BERLIN: All trains in Germany were “immobilized at stations” on Tuesday evening due to a breakdown in the railway radio communication systems, national rail operator Deutsche Bahn said.
After decades of underinvestment which have led to trains often running late, Germany is trying to rapidly modernize its aging rail network with massive public investment.
“Our technicians are working flat out to resolve this disruption,” Deutsche Bahn said on its website, without specifying how long it would last.
In the north, trains are “completely at a standstill, because railway radio is down on a large scale,” the private regional rail company Metropol said.
“We think that nothing else will be running tonight,” Metronom spokesman Simon Martens told AFP.
