{"id":42230,"date":"2026-06-23T23:57:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T23:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/42230\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T23:57:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T23:57:18","slug":"germany-rail-network-halted-nationwide-due-to-it-malfunction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/42230\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany rail network halted nationwide due to IT malfunction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">German rail company Deutsche Bahn had to pause its train services across the country due to a nationwide IT disruption on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">All its trains were held at stations following a malfunction with the country&#8217;s digital railway radio network, causing widespread disruption.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Deutsche Bahn later said the disruption had been fixed after trains were at a complete standstill for more than two-and-a-half hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Our IT experts worked tirelessly to resolve the issue \u2013 successfully. The disruption was quickly fixed, and service is now gradually resuming,&#8221; it said. &#8220;We thank all passengers for their patience,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At 22:30 local time (21:30 BST), Deutsche Bahn said a nationwide disruption of the Global System for Mobile Communication for Railways (GSM-R) meant that all trains were being held at stations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In a followup statement, Deutsche Bahn then said the cause of the disruption, which had affected internal communication channels, &#8220;has now been identified&#8221; and technicians were working &#8220;diligently to resolve the issue&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Passengers were urged to find alternative modes of transport with major delays and cancellations expected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At the time, Deutsche Bahn did not say how long the disruption could last or how many trains and passengers had been affected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Speaking to the German newspaper Bild earlier, Deutsche Bahn CEO Evelyn Palla said &#8220;we are now trying to get the trains into stations so that travellers can disembark&#8221;, according to Germany&#8217;s international broadcaster Deutsche Welle.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Passengers queue at the Deutsche Bahn service point in the arrivals hall at the main station in Bremen, Germany, 23 June 2026.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"680\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/98b1a04d61b368c93565fad12a988943.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Passengers queue at the Deutsche Bahn service point at the main station in Bremen, Germany, during the outage. [EPA]<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">GSM-R, which was at the centre of the disruption, is a wireless communication tool used between train drivers and traffic control centres.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Deutsche Bahn apologised to passengers for the situation, adding it would give taxi and hotel vouchers to affected passengers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It also said it would offer replacement transport where possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The national railway operator Deutsche Bahn provides both long-distance and regional transport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It also operates S-Bahn trains that connect suburbs with city centres, which came to a halt on Tuesday evening as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">S-Bahn Berlin issued a separate statement that said the outage to the GSMR &#8220;has been resolved&#8221;, and that &#8220;S-Bahn trains can run again&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Please still expect that there may be delays and train cancellations on lines&#8221;, it added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"German rail company Deutsche Bahn had to pause its train services across the country due to a nationwide&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11791,5],"class_list":["post-42230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-germany","tag-deutsche-bahn","tag-germany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}