On: Germany's terrible trains are no joke for a nation...

[Beldin]

The Netherlands does cargo on rail just fine and has the busiest network in EU.

[layer8 → Beldin]

This is the Dutch rail network: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Ra...

And this is the German rail network: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/08/Bahnstre...

Germany has almost 14 times as many rail stations as the Netherlands, and over ten times as many rail kilometres.

[Moldoteck → layer8]

So why not just copy NL infra 14 times across Germany? If every subpart of Germany has same quality as NL, general quality will still improve

[layer8 → Moldoteck]

Because those 14 parts would be highly interconnected with each other. You couldn’t actually treat them as 14 separate parts. They aren’t compartmentalized like different countries’ networks are.

This is a bit similar to how a 14-core processor doesn’t give you 14 times the performance of a single core if the cores have to communicate and coordinate with each other.

[_19qg → Beldin]

Netherlands has just two neighbour countries and 1/10 of the network. Most of its rail cargo goes into and through Germany.