Dear Berliner Zeitung
Tuesday, January 22. 2008
I was delighted to read your article about Deutsche Bahn buying up various railway companies in the UK, it gives one a small ray of hope for future rail journeys through parts of Albion.
However, I was somewhat concerned about the caption in the picture you used with the article:
which reads "Einfahrt in den Bahnhof Shropshire in Wales" (train entering Shropshire Station in Wales).
What the fuck, precisely, do you put in your subeditors' drinks? Would you seriously consider writing a caption like "Einfahrt in den Bahnhof Niederbayern in Thüringen"? If so, please let me know and I will cancel my subscription forthwith. (Especially as the photo shows a very long modern electric train running on what appears to be a 4-track main line: I'm not terribly familiar with Shropshire's railways, but if they're anything like those in the neighbouring county of Herefordshire, two-car diesel units running on tracks the former Deutsche Reichsbahn would have been ashamed of are far more probable.)
Thankyou.
However, I was somewhat concerned about the caption in the picture you used with the article:
which reads "Einfahrt in den Bahnhof Shropshire in Wales" (train entering Shropshire Station in Wales).
What the fuck, precisely, do you put in your subeditors' drinks? Would you seriously consider writing a caption like "Einfahrt in den Bahnhof Niederbayern in Thüringen"? If so, please let me know and I will cancel my subscription forthwith. (Especially as the photo shows a very long modern electric train running on what appears to be a 4-track main line: I'm not terribly familiar with Shropshire's railways, but if they're anything like those in the neighbouring county of Herefordshire, two-car diesel units running on tracks the former Deutsche Reichsbahn would have been ashamed of are far more probable.)
Thankyou.
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I too an delighted that DB has "arrived" in the UK.. However much they are criticised here, they still provide a far better level of service than that currently available in the UK.
Although I fear not all of your correspondents agree with me on that point :o(
http://karlmarxstrasse.blogsport.de/2008/01/21/london-overground-bought-by-deutsche-bahn/
Although I fear not all of your correspondents agree with me on that point :o(
http://karlmarxstrasse.blogsport.de/2008/01/21/london-overground-bought-by-deutsche-bahn/
With the purchase of the Chiltern line (when I was using it a few years ago, it was actually quite good), maybe DB is looking at realising that Great Central freight route thingy in the long term?
I agree that the level of service is much better here. Why? Because it's not (properly) privatised (yet). I don't expect DB will offer a great improvement in Britain. Afterall, NS, the Dutch railways, who unsuccessfully bid for the same company, already run a load of stuff in Liverpool, and I haven't read any "please let the Dutch run everything, they're so great" articles. I am aware that where Arriva run things though (in Bavaria) they are known for being pretty shit, probably a bit better than what they run in Wales though.
I suspect there's some curse hanging over the British railway system. They could probably let the Japanese loose on it, and it'd still suck.
Ye gods! Shropshire in Wales? It's enough to cause Owen Glyndower to rise from his grave...
And as for the train in the pic....Shropshire is no better than Herefordshire and Mid Wales even worse - even if you could find the railway line. There is the MidWales line which goes from Swansea to Shrewsbury which stops at Llandrindod Wells and other small places. I can even use my new free BUS ticket on it, so desperate are they for passengers. (But that;'s probably because there aren't a lot of buses either.)
And as for the train in the pic....Shropshire is no better than Herefordshire and Mid Wales even worse - even if you could find the railway line. There is the MidWales line which goes from Swansea to Shrewsbury which stops at Llandrindod Wells and other small places. I can even use my new free BUS ticket on it, so desperate are they for passengers. (But that;'s probably because there aren't a lot of buses either.)
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