A problem with a communications system forced Germany’s railway network to halt all trains late on Tuesday, leaving passengers stranded across the country.
Trains were held at stations and would-be travellers stood in long lines at information desks as they tried to figure out how to get to their destinations.
The main national railway operator, Deutsche Bahn, said shortly before 1 am local time — nearly two-and-a-half hours after it first reported the outage — that the problem had been resolved and service was resuming “step by step.”
The company said there was a nationwide problem with the GSM-R digital communication system, which is used for internal communication on the railway network.
It later said that the cause had been identified, but didn't specify what it was.
