WLike the young, like the old: the Interrail ticket, once intended as a publicity stunt, has been the door opener to Europe for 50 years. While it used to be teens and twenty-somethings who spent countless nights in poorly sprung train compartments armed with backpacks and sleeping bags, now more and more best agers are … Read more
The ICE as an office The bandwidth in the long-distance trains of Deutsche Bahn is to be expanded. To do this, the state-owned company wants to modify the windows of the ICEs. (Foto: picture alliance/dpa) Frankfurt Deutsche Bahn wants to convert its existing ICE fleet to such an extent that better mobile phone reception and higher … Read more
In freight traffic, the railways are not in the 21st century, rather they are stuck in the 19th century. The trains are coupled as in the days of the Kaiser, and that is hard work: shunting workers have to place the 20-kilogram bracket of one wagon on the hook of the next wagon, tighten the … Read more
Volker Wissing is in a hurry. Not really, that’s not his nature at all. Outwardly, he always seems calm, almost serene. Pragmatic. Sober. The new Federal Minister for Digital Affairs and Transport is in a hurry in a figurative sense because he knows that he has taken over an area of responsibility that needs a … Read more