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Why Swiss trains leave on the exact minute

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Trains in Switzerland are so unfathomably punctual that you can literally set your expensive watch by them. If a train is scheduled to leave at precisely 10:03, it will roll out of the station while you are still desperately sprinting down the platform at 10:04.

Why Swiss trains leave on the exact minute
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