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yeah, that's wrong.

For example the ICE from Hamburg to Berlin tomorrow at 14:35 goes directly, not stopping in Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern or Brandenburg.

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Might have been worth mentioning in your existing reply above to the person who said that. I'm kind of wondering who to believe now: one the one hand there's the silliness of the rule that makes me inclined to think you must be right; on the other hand there is my experience living in germany and their love for rules and bureaucracy (whoever spawned the phrase 'german efficiency' must have been sarcastic).

Edit: ah I see you added an example. That settles it then, thanks!

Another one: I used to take the ICE Sprinter from Hamburg to Düsseldorf. It didn't stop in Bremen and Lower Saxony. Went directly from Hamburg to NRW.

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