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I was warned about the view on this train, or rather the lack of one. The trip to Berlin is nothing but uneventful, the scenery a never-ending pan-flat landscape of rolling cabbage fields, clumps of homes, the odd farmhouse and the odd big town, Aachen, Koln, und Hannover. There was another big town en route but I forget its name, sorry , besides, you’ll never go there.

Only a few minutes late, we pull into Berlin Hauptbahnhof, the new gleaming, steel and glass central station which would look more at home in Canary Wharf. As with all new railway stations, it is part shopping arcade, part terminus, part soulless exchange for people and their wheelie suitcases.

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