for we have only one big Railroad company in germany, there is no need to invent funny nicks. But the following happening describes our "Deutsche Bahn" perfectly...

My mother was asking a clerk for a connection in a small country station. When she heard she had only ten minutes to get the express train when arriving in bremen, she protested: the train was normally five minutes late when arriving in bremen, that would leave her not enough time to reach the express. with disguise the clerk stated: "Madam, the train from hamburg to bremen comes hardly ever too late!" But he had to give in one minute later, for all the other waiting passengers overheard this and broke out in terrific laughter at once...

But "Deutsche Bahn" has found a perfect strategy to avoid further delays... they have made every train category from suburb trains to long distance trains "Express" now, from "city express" to "Inter City Express".