The Deutsche Bahn will reduce in the next few days, your regional traffic is expected. The company is responding to the low number of passengers as a result of the Coronavirus-crisis, as a spokeswoman on Sunday said in Berlin. The number of trains will be progressively adjusted to the declining demand.
Previously, the "mirror" reported on the measures taken by the railway. Accordingly, the driving should be thinned out plans by Tuesday or Wednesday. Deutsche Bahn is recommended that travellers to check before you travel the travel connection. What is so far a company according to the bahn.de known:
Baden-Württemberg
The Ministry of transport in Stuttgart is due to a possible reduction of the regional transport offer in the contact with the railway. "We prepare ourselves, to reduce the offer, if not enough personnel is available," said a spokesman on Sunday. Of it
Tübingen - Stuttgart (Neckar-Alb-Bahn) affected: - individual regional Railways are omitted Tübingen - Herrenberg (Ammer valley railway) trains to Minute 47 Metzingen - Bad Urach (ermstal railway) omitted - set, rail replacement transport is usedBavaria
In the Southeast of Bavaria-rail will be starting on Monday, some of the amplifier trains on the route between Mühldorf and Munich.
At the gäuboden train in lower Bavaria, the holiday timetable applies.
The train service to Austria will set due to the closure of the Border starting on Monday: trains of the Meridian to Salzburg ends, therefore, prematurely in Freilassing, those to Kufstein in Kiefersfelden. From there, the trains are turning back in the direction of Munich.
S-Bahn in Munich: The DB information that will be as of Monday morning, the clock amplifier of the lines 2, 3, 4, and 8.
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The line of transport of the countries of track is restricted due to the setting of the cross-border train services from Vogtland railway and Trilex to the Czech Republic and Poland since Saturday:
From Zwickau and Plauen from the train, only to Zwotental and not until after the town of Kraslice in the Czech side. Passengers from Zwickau in the direction of Cheb can only drive to Bad Brambach. The Trilex between Dresden and Liberec departs yet to Zittau. The connection from Dresden to Zgorzelec ends in Görlitz and leads to Poland. For the operating on the route Seifhennersdorf-Zittau-Liberec, the holding points are in Germany.NRW
Cologne: From Wednesday, 18. March, will be driving the buses and trams of the Cologne transport companies according to an adjusted Saturday schedule. According to the new schedule on weekdays will be the trips before 4 PM and after 1 PM. On the tram lines 1, 7, and 18, there should be a morning "booster trips". The bus lines 124, 134, 171, 172, 173, and 179 are omitted, since there are alternative offers.regional traffic according to Plan
Away from the Connections to foreign countries, the railway followed in Berlin, Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania continue with the regular schedule. For other States, no current information was submitted. The article is updated on a regular basis.
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To Italy, Austria and Switzerland
EC Munich - Verona impaired not applicable EC-Frankfurt - Milan not applicable EC Munich - Zurich (Basel) not applicable IC Bus Munich - Zurich IC Stuttgart - Zurich between Singen and ZurichCzech Republic
EC (Kiel - ) Hamburg - Prague (Budapest) not applicable between Germany and Decin (Czech Republic) IC Bus Mannheim/Frankfurt to Prague not applicable IC Bus Leipzig to Prague not applicableDenmark
IC Hamburg - Copenhagen not applicable IC Hamburg - Aarhus voidPoland
EC Berlin - Warsaw void startnight trains
ÖBB Nightjet Munich - Venice/Milan/Rome and ends in Villach (Austria) ÖBB Nightjet Berlin - Zurich ÖBB Nightjet Hamburg - Zurich ÖBB Nightjet Berlin - Vienna not applicablesurf tip: Coronavirus outbreak in the News-Ticker
Why to be adjusted to the schedules?
The railway is not explained, we reduced the offer by itself. The company has been approached by individual operators, with possible range restrictions to cope with.
"to make The decision about the changes in schedules at the end of the customer," added a spokesman. The are in the rail-regional transport, the Federal States or public transport networks.
This remained unclear, where there may be trains to be cancelled and to what extent. Deutsche Bahn stated that the objective of the tasks carriers and railway operators is to "to provide with reliable services, a stable supply and the mobility in Germany to maintain."
ticket checks are eliminated - what does this mean?
The train conductors not more control in the regional trains, the tickets. This is done for the protection of passengers and staff, said the railway spokesperson. The conductor with the drive but is still in the trains.
travel cancel and move these possibilities now
advanced because of the exceptional location, the possibilities for customers to postpone your trip or cancel. "The goodwill rules apply in the coming weeks, therefore, it is not necessary to report it immediately," said the company. Refunds may also be submitted after the booked day of travel.
For all up to 13. March purchased Tickets with travel dates between 13. March, and 30. April could move passengers, your travel and the ticket up to 30. June flexible for the booked route. The discount saving prices and super saver prices for a specific train is cancelled.
also Possible is a transformation in travel vouchers: To to 13, according to the railway. March Tickets purchased for trips up to 30. April can be converted, therefore, free of charge in a travel voucher. This also applies to saver fares and super-saver prices. Applications for conversion to a travel voucher may also be sent to the booked day of travel.
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