- If this weren’t Deutsche Bahn, I’d say it’s a cyber attack. Given that this is Deutsche Bahn, though, it may just as well be a maintenance issue.
by felooboolooomba
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- There was also a very peculiar train crash in the UK just a few days ago. A train hit a stationary train. That shouldn't really happen in this day and age. Sabotage was the first thing that came to my mind.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gy60gg6k5o
- "IT Outage: No train service nationwide. Due to a nationwide outage of the GSMR digital rail radio system, all trains are being held at stations. We are working around the clock to resolve the issue.
Our technicians are working around the clock to resolve the outage.
Please continue to check your travel connection immediately before departure using the travel information service at bahn.de, the DB Navigator app, or by calling the travel information hotline at 030/2970."
https://www.bahn.de/service/fahrplaene/aktuell
- Word on the german bahn reddit seems to be that a buggy software update is the cause. Remains to be seen if this is the real cause
- It's a GSM-R issue. See Tagesschau (German): https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/gesellschaft/deutsche-bahn-...
- The fallback for GSM-R is the normal GSM network, but according to informed guesses I've read, the handsets still need to authenticate using their GSM-R credentials (it's just normal GSM roaming), and that's failing too.
- It doesn’t surprise me at all. Deutsche Bahn got so bad in the recent years that Switzerland started turning some German trains around at Basel (border) to protect its own timetable from DB delays.
- Was left stranded in Berlin last night trying to get home to a neighboring city, which should have taken 45 minutes (more like 1h20 nowadays due to time tables and whole regional train lines being down for maintenance til EOY).
The lack of communication was probably the worst of all. Announcements saying to take alternative means of transport. The DB Navigator app insists that everything is still running and it was impossible to get clear info as to whether RE trains were also affected.
Eventually we took a Miles car home and because of this and past unreliability I'm, sadly, thinking about getting a car instead.
- Trains are being started up again (staggered because the current draw of so many accelerating trains could cause problems) since about 10 minutes past midnight, 30 minutes ago.
- For some reason, after reading the title of the article, I immediately thought the culprit was Emacs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33524683
- Any HNer blocked in a DB train who can share with us the experience?
- Same problem happened two years ago. You'd think that would be enough time to figure out a failsafe routine
by pulkitsh1234
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- Interesting, I just took an OBB train today from Zurich to Amsterdam, which passes through a lot of Germany.
- A truly chaotic week in Europe, alongside the UK train crash and the unprecedented heat wave.
by DanielleMolloy
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- Downdetector shows parallel disruption spikes, similar pattern as end of last year, not as widespread yet.
https://downdetector.com
by InTheArena
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- The jet lag team must be in Germany again. Sam, you being deuschbahnned?
by DanielleMolloy
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- Downdetector shows parallel disruption spikes, similar pattern as end of last year, not as widespread yet.
https://downdetector.com
- I wonder how they managed to tell trains to stop.
- Can passengers tell, I thought German trains were always disrupted!
- Anyone else watch Season 2 of Hijack?
- Is that news? Sounds like status quo.
- Is it just me or is the webpage broken with a redirect loop between:
* https://www.bluewin.ch/en/news/german-train-service-suspende...
* https://www.bluewin.ch/en/news/german-rail-service-suspended...
by ChrisArchitect
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- AP source: https://apnews.com/article/germany-trains-halted-communicati...
by usernametaken29
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- Honestly can’t tell the difference between this and a regular day r/dbsucks
- Happened before at a smaller scale, crazy high redundancies in GSM-R mean this is likely sabotage:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_2022_German_railway_at...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSM-R
by yanhangyhy
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- how did germany become this ? i think from my observations, in china, when talk about Germany, the #1 thing is the fucking stupid train system....
- Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48651552
by 3997531578
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by LargoLasskhyfv
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- It's the heat.
Some system somewhere in need of cooling.
Does not get it, because BAHN.
Crapping out.
Cascades of disbelief.
R2D2-like cybernetic seizures.
Endless commuter pleasures.
No mischief at all.
Just bad techno-thrall...
- Gee I wonder which country could be behind it
by moffkalast
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- It's either that or starlink, some railroads in Germany go through areas without any mobile network signal. Think about how crazy that is in 2026 when everything expects everyone to be online 24/7/365.
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