I planned a trip from Helsinki, Finland to Ajaccio, Corsica and back between 2.-8. December 2026.
After October 20th, DB’s timetable service announced that the Stockholm–Hamburg connection was no longer available; instead, train 307 would terminate in Lund, Sweden, from where one could only continue using local trains. Since I needed to be in Hamburg by 10:00 PM, I immediately had to look for alternatives. The only way to reach Hamburg Central Station on time was to buy a ticket for a FlixBus route—Helsinki–Tallinn–Warsaw–Berlin–Hamburg—which cost me nearly 170 euros. However, yesterday, DB’s timetable service announced that everything is actually running as normal: train 307 from Stockholm to Hamburg is operating as planned and is scheduled to arrive at 9:57 PM. The only lesson I’ve learned from this is that you can’t rely on anything—and that this will also be my final Interrail trip, as I simply cannot afford this kind of experience.
