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hdgvhicv
Can passengers tell, I thought German trains were always disrupted!
moffkalast
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.
mmoll
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.
rurban
Well, it was a *planned* update of a central system component in their radio. That's why the restauration took only 8 hours. Their 90 min excuse is bonkers. Unplanned it would have taken much longer. Can confirm that their update planning process is abyssal. Half a year for the first simple reply. Comparable only to HP
raverbashing
Someone needs to restart some Windows NT 4.0 machine in some cabinet somewhere
ratio53
I wonder how they managed to tell trains to stop.
modinfo
"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

dgellow
Any HNer blocked in a DB train who can share with us the experience?
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ripbozo
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
rurban
A planned major update to align with other countries platforms, which other countries did estimate to need 9 years for. So they did have plenty of time to test that update, as well as preparing a fast fallback, in case of not-working.
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Havoc
Gee I wonder which country could be behind it
usernametaken29
Honestly can’t tell the difference between this and a regular day r/dbsucks
mfiro
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.
gpvos
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.
_def
Same problem happened two years ago. You'd think that would be enough time to figure out a failsafe routine
pulkitsh1234
Interesting, I just took an OBB train today from Zurich to Amsterdam, which passes through a lot of Germany.
puttycat
A truly chaotic week in Europe, alongside the UK train crash and the unprecedented heat wave.