How come the train cancellations or delays of the Breisgau S-Bahn? A technology expert from Deutsche Bahn explains why there are currently problems – and how it can be improved.
“Coupling failure”: This is the cause the railway often cites when the electric trains of the Breisgau S-Bahn were not on time or have completely failed. But why is coupling so difficult and are there other problems that are responsible for train failures? Martin Selig is responsible for the whole of Baden-Wrttemberg as a technical expert at Deutsche Bahn. He was now available to answer questions at Freiburg Central Station. The ambitious original concept should be targeted again from December.
“From my point of view, what is required here is very demanding. If I take a Bundesliga table for comparison, then the track plays for the Champions League places in terms of complexity,” said Selig with regard to the East-West Connection of the Breisgau S-Bahn between Kaiserstuhl and the Black Forest.
Ministry of Transport for Breisgau-S-Bahn: “That is unacceptable”
Electric trains from the manufacturer Alstom should be cleverly coupled and decoupled on the route so that passengers can stay seated for a long time and hardly have to change trains. This is what the dream looked like. But in everyday life there was a huge problem at the beginning and in the end it was still so bad that the political pressure on land and rail …
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