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.
"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."
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.
Signalling still works, so you can let the trains continue to a safe place like a station and then not let them leave until the radio issue is resolved
The other article is only one sentence long. I guess the OP posted it and later found this that is a better source. (Un)luckily both reached the front page. Usually dang/tomhow will make a cleanup soon to avoid duplication and keep the discussion in a single thread.
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
Yes, and just yesterday a passenger train was routed into the path of a freight train due to some points failure. It does make you wonder. https://www.railmagazine.com/news/points-failure-results-in-...
Maybe. OP isn't saying it's necessarily malicious interference though.
The UK buys most of their trains from Deutsche Bahn (German Rail) and just brands them differently.
British person living in Berlin.
Incorrect. They wouldn't fit in the tiny UK loading gauge (profile). UK trains are indeed variants of continental models, but made to custom size.
Not a stretch to imagine that it is though. Germany has some very effective radical vandals who make statements by interrupting infrastructure.
There was a GSM-R outage in the UK last month ago too [0]
[0] https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/nationwide-gsmr-outage-...
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
AI vibes all the place!
"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
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.
A truly chaotic week in Europe, alongside the UK train crash and the unprecedented heat wave.
Downdetector shows parallel disruption spikes, similar pattern as end of last year, not as widespread yet.
https://downdetector.com
Mainly Meta Services, which seem to spike, isn't it? And Google Fiber
A bit more, traderepublic, tiktok, snapchat, X, AWS, CloudFlare
https://xn--allestrungen-9ib.de/en/
These could be based on different scales of numbers since it is midnight in Germany
Ah, now it's more obvious.. True! Thank you
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...
I wonder how they managed to tell trains to stop.
Deutsche Bahn trains stop themselves all the time, no need to tell them
Signalling still works, so you can let the trains continue to a safe place like a station and then not let them leave until the radio issue is resolved
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
I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out to be incompetence at this point.
vibe coding the rail software.
If you know anything at all about the Deutsche Bahn, you'll know that it's most likely self-sabotage, in other words, incompetence.
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48651552
and submitted by the same user sva_
https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=sva_
The other article is only one sentence long. I guess the OP posted it and later found this that is a better source. (Un)luckily both reached the front page. Usually dang/tomhow will make a cleanup soon to avoid duplication and keep the discussion in a single thread.
Gee I wonder which country could be behind it