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Trains halted across Germany by communication system problem
AP News • • world
Key Points:
- Germany's national railway operator, Deutsche Bahn, halted all trains nationwide due to a failure in the GSM-R digital communication system used for internal railway communication.
- The issue was identified about 1.5 hours after the initial announcement, but the exact cause and resolution time remain unspecified.
- Deutsche Bahn is working to get trains into stations for passenger disembarkation and is offering taxi and hotel vouchers as well as access to trains at stations for waiting passengers.
- GSM-R is a standardized communication system across Europe, critical for operations such as communication between train drivers and control centers.
- Nationwide train stoppages in Germany are rare and previously occurred mainly due to storms, not technical failures.
