today on the train from stuttgart to zürich: shortly before zürich — just after the ICE disappears into the tunnel — the train stops: nothing unusual about that, it does that occasionally here…though, today it takes a rather long time to get going again…and in the end it doesn’t: not enough driving power to get the ICE up the steep incline towards stadelhofen station! the train manager announces that we’ll go backwards a bit to have more of a runway to gather enough speed so that the ICE train will make it up the hill (i’m not making this up, honestly!).
so, backwards to dietlikon s-bahn station it goes and once the train has the all clear for zürich main station, off it goes again: we charge for fort zürich! this time we make it! yee-haw!
p.s.: once we were in dietlikon, the SBB conductors started printing out coffee vouchers: nice touch that!
