{"id":1045812,"date":"2026-06-23T22:27:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T22:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1045812\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T22:27:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T22:27:17","slug":"trains-halted-across-germany-by-communication-system-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1045812\/","title":{"rendered":"Trains halted across Germany by communication system problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN (AP) \u2014 A problem with a communications system forced <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/germany\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Germany\u2019s<\/a> railway system to halt all trains late Tuesday, leaving passengers stranded across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The main national railway operator, Deutsche Bahn, said all trains were being held at stations because of a nationwide problem with the GSM-R digital communication system, which is used for internal communication on the railway network.<\/p>\n<p>Deutsche Bahn said in a statement at midnight, 1 1\/2 hours after it first announced the problem, that the cause had been identified, but didn\u2019t specify what it was. It said that technicians \u201care working intensively on a solution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It didn\u2019t specify how long that might take or say how many trains or passengers were affected.<\/p>\n<p>The Bild newspaper quoted Deutsche Bahn CEO Evelyn Palla as saying that \u201cwe are now trying to get the trains into stations so that travelers can disembark.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The company said it would give taxi and hotel vouchers to passengers and, where possible, make available trains at stations for travelers to sit in. It apologized for the situation.<\/p>\n<p>GSM-R, short for Global System for Mobile Communications\u2013Railway, offers voice and data services needed to operate railways, including communication between train drivers and control centers. <\/p>\n<p>According to the European Union Agency for Railways, it has been introduced across Europe since 2000 as a common standard for railway operations.<\/p>\n<p>The German railway system has on rare occasions in the past halted all or most trains, but because of storms rather than for technical reasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERLIN (AP) \u2014 A problem with a communications system forced Germany\u2019s railway system to halt all trains late&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1045813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5310],"tags":[51,2000,299,287653,4179,1824,16651,263],"class_list":["post-1045812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-germany","tag-business","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-evelyn-palla","tag-general-news","tag-germany","tag-transportation","tag-world-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116801781530600692","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1045812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1045813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1045812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1045812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}