To Germany now, where contrary to cliche, trains do not always run on time, at least not anymore. After decades of neglect, the government has announced a 100-billion-euro investment into the national ...

This year, Germany is celebrating the historic occasion on 7 December 1835 when the Adler locomotive first chugged its way along 7.5 kilometres of track from Nuremberg to Fürth. 175 years on, numerous ...