A regional express had to be cleared near Berlin (symbol image) Photo: pla
From BZ/dpa
A regional train from Deutsche Bahn with several hundred passengers in Brandenburg has once again broken down on the open route.
According to a railway spokeswoman, the regional express was evacuated shortly before Schönfliess (Oberhavel district) on Tuesday, around 350 passengers were affected.
“Passengers were able to transfer to another train that was specially stopped for this purpose,” she said. The “Märkische Allgemeine” had previously reported.
It was initially unclear why the RE5 from Stralsund to Berlin-Südkreuz stopped shortly before 4 p.m. in high summer temperatures. The train was towed away, they said. The Schönfiß train station was temporarily closed due to the breakdown.
It was only on Sunday evening that a regional train from Deutsche Bahn with a few hundred passengers broke down in the heat near the Birkenwerder S-Bahn station (Oberhavel district). According to the railway, a technical defect in the overhead line was the reason for this.