A proper simulator would cancel most of the trains whenever the weather changes. Dutch trains fail whenever:
* There's leaves on the rails
* It snows
* It's too cold
* It's too hot
* rand(1, 10) > 7
On top of that, there's protests and strikes.
* There's leaves on the rails
* It snows
* It's too cold
* It's too hot
* rand(1, 10) > 7
On top of that, there's protests and strikes.
To recalibrate your expectations I wholeheartedly recommend taking a train ride from somewhere in Germany to anywhere else in Germany.
I was supposed to arrive around 22h at my destination.
I guess I should be happy I arrived at all, and wasn't left stranded on a random train station until yearly today.
Yes, delays are annoying and there are things the train companies can do better, but our system is most of all reliable enough and we are doing just fine.
It turns out that if you grind wet leaves it creates a lubricant.
Lubricating the tracks is kind of an issue if you want to stop a 80 ton train