Germany’s railway system was brought to a halt on Tuesday evening, leaving passengers stranded across the country following an IT issue.<\/p>\n
The main national railway operator, Deutsche Bahn, said all trains were held at stations because of a nationwide problem with a digital communication system.<\/p>\n
Nearly two-and-a-half hours after it first reported the outage, Deutsche Bahn said the problem had been resolved and its service was resuming “step by step”.<\/p>\n
It came after the company said there was a nationwide problem with the GSM-R (Global System for Mobile Communications-Railway) system.<\/p>\n
Not long after the outage, the company said it had identified the cause of the issue, but did not specify what it was.<\/p>\n
The system is used for internal communication on the railway network.<\/p>\n
Deutsche Bahn CEO Evelyn Palla was quoted by The Bild newspaper, saying they “were able to stabilise the situation with an emergency system”.<\/p>\n
During the outage, the company said \u200bit would issue taxi \u200band hotel vouchers to passengers \u2060and offer replacement transport where possible.<\/p>\n
It also apologised for the disruption.<\/p>\n
Train delays and disruption has become more common in Germany in recent years.<\/p>\n
Government-owned Deutsche Bahn has started conducting overhauls of major routes in a bid to improve its performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Germany’s railway system was brought to a halt on Tuesday evening, leaving passengers stranded across the country following…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1046102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5310],"tags":[54004,2000,299,1824,287680,79793],"class_list":["post-1046101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-germany","tag-deutsche-bahn","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-germany","tag-national-railway-operator","tag-railway-system"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116802524459723965","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046101","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=1046101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1046102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1046101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1046101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1046101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}