I can't drive, I hate buses so I always take the train. Well to be honest trains in the UK aren't that great either... never seem to be on time when you need them and not really that fast either. In fact getting from dundee to london takes almost 7 hours, can't we just have something like the TGV? One of the few trains that actually work well that I can think of has to be the ICE in Germany. The new version of the ICE train they made designed by the german industrial designer Alexander Neumeister (also then man behind the 500 series Shinkansen for JR in Japan). He made quite a radial departure from ordinary train design, its one of the first time that I actually would say a train looks cool. Made by Siemens and now also exported to Spain, Russia and China. It goes up to 320kph, Frankfurt to Cologne in 1 hour, pretty damn fast. But best part is that if you sit in the front, the only thing separating you and the driver is a piece of glass. When running at high speed everything is controlled by computer. So me and my friend was just sitting there looking at the front while the driver is having a coffee chatting with some other passenger, this is as good as it get for a train driver i guess.

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