Stormchaos in Germany: rail traffic significantly impaired!

storm damage affects traffic on several railway lines in Germany. As lipewelle.de , the ICE route Hamburg-Berlin was blocked in the evening. In Dergenthin (Brandenburg) there is a tree in the track, which leads to the supports of the ICE trains. In Schleswig-Holstein there are also weather-related impairments that result in travel time extensions of up to 90 minutes.

The Regional Express Re6 (Hamburg-Altona-Westerland (Sylt)) currently runs at a reduced speed until 6 a.m. on Tuesday morning. Other regional train connections in the north cannot drive your entire route. In North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony, too, there are impairments in local and regional traffic due to storm damage where trees are on the tracks. Zuginfo.nrw also reports weather-related impairments due to storm gusts in parts of North Rhine-Westphalia that lead to delays as well as partial and complete failures in local transport

Restoration of long -distance transport

In the meantime, the long-distance traffic of the Deutsche Bahn is again predominantly normal according to the storm impairments, such as Zeit.de However, there are still large delays of around 75 minutes between Nuremberg and Erfurt. Most storm -related impairments were remedied at night, but a storm on Monday evening had a significant impact, so some ICEs were late.

Regions such as Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate, Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony were affected. The storm not only led to considerable damage, but also to injured in several communities. In Bottrop, a 19-year-old was injured by a falling tree, and in Hattingen a man in the garden suffered injuries from a falling tree. In Cologne, a bus from Cologne's traffic operations was damaged by a fallen tree; The driver came to the hospital with minor injuries.

In Bavaria, three people in Aquaplaning suffered serious injuries in Bavaria when the car overturned. The driver had lost control on wet roads. In the Rhine-Neckar area there were numerous operations by the police and fire brigade, while the fire brigades in Hesse had many missions due to gusts of wind. In Rhineland-Palatinate, ten cars were damaged by falling trees or objects, and electricity and telephone lines were also affected, which led to short-term interruptions.

For Tuesday, the German Weather Service (DWD) warns of local rain and light snowfall above 1,000 meters. In addition, it can be locally smooth above 800 meters.