maryland, which takes about two hours to pass through on the interstate (and has some of the worst traffic in the country near Washington DC).
I live in Luxembourg and I have the same question!
I suspect it is trains going outside of the country but it's funny to see nonetheless. I think most trains originate from Luxembourg (when travelling to other countries over anything that would be considered a long distance which I suspect gives them a scheduling advantage).
Yeah, way less stations for trains to arrive at late as well, which was actually my less facetious question, since I assumed the long distance trains would be leaving the country pretty quickly.
Regarding Switzerland:
From Zürich you can go to Hamburg, Venice, Paris, Budapest etc. without changing, so there are plenty of long distance connections that just end in Switzerland.
But we have a lot of intercity lines internally too. Some of the longest are:
But the most important are probably Geneva-Lausanne-Bern-Zürich and Basel-Zürich and Bern-Basel because those are our big economic centers. They are called intercity here as well.
Not sure if you count any of those from an American perspective.
I'm intrigued by what they class as a long distance train, are they counting domestic only services? I wonder if the size of the country plays into it as well as most of the top ones in that list are relatively small, so presumably less long distance routes, and they are presumably shorter routes as well so maybe less chances for delays.
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