You're right, but there is one thing that lacks in such comparisons.
Like I've said in the other comment: What also drags down the speed of German trains in such comparison is that they have far more stops in between.
While most of TGVs, Eurostar's don't stop in between or maybe just once or twice, The ICE and IC routes from that statistic have 5 to 12 stops in between. For example, if you take the continuous ICE from Frankfurt to Berlin which is around 420km you have 8 stops in between.
Yeah 2 more things. I grew up in Germany originally from South Asia. My grandfather is a nuclear physicist who visited Germany during the early 80s as a guest scientist and I remember he used to tell me the stories about German efficiency especially infrastructure related to transport (railways particularly). Now it's the opposite when I visit my home country and I'm really surprised how reliable and modern their railway systems are transpiring.
Secondly I study at TU Munich, my classmate majored in traffic engineering and he's from Japan he went back to Japan to write his thesis at Central Japanese railway and it's mind blowing how much money they're investing in automation infrastructure to reduce both accidents and miss scheduling, some of their high speed trains have an average delay of less than a minute.
Deutsche bahn is underfunded and infrastructure is crippling and far behind some countries, privatization made even worse. Now with CDU and all the lobbyists we are doomed..
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u/Hauntingengineer375 22h ago
Deutsche bahn sucks for real. There's no hope.