Punctuality at Germany's crisis-hit railway slumps

About 52 percent of all intercity trains were on time, Deutsche Bahn (DB) confirmed to AFP, after the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper first reported the figures. That was down from almost 67 percent on-time arrivals in the same month last year and barely above the record-low 51.5 percent rate recorded for October. January is usually a good month for punctuality owing to a relative lack of maintenance and building work on the tracks. A Deutsche Bahn spokesman told AFP that a January cold snap in...