Vienna’s spotless Tube system puts the UK’s public transport to shame

The contrast smacks me in the face like a chug of diesel fumes (Picture: Sarah Bishop)

It hit me on the way to a lunch date, somewhere between Karlsplatz and Stephansplatz, in the central first district of Vienna.

This is brilliant.

That quiet, almost smug realisation that public transport in the Austrian capital is in a completely different league to anything in the UK.

The U-Bahn– Vienna’s underground train system – slid into the station, right on time, and not a single person was huffing about delays.

I remember thinking, ‘If this were ...