General · 24 June 2026
German trains halted by nationwide IT outage
The outage left countless passengers stranded across Germany for over two and a half hours on Tuesday night. Deutsche Bahn, the national railway operator, confirmed a critical digital communication system, GSM-R, had failed. Technicians quickly fixed the issue, and services are now gradually getting back to normal after the widespread disruption.
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