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[-] Haaveilija@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

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"

[-] Kissaki@feddit.org 6 points 4 months ago

Does being early count as being punctual?

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[-] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 months ago

Me when my train was 67 minutes late... dont even aks... btw in sweden

[-] RVGamer06@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 months ago

Italy should get better now that there is Giorgia /s

[-] felykiosa@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 months ago

Wtf! France is not that bad!! Would have though that it would have been way worse

[-] jenesaisquoi@feddit.org 4 points 4 months ago

Perhaps they don't count strikes

[-] Kanda@reddthat.com 4 points 4 months ago

Norway: Would you like some bus for train?

[-] magikmw@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago

I appreciate the humor of not even including Poland.

[-] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 4 months ago

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).

[-] filtoid@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 months ago

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).

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[-] Technofrood@feddit.uk 3 points 4 months ago

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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