Railway chaos in northern Germany – Bahn: it was sabotage – Lower Saxony – News in brief

One huge technical disruption has the entire Saturday morning rail traffic in Northern Germany paralyzed. regional trains And long distance he stood completely still, the travelers in front of the big ones challenges.

Now it’s clear: according to Deutsche Bahn, large-scale breakdowns are due to sabotage. “Because of Sabotage on cables essential for rail traffic, Deutsche Bahn had to stop rail traffic in the north for almost three hours this morning, “said a spokesman for the German news agency in Berlin on Saturday. The security authorities had started the investigation .

Rail traffic resumed from 10:30 am

Around 10:30 am, Deutsche Bahn said: Disturbance Fixed. However, it may still be closed during the day limitations to come. Concrete details on the cause were not yet available – it was rumored to be a malfunction Zugfunk “GSM-R” is the reason. A spokesman for the railways said: “It is used for communication between the control centers that control rail traffic and trains and is therefore an indispensable part of regular rail traffic.”

Countless travelers had previously been stranded at train stations because all long-distance traffic and some regional traffic had been cut off in much of northern Germany. Bremen, Hamburg, Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein were affected, Deutsche Bahn wrote on Twitter.

The company advises travelers traveling between Berlin and North Rhine-Westphalia and between Berlin and Baden-Württemberg or Switzerland to use connections via Erfurt and Frankfurt am Main.

Regional trains in the Braunschweig-Wolfsburg region are back in operation

In the Braunschweig-Wolfsburg region the situation is gradually easing. However, regional rail operators announce that the backward trains continue to close delays And train cancellations You can come.

Eintracht Braunschweig vs St. Pauli: away fans had to reschedule

The situation also required flexibility from football fans. Before the Eintracht Braunschweig home game against St. Pauli, all trains from Hamburg were canceled. Pauli fans instead had to travel by car. The police, who initially wanted to receive away fans at Braunschweig central station, have withdrawn again.

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