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Railway chaos: the blockade involving Leipzig and Erfurt has been lifted and there are nonetheless delays!
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A closure of the Deutsche Bahn route among Erfurt and Leipzig or Halle (Saale) is presently producing chaos
Leipzig / Halle (Saale) / Erfurt – Vacationers should be patient on Thursday in Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia! A closing of the path German teach amongst Erfurt and Leipzig and Halle (Saale) are at present wreaking havoc.
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Vacationers utilizing Deutsche Bahn trains have to have to be primarily individual on Thursday: the route in between Erfurt and Leipzig / Halle is at present shut. © Soeren Stache / dpa-Zentralbild / dpa
A tweet from the corporation induced confusion between the train passengers at midday. As a consequence, the railway line amongst Leipzig / Halle and Erfurt was closed in both instructions for repairs.
Long-distance trains were being apparently ready in suitable stations, and detours were only probable in isolated instances.
Interviewed by TAG24, Bahn spokesman Jörg Bönisch described that a technical fault experienced occurred in the Finne tunnel and the Osterberg tunnel in close proximity to the border between Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia in the early morning. This impacted the tunnel crisis phone.
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Police operation at Frankfurt central station: hrs of hold off in rail targeted traffic
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While the performs had been done around 1:45 pm, there are still constraints in both instructions.
In the meantime, Erfurt station has not been approached at all.
All extensive-length trains that have currently entered the primary station of the Thuringian capital “have to wait around and see where we can consider them,” reported the spokesman for the German information company.
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Upon completion of the functions, the Erfurt major station will be introduced. Nevertheless, the problem will possible only normalize in the night several hours, as Bönisch announced in the afternoon.
The restrictions apply to both equally community and extensive-distance targeted visitors. According to details from TAG24, there was speak of delays of about 3 hrs.
Because the route in between Erfurt and Weimar is also created independently of this, the route experienced to be diverted through the town of Jena, which was cumbersome in some situations.
Original information of Aug 4 at 1:20 pm, previous up to date at 2:23 pm
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